The Steam Train Quiz Book by Paul Andrews

Author:Paul Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: steam, train, locomotive, usa, uk, indian, railways, quiz, flying, mallard, scotsman, records, questions, triva
ISBN: 9781783338450
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

Answers

Rocket

The first person to be killed by a train was William Huskisson

Robert Stephenson

Locomotion No.1

Stockton to Darlington

Three, first class, second and third class!

The Elephant

The Great Western Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway and the Southern Railway

60163 Tornado

Mallard

1830

Charles Fox

Tom Thumb

The first Steam locomotive to be official logged at 100mph, and the longest non-stop journey for a Steam locomotive in 1989 in Australia!

Pete Waterman

Sir Nigel Gresley

Novelty

Invicta

92220 Evening Star

Richard Trevithick

3801

Jupiter, and Union Pacific No. 119

The Science Museum in London

1804, by Richard Trevithick

lead wheels, driving wheels, and tailing wheels (for example 2-4-2)

Big Boy

Puffing Billy

£500

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

108mph

The recording breaking run was disguised as ‘braking trials’

The Stephenson Locomotive Society

The ‘Great Northern’ which was a Pacific class

The ‘V2 - Green Arrow’ hauled the Scarborough Flyer on 8 March 2003

The ‘LMSR’ it was one of the LMS Jubilee 4-6-0’s

0-6-0 that’s six powered wheels!

2-6-0

Silver-grey

The ‘LNER’

1947 and they had a 2-6-0 layout

This locomotive was nick named because of its speed, and it had a T9 4-4-0 wheel layout

George V

GWR built the ‘Owain Glyndwr’

The ‘Southern Railway’ ran the Spam Cans! They were called that due to the casings which were easier to wash!

Southern Railways ‘Schools’ class V

Railway Operating Department

J G Robinson designed those locomotives

The ‘GWR’ - originally the locomotive was called ‘Eastnor Castle’

The colour was ‘Crimson Lake’

15 in (381 mm) gauge

1804 and was built by Richard Trevithick

The ‘LNER’ - the locomotive was a K4 2-6-0

4 foot, 8 and ½ inch (4’ 8 ½”)

Norfolk and Western

They had that nick name because they had a large driving wheel a bit like a spinning wheel

The West Somerset Railway

The company was the ‘LMSR’

1956

These 4-4-0 locomotives were based at Marylebone station

2005, yes as recent as that!

25 mph

The LNER ran this locomotive from Edinburgh to Inverness

God’s Wonderful Railway!

174 of the 0-6-0 goods engines

4-8-4 Northern

1988

The railway company the LNER ran this locomotive

4-8-8-4 (the Big Boy)!

1960

The ‘Cauliflowers’ were built in Crewe

East Anglian

The ‘Repton’ which was built by SR railway

B1’s - which had a 4-6-O layout

Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends

1834

Toy Train

A British-built B Class steam locomotive, DHR 778

The Leighton Buzzard Railway

The Ffestiniog Railway

The Bure Valley Railway

55 miles of track

The Hogwarts Express

July, 1836

The Bluebell Railway

York

The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Colne Valley Railway

Watercress Line

L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat

Approximately 1400 degrees Fahrenheit

Allegedly the buyer of the train, did not believe the locomotive could meet certain challenges, so when it did it then earned the name Challenger!

Approximately - 1 meter in 20

Sierra No. 3

True

It was the ‘Battle of Britain’ Class Steam Locomotive, No. 34051, which was actually called - Winston Churchill.

It was called - Hush Hush oand ran on the LNER. Built in 1930, and later converted to Class A4 in 1936

Lion

1960, May

It was the 70036 Boadicea

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