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Transport - Steam Locomotives 0003
1.
What was meant by the letters RA, followed by a number, painted on locomotive cab sides in British Railway days?
Regional allocation
Regional availability
Route allocation
Route availability
2.
The last 2-4-0 locomotives to survive in British Railways days were members of the T26 class of which former company?
Great Eastern
Great North of Scotland
Great Central
North British
3.
What name did the Great Western Railway give to the class of 4-4-0 locomotives built with Duke Class boilers on Bulldog Class frames?
Bullduke
Dog
Duchess
Dukedog
4.
What name was carried by locomotive 71000, built at Crewe in 1954 as the only example of British Railways standard class 8?
Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Edinburgh
Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Windsor
5.
Which Commonwealth country introduced the partially-streamlined J class 4-8-2 locomotives in 1939?
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
South Africa
6.
Which country built a giant 4-14-4 locomotive in 1934?
Canada
The Soviet Union
Spain
The USA
7.
What name did the LMS give to the locomotive built in 1935 with turbines in place of cylinders?
Locoturb
Turbinia
Turboloco
Turbomotive
8.
The LNER D30 class 4-4-0 locomotives were named after characters created by which writer?
Charles Dickens
Sir Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
Robert Louis Stevenson
9.
What alternative, irreverent name did young trainspotters give to the British Railways 'Lion and Wheel' emblem?
Ferret and dartboard
Polecat and dartboard
Stoat and dartboard
Weasel and dartboard
10.
In 1946 fourteen 0-6-0T locomotives built in the USA were sent to work in which English port?
Grimsby
Liverpool
Plymouth
Southampton
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