Random questions - 24 July 2022

[whole diary]

[grahame]

1a. Where was I the other day?
1b. When will the platform be opened



2. What have the following in common?

All lines in Cornwall, including all branch lines
All branch lines in Devon (Barnstaple, Exmouth, Paignton, Okehampton)
South Wales main line (Carmarthen/Swansea–Cardiff Central)
Berks & Hants line (Reading–Taunton via Castle Cary)
Wessex main line (Bath Spa–Portsmouth Harbour)
Heart of Wessex line (Westbury–Weymouth)
TransWilts line (Swindon–Westbury via Melksham)
Severn Beach line (Bristol Temple Meads–Severn Beach)
North Cotswolds line (Hereford/Worcester–Oxford)
South Cotswolds line (Cheltenham Spa–Swindon)
Worcester/Gloucester–Bristol
Greenford branch line
North Downs line (Reading–Gatwick Airport)
South Coast (Westbury–Southampton/Portmouth Harbour)

3. What and where is this?



4. What have the following in common?

Bristol Temple Meads-London Paddington
Bristol Temple Meads-Cardiff Central
Reading to Oxford
Reading to Basingstoke

5. Where is this?

[CyclingSid]

2.  No OLE^▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE")?

[eightonedee]

4. Routes that were due to be equipped with OHL^▸ (Over-Head Line) electric but where the scheme was curtailed before completion. P

[grahame]

2.  No OLE^▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE")?

4. Routes that were due to be equipped with OHL^▸ (Over-Head Line) electric but where the scheme was curtailed before completion. P

Both good thoughts but not what I had in mind, which is much more immediate.   I should add to both lists "and only these lines / route" - both are intended to be complete lists within the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) operational area, and there is something of a similarity (though opposite) in the two lists.

[old original]

4 - Only lines with a service on the ASLEF^» (Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen - about) strike day (makes the answer to no 2 a bit easier!)

[stuving]

5 is, of course, Melksham. Or within 9 minutes of there, anyway.