New Year Quiz 2008

1.What does an ejector on a steam locomotive do?
2.Who starred in the short film ‘Water’s End’ that was partly made on the GWR?
3.What are the names of the bottled beer and cider sold on GWR trains?
4.Who was F W Whyte and what was his claim to fame?
5.When did British Railways close Gotherington Station?
6.What locomotive was in charge of the last steam-hauled Race Special from Paddington to Cheltenham Racecourse?
7.What speed did City class 4-4-0 City of Truro allegedly achieve on 3rd May 1904? And who recorded that speed?
8.What locomotive took over from City of Truro at Bristol after that momentous run, taking the Ocean Mails on to Paddington?
9.What is the unique feature of the Class 73 locomotives?
10.What is the nickname of the Collet 56xx class 0-6-2T?
11.Where did the present Winchcombe station building come from?
12.Who was the final Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway?
13.What’s a ‘three doll bracket’?
14.What is a ‘dogfish’?
15.What does the designation RBR mean when applied to a carriage?
16.How many 9F class 2-10-0’s (like Black Prince) were built?
17.What was the name of the only named express that ran over the present-day GWR?
18.When was that express introduced and where did it run from and to?
19.Some class 47 diesel electric locomotives were modified to form class 47/7. What did the modification allow these locomotives to do?
20.What’s a Class ‘A’ train and how is it shown on GWR trains?
21.When and why did the Stanway Viaduct collapse?
22.What was the common nickname of the local train services that ran between Cheltenham and Honeybourne? And what was the typical formation of the train?
23.What was the name of the Society that first started the preservation effort and when was its first public meeting held?
24.How did George Jackson Churchward meet his death?
25.What led British Railways to finally close the Cheltenham-Honeybourne line?

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