Twentyfour Topics From Recent Blogs
1
The only narrow gauge line run by British Railways; from which Welsh coastal town?
2
What does the Polish word "PETLA" mean?
3
In what year was this tank wagon on sale at 2/6? Was it ... 1938 ...1948 ... 1978?
4
Where were these hydraulic rams in operation? Either a place name or a "facility" will do.
5
What class of diesel loco was this - now withdrawn.
6
Where on "earth" was this bay, serving trains on a popular Western region holiday line?
7
Where was this sea front cafe recently opened; built on the site of a tramway terminus?
8
Which bus company has recently won contracts to operate the former Stagecoach network in the Amber Valley (Derbyshire)? And it isn't Hulleys!
9
Which tram town?
10
Which bus company used to run buses in the Amber Valley? The route designation is distinctive.
11
A visualisation of the new station for Aberdelgleddau. What is the community's English name?
12
This new-start ferry service runs from Lymington to Yarmouth. What is the name of the boat, named after an awakening deep sea "monster" in a John Wyndham novel.
13
Where did this bus operate, once a major railway town, before moving to Cornwall? It is painted in a pastiche of that town's former Corporation bus livery.
14
Where is this bus station, no longer available to passengers but still used by buses? The town has a "duplicate" in Cambridgeshire..
15
This cliff lift, maybe used by Dracula (?), closed in 2022? It has just been announced that it will not re-open and will be filled in.
16
First's Lumo trains will soon (?) be running between London Euston and which Scottish town? The town was the site of a famous battle in which William Wallace trounced the English.
17
This route, once a London Country (green bus) service, and more recently reduced to hourly and run hy Arriva, has been taken over by which company?
18
A British Railways carriage with unusual seating. It has been recently restored. What was/is it used for?
19
Which company has recently ousted GoAhead to provide branded services for this Sixth Form College in Bodmin?
20
Which privately owned Scottish bus company is intending to build a new depot right in the heart of First Glasgow's territory?
21
Which actress gave her name to this preserved Metropolitan Railway electric locomotive?
22
What is the aristocratic link between this Scarborough based operator and a former National Bus Company sell-off unit based in Peterborough?
23
This former bus station will soon be a bus station again. In which Somerset town?
24
What technological achievement is taking place here. It has a numeric link with the anniversary of the passenger railway in the UK.
If you can answer all 24 correctly
you may consider yourself as:-
Being a public transport genius
Having a prodigious memory of fbb blogs
Cheating
Being just a first class saddo!
Answers later in the week.
Next loopy brown blog - Monday 13 Oct
That was quite hard. I was able to answer less than half - and those were mainly ones that I 'already knew'.
ReplyDeleteAnd question 1 had once again managed to overlook the Welshpool & Llanfair.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Corris Railway with 2 locomotives that BR took over in 1948 but closed the same year. (Favourite Quiz Question - how many narrow gauge locos did BR inherit in 1948 - Answer 7)
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