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For several years running so much was going on in the run up to Christmas that there was no space or time for more than a hasty ‘Thanks for all your feedback and encouragement, seasons greetings, more of the same next month'.
But this year, Cinders, there will be a quiz.
‘On no there won't'
Oh yes there will, and here is eclectic effusion of ferroviarial frivolity. But, be warned, it gets very obscure. Answers next month or, if you are desperate, try www.alycidon.com.
What is?
1 Bowker's Law.
2 The Wolmar Question.
3 Miller's Masterpiece.
4 The Bang.
5 The Ford Factor.
1 Woolf Barnato and Diaghelev's Ballets Russes.
3 Wuthering Heights and the Edmonson ticket.
4 Two actresses George Stephen son and a preserved London Underground locomotive.
5 Derby Works and Coventry Cathedral.
1) The only certainty, past and present, is that each Railway or Transport Act ensures the next.
2) I love taking the train.
3) I am refreshed and expanded when the freight train rattles past me.
4) Speed is the classical virtue of the guided transport system.
1 Can you name more than two songs about ‘The last train to' without using Google?
2 How far did the City of New Orleans run in a day?
Identify the companies
1) Bringing you better living.
2) Inspire the next.
(Poet also required)
1 Who daintily alighted at Ruislip Gardens ?
2 Last line please.
Let each make haste to indulge his taste
Be it beer, champagne or cider
My private joy, both man and boy
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
3 What ‘all unseen brought up the 8.15'?
1) The fire box at the wrong end, pre-dating Bulleid's Leader design more than a century.
2 Letchworth station (James there's a reproduction on the web).
3 LNER 622 on a level crossing
1) Who became a railwayman after composing has given him a nervous breakdown?
2 Who would have ‘gladly given all my symphonies had I been able to invent the locomotive' and died of influenza brought on by train spotting in winter?
3 Who wrote ‘Chemin de fer', a musical railway journey for piano?
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