Tag Picture Quiz

[Jon Heptonstall]

It's one of the two Centurion BARVs taken by the LPDs Fearless and Intrepid,coming ashore on Blue beach one.
Back to you Tim.
Jon.

 

[Jakko]

Is that a centurion BARV?

Beaten to it

 

[Tim Marlow]

Recognised the BARV bit, but had to look up the donor chassis....
OK then, back to locos.....

What is this photographic grey one-off beauty and what was its only duty for over thirty five years....

 

[Jakko]

Is this Midland Railway No 2290 (later LMS 22290 and BR 58100), AKA “Big Bertha” or “Big Emma”? If so, it was a banker (a locomotive used to push trains up a steep incline).

 

[Tim Marlow]

Pretty much there Jakko. The loco is correct, but it was built for use on one incline only...and that is why it was built, so which incline?

 

[Jakko]

You mean I should go back to the Wikipedia page I got the above from? I think it was someplace called something like Linkley Incline, but let me check … Ah:

Banking on the Lickey Incline
The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain. The function of a banker is to provide extra power on steep inclines by being added to the rear of other trains.[1] Bankers were also used to protect against wagons or coaches breaking away, in which case they might run in front of a train going downhill. They largely went out of use with the introduction of advanced braking systems and diesel and electric locomotives, although banking on the Lickey Incline continues into 2010 with a pool of specialised Class 66 diesel-electric locomotives being used for the task.

Lickey Incline, apparently.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Well it was known as the Lickey banker, and banking trains up the Lickey incline was its only duty for its entire working life. It wasn’t a general banking engine. You had only answered part of the question....now you have it all, so over to you.....

 

[Jakko]

Another aircraft that I’d like the correct designation of:

 

[Lee W]

Pacer six program 1990-98 QF106 drone conversion

Lee

 

[Jakko]

That was faster than I thought Maybe I should have used a pic without the orange tail after all.

Your turn again, Lee!

 

[Lee W]

Thanks Jakko...

What is this thing?



Lee

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hunting Percival P74....you left the number on LOL

 

[Tim Marlow]

That’s it at Luton airport, tethered for testing....neve4 got completed...

 

[Lee W]

Your go Tim

Lee

 

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry about that....really copter by the way......
More engines.....
What has this front end......

 

[Lee W]

W1 1000 hush hush

Lee

 

[Tim Marlow]

Spot on Lee, forunner of the Mallard etc....
Here is the full shot....
Handsome beast with a weird wheel arrangement of 4-6-4....
Over to you then.....

 

[Lee W]

Thanks Tim

I'm lead to believe that the W stands for war office!?... that's what I was told, i know Jack about trains!

Ok on to something... bizarre! What's this ugly duckling?



Lee

 

[Tim Marlow]

Not war office as far as I know Lee, it was an experimental type using a marine Yarrow boiler, built in the thirties. Not all that successful in that form, it was rebuilt with a conventional boiler just before the war and lasted pretty much until the end of the fifties....
Not sure about your ugly bug though....not even sure if that’s the front or the back LOL

 

[Lee W]

Not war office as far as I know Lee, it was an experimental type using a marine Yarrow boiler, built in the thirties. Not all that successful in that form, it was rebuilt with a conventional boiler just before the war and lasted pretty much until the end of the fifties....
Not sure about your ugly bug though....not even sure if that’s the front or the back LOL

I was just going by what someone said at work... guess they're not that much of a spotter then! Lol

as for the ugly bug... that's the minging front end!

Lee