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1 Bowker's Law
The only sources of money for the railway are the farepayer and the taxpayer.
2 The Wolmar Question
‘What is a franchise for'?
3 Miller's Masterpiece
Intercity 125,
4 The Bang
The kinetic energy of 1 tonne moving at 1 mile/hour : equal to almost exactly 100 Joules.
5 The Ford Factor
The ratio of the cost per mile of infrastructure projects today compared with similar projects under British Rail, both at current prices.
1 Woolf Barnato and Diaghelev's Ballets Russes
Woolf Barnato, racing driver claimed that his Speed Six Bentley could beat the Blue train from Cannes to Calais . One of Diaghilev's ballets was called ‘Le train bleu'.
3 Wuthering Heights and the Edmonson ticket
Branwell Bronte became a booking clerk at Sowerby Bridge station where he might well have issued or handled an Edmonson card ticket.
4 Two actresses, George Stephen son and a preserved London Underground locomotive.
The locomotive is ‘Sarah Siddons' who is the first actress. The second actress is her niece, Frances (Fanny) Kemble. In August 1830 Fanny Kemble was given a footplate ride by George Stephen son.
5 Derby Works and Coventry Cathedral
Graham Sutherland, who created the great tapestry of Christ in Glory for the new Coventry Cathedral, was an apprentice at Derby Works.
1) The only certainty, past and present, is that each Railway or Transport Act ensures the next.
Gerard Fiennes.
2) I love taking the train
Tony Blair.
3) I am refreshed and expanded when the freight train rattles past me.
Thoreau.
4) Speed is the classical virtue of the guided transport system.
Professor Allan Wickens. former head of BR Research and father of the Advanced passenger Train.
1 Can you name more than two songs about ‘The last train to' without using Google?.
My two are:
Last train to San Fernando sung by Lonnie Donegan Last train to Clarksville – The Monkees
2 How far did the City of New Orleans run in a day?
According to the song by Woodie Guthrie ‘I'll have gone 500 miles when the day is done'
Identify the companies
1) Bringing you better living
English Electric
2) Inspire the next
Hitachi
Poet also required)
1 Who daintily alighted at Ruislip Gardens ?
Elaine.
Sir John Betjeman ‘Middlesex'
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
Is being a railroad rider
Ogden Nash
3 What ‘all unseen brought up the 8.15'?
Romance.
Kipling The King
1) The fire box at the wrong end, pre-dating Bulleid's Leader design by more than a century.
Turner in ‘Rain steam and speed'.
2 Letchworth station
Spencer Gore of the Camden Town Group
3 LNER 622 on a level crossing
LS Lowry in ‘Level Crossing 1946'.
1) Who became a railwayman after composing has given him a nervous breakdown?
Balakirev
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?
Dvorak.
3 Who wrote ‘Chemin de fer', a musical railway journey for piano
Alkan
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