AQ22 - Research needed?

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Here are 11 questions. You will know some right off but others you will need to research.  How many do you know straight off?   Can you fill in the rest of the answers by research?  Which are difficult?   I will give complete answers in 24 hours

1. What did Bobbie Waterbury do at the end of the 1970 film "The Railway Children"?

2. Who were Ann Wood and Johnnie Jordan and what did they start that links them in railway history?

3. We have a number of stations that have expanded to have a platform 0 - but can you name a station where the platform numbers start at 3?

4. What is the quote at the bottom of the memorial tablet in Salisbury Cathedral honouring those who died in the 1 July 1906 Salisbury rail crash?

5. The investigators disagreed on the cause of the crash. Wxxxx insisted that it was caused by speeding; Kxxxxxxxx blamed rotten wooden sleepers, whilst Kxxx shifted the blame onto the railroad, exonerating state officials.

6. What colour are the socks that are embrodered with the image of Isambard Kingdom Brunel that are currently available for sale at a museum in Rotherhithe?

7. GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) has listed its "10 Must-Do London Activities" to get you into the holiday spirit. What is the top suggestion?

8. What links 1788, 1929 and 1973?

9. What is being honoured by this quote?  "Proving its resilience to later generations, this was surely a great tribute to Brunel's design."

10. Which of the cardinal points of the Great British Rail network is not a terminal?

11. 161, 163, 165, 180 and perhaps 529 - what have they in common in railway terms?

[old original]

Straight off....  1,  and that was no1.
might be back later...

[Western Pathfinder]

4. In the midst of life we are in death
Of whom may we seek for sucker
But of thee. O Lord.

[PrestburyRoad]

Without looking things up there is only one that I think I know.
8. Financial crashes.

[Western Pathfinder]

2 they were both pilots who flew aircraft beneath the Seven rail bridge.

[eightonedee]

9 - The Maidenhead railway bridge?

[Red Squirrel]

4. In the midst of life we are in death
Of whom may we seek for sucker
But of thee. O Lord.

A slightly unfortunate typo for those who believe. The intended word is ‘succour’.

[rogerpatenall]

10  - the most westerly

[Red Squirrel]

8. Peckett No.1788, built in 1929, worked at Kilmersdon Colliery until it closed in 1973.

[AMLAG]

3. Okehampton’s only connected and operational platform is No.3, the former Up main platform.
The tracks of the former and still signed plats 1 and 2, looked after by the small band of station friends, stretch west into the overgrowing wilderness of hope and despair.

[plymothian]

3. Okehampton’s only connected and operational platform is No.3, the former Up main platform.
The tracks of the former and still signed plats 1 and 2, looked after by the small band of station friends, stretch west into the overgrowing wilderness of hope and despair.

See also: Plymouth

[stuving]

3. Okehampton’s only connected and operational platform is No.3, the former Up main platform.
The tracks of the former and still signed plats 1 and 2, looked after by the small band of station friends, stretch west into the overgrowing wilderness of hope and despair.

See also: Plymouth

Also add Shrewsbury - but not, now, Lincoln; it's been renumbered.

[Kempis]

10  - the most westerly

I was thinking the most northerly.

[Chris from Nailsea]

8. Peckett No.1788, built in 1929, worked at Kilmersdon Colliery until it closed in 1973.

I think you're just showing off. 

[grahame]

8. Peckett No.1788, built in 1929, worked at Kilmersdon Colliery until it closed in 1973.

I think you're just showing off. 

That IS an impressive answer - I thought that question was one of the more difficult!