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Transport - Railways 0003
1.
In 1869 the First Transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed when the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit, in which US state?
Montana
Nebraska
Utah
Wyoming
2.
The Swiss Museum of Transport is located in which city?
Bern
Basel
Lausanne
Lucerne
3.
What is the main line railway gauge in the Republic of Ireland?
Four feet nine inches
Five feet
Five feet three inches
Five feet six inches
4.
In which Australian city is the historic Flinders Street Station?
Adelaide
Brisbane
Melbourne
Sydney
5.
What was the first name of the notorious Doctor Beeching, whose 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways led to wholesale line closures?
Raymond
Reginald
Richard
Robert
6.
The North Norfolk Railway is a heritage railway running between Holt and which seaside town?
Cromer
Great Yarmouth
Hunstanton
Sheringham
7.
The Leek and Manifold Light Railway was a narrow gauge line that operated between 1904 and 1934 in which English county?
Devon
Leicestershire
Shropshire
Staffordshire
8.
Which UK railway company ordered two gas turbine locomotives in the 1940s, although they weren't delivered until after nationalisation?
Great Western
London, Midland and Scottish
London and North Eastern
Southern
9.
Dating from 1836, which is the oldest station in London?
Broad Street
Charing Cross
London Bridge
Marylebone
10.
Opened in 1913, the oldest subway system in the Southern Hemisphere is in which city?
Buenos Aires
Cape Town
Sydney
Wellington
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