History Challenge & Journal

[Siani]

What & where?

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[dtaai-maai]

Kalbow - not Cary Grant then?

Edit: Sianai - according to the caption on the postcard, it's the Mumbles pier...

[Siani]

Kalbow - not Cary Grant then?

Edit: Sianai - according to the caption on the postcard, it's the Mumbles pier...

Silly me...did not notice that shame because it is quite historical. Why they got rid of such a historical thing I will never understand as it was the world's first passenger railway service.

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the world's first passenger railway service, located in Swansea, Wales.

Originally built under an Act of Parliament of 1804 to move limestone from the quarries of Mumbles to Swansea and to the markets beyond, it carried the world's first fare-paying railway passengers on the day the British Parliament abolished the transportation of slaves from Africa. It later moved from horse power to steam locomotion, and finally converted to electric trams, before closing in January 1960, in favour of motor buses.

At the time of the railway's closure, it had been the world's longest serving railway and it still holds the record for the highest number of forms of traction of any railway in the world - horse-drawn, sail power, steam power, electric power, petrol and diesel.

[Siani]

Quick train history..what is it called? What line did it serve on?

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[dtaai-maai]

That looks a bit like the Orient Express, if I remember correctly..., used to run to Dover Western Docks

[Siani]

That looks a bit like the Orient Express, if I remember correctly..., used to run to Dover Western Docks

Nope...close but wrong side of the country

[kalbow]

DM, go to the top of the class!!

Paul Dirac - quantum physicist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1933 with Erwin Schrodinger (of the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment fame) for atomic theories.

He was a student of the Bishop Road Primary School in Bristol which was also attended by Cary Grant (Archie Leach).

[dtaai-maai]

That looks a bit like the Orient Express, if I remember correctly..., used to run to Dover Western Docks

Nope...close but wrong side of the country

Southampton, then...?

[Siani]

That looks a bit like the Orient Express, if I remember correctly..., used to run to Dover Western Docks

Nope...close but wrong side of the country

Southampton, then...?

Close the train passed through there..name that train

[dtaai-maai]

Pullman? - but I ain't got time to start checking properly now!

[STEVE G]

Is it the Devon Belle, Waterloo to Plymouth?

[Siani]

Is it the Devon Belle, Waterloo to Plymouth?

Nope to far west

[Big Boy]

How about the Bournemouth Belle?

[richard]

Paddington to the races at (?) via Reading

[STEVE G]

How about the Bournemouth Belle?

Two hours and nine minutes from Waterloo to Bournemouth in 1933!