What is it 2

[52D]

OK lets make this forum for locos as there is already a guess the station thread.

[giner]

Spot on, 52D! Two coconuts at Xmas - I've got a luvverly bunch of 'em. Thanks for the pic, too.

CVR1865: Yes, it could have helped if I'd said it was a loco. I guess 52D was a bit quick for all of us. I knew he wasn't just a pretty face.

[CVR1865]

right you are then, Colombo, 52D? sort out your batting order and the next one up to the plate please...

[Colombo]

This is a steam locomotive.

1. 11.00.11.11.18
2. Supplier of a comestible whose name derives from the Portuguese for Quince Jelly.
3. Johann Wyss's story of a lost family.
4. Withdrawn in 1947.

Louis

[52D]

Robinsons GCR war memorial loco Valour? My question is a loco. The question is English chocolate American beer.

[Colombo]

That was clearly far too easy,

Colombo

[John B]

Here's another little teaser!

1. LNER number sum is 14

2. Engine class - an olde stagecoach road

3. Named after the first part of a two part name of a Leicestershire town. The town is
famous for two culinary delights to which suitable accompaniaments would be pickled
onions on the one hand and a glass of port on the other.

[52D]

Too easy that one i often pass through the town, Melton. I find the pork pies odious but am fond of the cheese actually named after a place in Cambridgeshire but served to travellers on the Great North Road. I think both foods have protected status only being able to be made within a certain distance of the town.

[giner]

A location: (as it was in steam days)

Come up from below and join the down slow
There's a box between tracks just by here, doncha know?
Then up ahead, water that's softened, not hard
And off to the right, going north, there's a yard

Clue (like you lot need one ) it's on the ECML

[John B]

Well done 52D, indeed it was far too easy.

Melton is also the name of a dormitory village west of Hull and is right next to another very pretty little village called Welton. In Welton lies the Green Dragon pub - famed for its connection with the arrest of Dick Turpin (Alias John Palmer) and being the place where I ordered and drank my first pint of beer in a pub -I was fourteen years old.

Happy days

[John B]

Giner, - give us another clue?

[giner]

Okey dokey, then . . .

A couple of miles south of the first stop out of Kings Cross for some expresses nowadays - though it never used to be.

There, that's probably given it away. So, no oranges at Christmas (or coconuts, 52D, if you're watching )

[R. pike]

giner wrote..

A location: (as it was in steam days)

Come up from below and join the down slow
There's a box between tracks just by here, doncha know?
Then up ahead, water that's softened, not hard
And off to the right, going north, there's a yard

Clue (like you lot need one ) it's on the ECML

I'm not sure if if i follow the thread correctly but this does sound like Langley.

http://richard2890.fotopic.net/p55247219.html

Sorry about the dye line copy but that's all i can find, look at it full size and it's just about readable.. It even mentions the water softener.

[giner]

Good job, there, Mr. Pike! Pretty swift answer.

Come up from below and join the down slow - (The down line from the Hertford Loop, which passes under the main lines prior to this point)
There's a box between tracks just by here, doncha know? - (Langley Box - always good for a cuppa with "Dubber" when he was on)
Then up ahead, water that's softened, not hard - (Langley Troughs, of course, water softened courtesy of an ex-Caledonian Railway tender - the local water being very chalky)
And off to the right, going north, there's a yard - (Between the up slow and the old Great North Road there were sidings and a coal merchant's office)


Yes, too bad about the dyeline, I'd love to see a clear diagram of that spot. It's been a few years.

I wonder if anyone can clue us in on which loco that ex-CR tender belonged to. Something about it being a named loco of C5(?) class? Anyway, it must have been a bit of a job hauling it up the embankment which is pretty steep at that point.

[Bill Bedford]

I wonder if anyone can clue us in on which loco that ex-CR tender belonged to. Something about it being a named loco of C5(?) class?

NBR C11 9875 Midlothian, intended for preservation, but WW2 intervened