Combo quiz - one of each type - 22nd Dec 2020

[whole diary]

[grahame]

You are so close - just a shilling from the bullseye!

Then I shall revise it for Penychain - the Butlin's holiday camp east of Pwllheli

And be correct - 5p off each fare, and a few minutes off the journeys

Oh, and as 15 is a binary question, I am going for 'something else'.

You are correct, it is something else!

Reminds me of someone coming up and saying "Can I ask you a question" and me answering "You just have done, so it appears you can".

[Oxonhutch]

Reminds me of the programming specialist who was sent out by his partner to get a litre of milk.

"... oh and by the way, if they have eggs, please get me a dozen".

He arrives home with twelve litres of milk.

"What the actual !?", she asks ...

"They had eggs"

[CyclingSid]

I assume that 6 is from the OPNVKarte layer of OpenStreet Map. Not sure how I would query the non-British road numbers to narrow it down.

[grahame]

I assume that 6 is from the OPNVKarte layer of OpenStreet Map. Not sure how I would query the non-British road numbers to narrow it down.

Christmas is a festive in the far, far, far north and this is a festive quiz.  If you start looking at the very top, it shouldn't take long.

[eightonedee]

Ok - here's the answer to the most obscure of these (no6) - it's that well-known Finnish settlement of Yllasjokisuu (don't ask me to pronounce that). Possibly it's a Santa experience destination.

Really obscure fact to give you - both Finnish Highway no 21 and the railway shown start at their southern end in Tornio (I have actually been there!), which is twinned with our very own Devizes - is there an extra mince pie for that !

[Sulis John]

Is number 15 what is currently the Tier 4 Lorry Park? (with the Southeast London suburbs at the top left and the green blob at the bottom right being Dover Priory)


John

[stuving]

Or how about ... No. 15: Lincolnshire?

And what does blob size/colour represent? Presumably it's station usage figures, though I guess some other readily available per-station dataset might have been involved.

[eightonedee]

I was intrigued by Grahame apparently choosing a station in Finland with no apparent claim to fame. Further investigation on Google and Google maps reveals that the station is Kolari station - the northern-most in Finland. The main town of Kolari lies a little to the south-east. It does not look like a terminus because the railway continues north, then divides with both branches ending up at what appear to be quarries.

So I think the answer Grahame is looking for is "Kolari".

[stuving]

Or how about ... No. 15: Lincolnshire?

And what does blob size/colour represent? Presumably it's station usage figures, though I guess some other readily available per-station dataset might have been involved.

For those without a map of Lincolnshire in front of them (or a very good visual memory):
 Skegness is on the far right, with its tail of station curving up to the prettily-named Thorpe Culvert.
 That line goes to Boston, next big blob to the south-west.
 Upper right is Grimsby/Cleethorpes, with a diagonal line leading south-west via Lincolo, Newark, Nottingham.
 And west from Grimsby is via Barnetby, Scunthorpe, and into Yorkshire via Doncaster.

So yes, a bit more than just Lincolnshire.

[grahame]

Ok - here's the answer to the most obscure of these (no6) - it's that well-known Finnish settlement of  Yllasjokisuu (don't ask me to pronounce that). Possibly it's a Santa experience destination.

Really obscure fact to give you - both Finnish Highway no 21 and the railway shown start at their southern end in Tornio (I have actually been there!), which is twinned with our very own Devizes - is there an extra mince pie for that !

I was intrigued by Grahame apparently choosing a station in Finland with no apparent claim to fame. Further investigation on Google and Google maps reveals that the station is Kolari station - the northern-most in Finland. The main town of Kolari lies a little to the south-east. It does not look like a terminus because the railway continues north, then divides with both branches ending up at what appear to be quarries.

So I think the answer Grahame is looking for is "Kolari".

"Kolari" was what I was looking for; "Yllasjokisuu" is also correct - I looked that up soon after you posted it but then spent many interving hours in an online conference (yes, really, Christmas Eve!) before getting back here.

Kolari was an early "Save the Train" comparator being - as far as I could tell - just one of two railway stations in Europe who's train service called eniirely in the dark during the winter.  The other (after December 2006 service decimation) was Melksham ...

[grahame]

Or how about ... No. 15: Lincolnshire?

And what does blob size/colour represent? Presumably it's station usage figures, though I guess some other readily available per-station dataset might have been involved.

For those without a map of Lincolnshire in front of them (or a very good visual memory):
 Skegness is on the far right, with its tail of station curving up to the prettily-named Thorpe Culvert.
 That line goes to Boston, next big blob to the south-west.
 Upper right is Grimsby/Cleethorpes, with a diagonal line leading south-west via Lincolo, Newark, Nottingham.
 And west from Grimsby is via Barnetby, Scunthorpe, and into Yorkshire via Doncaster.

So yes, a bit more than just Lincolnshire.

Part of http://new.passenger.chat/map/_DFBGABBCAA.jpg ...  from within http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html when certain of the options at the base of the map (to change map and features) are selected. Labelling major stations is in the next phase of work on this

Surprising how similar it can look to Kent, though, with the big conglomeration in the top left corner for London (as opposed to West Yorkshire) to that was a good guess!

[grahame]

Here's the solution to the final question - the timetable



"Incredibly", the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway ran a passenger service all year to bring people who lived in Eskdale to Ravenglass for work and perhaps education ... but then, why not - it should not be incredible.  I think there was a school train on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch too and both have me asking "if the tiny trains can do it, why not certain standard gauge lines".

[TonyN]

I can now vagley remember having seen something in Railway mag about school trains on the Ratty.

Is this from the all line timetable and what year is the timetable from?

[grahame]

I can now vagley remember having seen something in Railway mag about school trains on the Ratty.

Is this from the all line timetable and what year is the timetable from?

ABC Rail Guide, October, 1967. A fascinating document (to me, though perhaps not to other!!). Two pages of minor railways showing the embryo of the heritage rail movement, and the final one that ran under a British Rail flag.

[TonyN]

Thanks for that
Amazing to see the Bluebell where running at weekends in November that early on.

The BEA advert on the front cover also brings back memories of my school trip to Heathrow in 1967. Through Hymek hauled school charter train from Cheltenham Malvern road to Windsor Central.