| Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 07:32, 1st December 2023 |     |
1st December - welcome to the Great Western Coffee Shop Forum's advent quiz.
Each day, a new set of questions - plan is for there to be four every day - and they'll be vaguely on topic and with some commonality. Questions will typically be posted in the morning, but no guarantee of time; in due course I'll come back and confirm the answers, though frankly most will be easy, or obvious once someone has pointed them out.
Please have a go at just one question each, and you might like to have a go and work out the link too. Should anything be left unanswered at midnight, please feel free to fill in all of the rest.
Where are these, and what is the 1st December common link between them?
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2.
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4.
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by ellendune at 12:18, 1st December 2023 | |
From the background I would say that 1 is the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Station at Temple Meads.
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 12:28, 1st December 2023 | |
From the background I would say that 1 is the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Station at Temple Meads.
A brave try - it's annotated to me as being somewhere completely different, though I'm ver much aware that old prints can get mislabelled. I have been around a long time, but this picture predates my memory ... any other offers?
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by Oxonhutch at 12:34, 1st December 2023 | |
2: Volk's Electric Railway
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 18:14, 1st December 2023 | |
No. 2 is, correctly, identified as the Volks Electric Railway. No. 1 is NOT Bristol and no-one has answered (nor guessed) pictures 3 or 4, nor the connection.
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by stuving at 19:12, 1st December 2023 | |
3. is GWR 3440 City of Truro, running in preservation. A modern picture (2009) presumably decolourised to disguise its modernity. What it has to do with St. Andrew's Hangover Day I've no idea.
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 19:28, 1st December 2023 | |
3. is GWR 3440 City of Truro, running in preservation. A modern picture (2009) presumably decolourised to disguise its modernity. What it has to do with St. Andrew's Hangover Day I've no idea.
It is indeed City of Truro ... so what's true of the City of Truro and the Volk Electric Railway and those the pictures od [[woops - nearly gave them away]]
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by Western Pathfinder at 19:50, 1st December 2023 | |
No1 Taunton just to get it out of the way !...
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 20:10, 1st December 2023 | |
No1 Taunton just to get it out of the way !...
No - that comes up later in the month.
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by ray951 at 20:36, 1st December 2023 | |
No 1 is Euston and is No 4 some sort of battery electric tram?
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by PrestburyRoad at 20:39, 1st December 2023 | |
4. Prototype Drumm battery train in the Irish Republic. It looks to have a lot of batteries under the floor.
It makes me think of the battery train that is being developed for GWR's Greenford Branch, based on D stock retired from the London Underground.
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 21:21, 1st December 2023 | |
No 1 is Euston and is No 4 some sort of battery electric tram?
4. Prototype Drumm battery train in the Irish Republic. It looks to have a lot of batteries under the floor.
It makes me think of the battery train that is being developed for GWR's Greenford Branch, based on D stock retired from the London Underground.
It makes me think of the battery train that is being developed for GWR's Greenford Branch, based on D stock retired from the London Underground.
Indeed - and even today battery trains are emerging technology. So what links Euston, the Volks Electric Railway, the City of Truro and the Drumm Battery train?
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by Merthyr Imp at 22:08, 1st December 2023 | |
The connection is that they are all firsts:
(approximately):
1. The first main line London terminus
2. The first electric railway
3. The first to reach 100mph
4. The first battery-powered train
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 22:15, 1st December 2023 | |
The connection is that they are all firsts:
(approximately):
1. The first main line London terminus
2. The first electric railway
3. The first to reach 100mph
4. The first battery-powered train
(approximately):
1. The first main line London terminus
2. The first electric railway
3. The first to reach 100mph
4. The first battery-powered train
Spot on - and of course it's the FIRST of the month today!
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by Merthyr Imp at 22:45, 1st December 2023 | |
Thanks.
Can I pre-empt tomorrow and say the second to reach 100mph was Flying Scotsman?
| Re: Advent Quiz, December 2023, Introduction and day 1 (1st December) Posted by grahame at 07:36, 2nd December 2023 | |
Thanks.
Can I pre-empt tomorrow and say the second to reach 100mph was Flying Scotsman?
Can I pre-empt tomorrow and say the second to reach 100mph was Flying Scotsman?
You can, but that's not one of the questions.
