AQ11 - trivia questions in our region

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Some trivia questions - how many can you answer? Just tell me how many - go ahead and follow up with an answer each too if you wish

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train

* Two GWR operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket

* Engineering feature over 7000 metres long and carrying a main line

* Over 500 metres long and carrying a Community Rail line over a river

* A journey on which the last through service leaves at 05:44, a journey on which the last through service leaves at 07:11, and a journey on which the last through service leaves at 07:21 (though not today  )

* A station which was built in 1850, but did not see its first train until 1857

* A railway that was standard gauge for the first 20 years after it opened, then dual gauge, then back to standard gauge.

* Standard gauge is 4'8.5" - but where in the west was there a railway with a 4'6" gauge

* Passenger services started on 25th March 1807 and ceased on 5th January 1960

* Closed 7th September 1964 and re-opening, perhaps, on 12th September 2027

[ray951]

**Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train:

Banbury, Basingstoke and Gatwick Airport. - Although I guess technically they are not GWR stations but stations GWR use and you can leave them in other directions with other TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s. Maybe need to think again

[Oxonhutch]

*Engineering feature over 7000 metres long and carrying a main line.

Severn Tunnel, 7008m

[grahame]

**Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train:

Banbury, Basingstoke and Gatwick Airport. - Although I guess technically they are not GWR stations but stations GWR use and you can leave them in other directions with other TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s. Maybe need to think again

Ah, shows the great danger of trying to write quiz questions.   All three of these you can leave from either end of the station having got on to a passenger train / agreed that the dark green GWR things only go from one end, but there are other train operators around ;-)

Reading the question back, I was looking in our region - to avoid answers such as "Fort William".

[froome]

**Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train:

Banbury, Basingstoke and Gatwick Airport. - Although I guess technically they are not GWR stations but stations GWR use and you can leave them in other directions with other TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s. Maybe need to think again

Ah, shows the great danger of trying to write quiz questions.   All three of these you can leave from either end of the station having got on to a passenger train / agreed that the dark green GWR things only go from one end, but there are other train operators around ;-)

Reading the question back, I was looking in our region - to avoid answers such as "Fort William".

Ah, I think that rules out my suggestion for one of the stations, which is Pilning, which I believe you can only travel in one direction from? (towards Bristol)



Edit note: Quote mark adjusted, for clarity. CfN

[old original]

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train

I reckon....

Bourne End
Bere Alston
Coombe Junction

[ray951]

**Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train:

Banbury, Basingstoke and Gatwick Airport. - Although I guess technically they are not GWR stations but stations GWR use and you can leave them in other directions with other TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s. Maybe need to think again

Ah, shows the great danger of trying to write quiz questions.   All three of these you can leave from either end of the station having got on to a passenger train / agreed that the dark green GWR things only go from one end, but there are other train operators around ;-)

Reading the question back, I was looking in our region - to avoid answers such as "Fort William".

2nd attempt - Coombe Junction Halt, Bere Alston, Okehampton. Is Okehampton a terminus and if it isn't what about Carmarthen? Maybe i am thinking to hard 

[grahame]

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train

I reckon....

Bourne End
Bere Alston
Coombe Junction

Yes, and oh my goodness I had forgotten one of them.  There is a fourth (at least) ...

2nd attempt - Coombe Junction Halt, Bere Alston, Okehampton. Is Okehampton a terminus and if it isn't what about Carmarthen? Maybe i am thinking to hard 

Sadly, Okehampton IS a terminus at present - just like you can no longer carry on from Barnstaple.  I will give you Carmarthen though - and I still have one more that's a bit different.

[Mark A]

Is Okehampton a terminus and if it isn't what about Carmarthen? Maybe i am thinking to hard 

Not thinking too hard. Okehampton's a temporary terminus. (And Carmarthen's a disgrace).

Mark

[eightonedee]

Does Swansea fit this?

[old original]

Pedant alert...

Aren't Carmarthen and Swansea TfW stations?

[Western Pathfinder]

Of course there is allways Pilning which you can only leave in one direction.

[grahame]

Of course there is allways Pilning which you can only leave in one direction.

Yep, that was the other one I had

[PrestburyRoad]

* Two GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket

I'll guess Heath High Level and Heath Low Level.  I know that you can't buy a ticket between Catford and Catford Bridge (Geoff Marshall made a video about this), and the Heaths are similarly close to each other.
[Edit: probably the wrong answer because they are probably TfW rather than GWR, doh]

[eightonedee]

* Over 500 metres long and carrying a Community Rail line over a river

Is this the brick arch viaduct (with bridge at one end) carrying the Slough to Windsor line across the Thames and meadows to the north?