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1. What name is given to the line in the Scottish Highlands that runs from Inverness to Thurso and Wick?
 
The Far North Line
The Grampian Line
The Highland Line
The Northern Line

Thurso is the most northerly railway station in Great Britain
 
 
2. England's most westerly station can be found in which Cornish town?
 
Newquay
Penzance
Redruth
St Ives
 
 
3. The picturesque Settle and Carlisle line was opened by which railway company in 1875?
 
Great Central Railway
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
London and North Western Railway
Midland Railway
 
 
4. The longest straight length of track in the world, over 300 miles, runs across the Nullarbor Plain, in which country?
 
Australia
Egypt
Mongolia
Russia
 
 
5. Which company built London's first underground railway?
 
The Bakerloo Railway
The District Railway
The Hammersmith Railway
The Metropolitan Railway

It was opened in 1863, using steam locomotives
 
 
6. What name was given to the line opened in 1862 between Edinburgh and Carlisle via Hawick?
 
The Anglo-Scottish Route
The Borders Route
The Caledonian Route
The Waverley Route

It was named after the novel by Sir Walter Scott
 
 
7. In what year was British Railways re-branded as British Rail?
 
1960
1965
1970
1975
 
 
8. In which country was the Gotthard rail tunnel opened in 1891?
 
Austria
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
 
 
9. Which was the only British narrow-gauge railway to be absorbed into British Railways at nationalisation?
 
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
Vale of Rheidol Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
 
 
10. The Flying Scotsman service between London and Edinburgh was first introduced in 1862, operated jointly by the Great Northern, the North Eastern and which other company?
 
Caledonian
Great Central
Great Eastern
North British
 
 
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