Bank Holiday Monday Quiz

ALL of these items have appeared in this blog in the last six months.

1

She (? He, It?) was nicknamed "Big Bertha" but on which short stretch of line did she work.

2

Where did these freebies cease to be  relevant?

3

This plane was a failure. What was its full name?

4

In which Swiss City does this part rural new tram  (train?) route operate?

5

Between which two Hampshire communities does this pink ferry sail?

6

What is the T O P S class number of these locos. fbb has two on his model railway!

7

Between which two towns does this new-ish bus route run?

8

Where might you have once ridden this pier train/tram, its disused remnants now being replaced by a walkway?

9

Where can you ride this newly opened and expensive link?

10

Which company produces these models and what is their official "scale" name?

11

On which railway will you soon be able to ride on these new vehicles?

12

In real life what would this wagon (an OO model) have carried?

13

In which London area did this brand prevail - where "R" prefixes are still used today?

14

Now decommissioned, where is this building located?

15

Who operates this driverless bus (with driver) and where?

16

Where will Andy's hire bikes be yellow?

17

What is unusual about this Budapest tourist railway?

18

Where were these iconic 02 class locos lined up, awaiting their fiery fate?

19

What is this bus "system", running 'right round the city" to be called?

20

What was the purpose of this Berlin landmark, no longer in use.

Answers will be published later this week.

 Next West Lothian blog : Tuesday 11th April 

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It Was The Flatbread Wot Done It!

Cleopas and his unnamed companion (presumably his wife, yet another Mary) were trudging miserably back to Emmaus, a town about 7 miles from Jerusalem. As they walked a "bloke" joined them.

They did not recognise him - he was just an ordinary "bloke" on the road.

"You seem very miserable.," the "bloke" said sympathetically.. Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have been happening there these last few days?”

“What things?” he asked.

“The things that happened to Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet and was considered by God and by all the people to be powerful in everything he said and did. Our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and he was crucified. And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel free! Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened. Some of the women of our group surprised us; they went at dawn to the tomb, but could not find his body. They came back saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive. Some of our group went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him either.”

Then "the bloke" said to them, “How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said! Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?” And "the bloke" explained to them what was said about the Messiah in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets.

So they invited "the bloke" in for a bevvy and a snack - as you do. And as the honoured guest, they invited "the bloke" to break the bread, a Jewish hospitality custom.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized "the bloke" who went on his way. They said to each other, “Wasn't it like a fire burning in us when Jesus talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?”

You couldn't, you wouldn't, make it up!

"The Road to Emmaus" narrative is in Luke's Gospel Chapter 24.

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