Trains Quiz

1. In which Scottish city was the film Trainspotting set?
Edinburgh
2. In what country did the first locomotive passenger train begin operations?
England (1825)
3. If a train travels at 80 miles per hour, how far does it go in two and a quarter hours?
180 miles
4. TRAIN MANY OBSOLETE is an anagram of which London railway station?
Marylebone Station
5. In August 2003, Eurostar broke the UK speed record for a train, to what speed did it reach?
208mph - Powering slightly downhill through the north Kent countryside
(Train 3134 reached 208mph (334.7kph) while pulling 14 cars - previous record 162mph)
6. In which country can you travel on the Bullet Train?
Japan
7. In which film did Phil Collins play one of the great Train Robbers?
“Buster”
8. Which UK city has a train station called Temple Meades?
Bristol
9. In the News, 2004, Trains have been plagued by all sorts from the wrong kind of leaves to the wrong kind of snow. What is the latest problem to hit the railways?
The wrong kind of horn. Drivers of new trains are being told to use their horns less often because they are too noisy for railway neighbours
10. On which train, travelling through Carolina, would you expect to be served Ham & Eggs?
Chattanooga choo-choo!
11. On September 27, 1825, which locomotive, built by George Stephenson, carried 450 persons at 15 miles per hour from Darlington to Stockton on the world's first public passenger train?
Active (accept Locomotion, its later name)
12. Which engineer's statue watches over the trains at Paddington Station?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
13. What powered the trains through New York’s first subway when it opened in 1904?
Electricity
14. If you wanted to see the steam train 'The Mallard' where would you have to go?
The National Rail Museum in York
15. How was William Huskinson killed in 1830?
First man to be run over and killed by a locomotive
16. The French call it "La Train Sifflera Trois Fois" what film is it?
High Noon
17. What was The King of Trains and The Train of Kings?
The Orient Express
18. What is the first train station that can be landed on a Monopoly board?
King’s Cross
19. From which London station would you catch the Euro star train?
Waterloo
20. With a fastest recorded time of 249 minutes, what is the name of the train service, named after a famous Steam engine, which travels between London and Edinburgh?
Flying Scotsman

21. Who wrote the novel ‘Trainspotting’?
Irving Welsh
22. Which infamous crime was committed in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, in 1963?
The Great Train Robbery
23. Wesley Snipes and who starred in the film Money Train in 1995?
Woody Harrelson
24. To which football ground would you be going and which home team would you see if you got off the train at Fratton Station?
Fratton Park - Portsmouth
25. In 1960 the Evening Star was commissioned. It was Britain’s last what?
Steam Locomotive
26. Which police officer became famous for trying to bring the Great Train Robbers to justice?
Jack Slipper
27. In which British city is there an underground rail system nicknamed 'The Clockwork Orange'?
Glasgow
28. What did Native Americans call locomotive trains?
Iron Horses
29. Which is the best-known train engine on the Island of Sodor?
Thomas the Tank Engine
30. In which European capital city is Tara Street station?
Dublin
31. What did the James Younger gang rob on the 21st July 1873, that had never been robbed before?
A Train
32. Which native of Wylam in Northumberland is credited with the invention of the locomotive?
George Stephenson
33. Where on the American freight trains would you find the caboose?
The end. The last carriage used by the conductor and rear brakeman
34. In which town in the north east of England is there a brick train sculpture created by David Mach and unveiled in 1997?
Darlington
35. In the drivers theory test, what is the correct answer to “You are waiting at a level crossing and the red lights are continuing to flash after a train has passed. How many minutes are you advised to wait before ‘phoning the signal operator”?
Three minutes
36. Which fictional train is driven by 'Jones the Steam'?
Ivor The Engine
37. The world famous steam engine 'The Flying Scotsman' used to depart from which London Station en route to Edinburgh?
Kings Cross
38. In which US state is Chattanooga which, according to Glenn Miller's million-seller record, lies on Track 29?
Tennessee
39. In 1864, Franz Muller had the dubious distinction of being the first person to commit a murder on which type of transport in Britain?
On a Train
40. From which platform number does the Hogwarts Express depart in the Harry Potter books?
Nine and three quarters

Tiebreaker - In what year was train robber Ronnie Biggs born?
1929

In 1997, a Japanese firm of train builders claimed the world speed record of 332 miles per hour