OK, folks, here it is. Your
challenge this year is related to stations and other railway-related locations.
For each location, you need to determine if it is real or fictional.
If you think it's a real place,
tell us where it is located (with some degree of accuracy). Extra points will be allocated for wit and verve rather than obsessive accuracy.
If,
on the other hand, you think it’s a fictitious location – then in what
film/book/song does it exist? Again, correct amusing answers will score higher than correct dull answers.
So,
for example, Apedale Road is a REAL station and is one terminus of the Apedale
Valley Light Railway.
The
vast majority of the locations are in the UK (note careful choice of words).
As
noted above, extra points will be allocated to amusing and educational answers;
this therefore makes the concept of “winning” rather an arbitrary one, which is
the way it is intended to be and hence differentiates this quiz from the Boxing
Day game of Monopoly. OK? Brace yourselves:-
1. North
Pole
2. Lake,
The Lake and Lakeside Loop (three places)
3. Crouch
End
4.
Hobbs
End
5.
West
Ashfield
Bonus question:- 4 & 5 can be found in
close proximity. Where?
6.
Junction
Road Junction
7.
North Haverbrook (bit of a clue - not actually a railway as such....)
8.
Westbourne Oak
9.
Mobil Avenue
10.
Bungalow
11. Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion
Bonus question:- What would this score in Scrabble?
12. Milford
13. Hatley
14. Hollerton Junction (which is also
served by which heritage railway?)
15. Grumbly
16. Pen Cob
17.
Decoy
18. Arlesburgh West
19.
Vauxhall
Cross
20.
Mornington
Crescent
Answers will be published here in a couple of weeks time. Exam papers may be e-mailed to info@mrt.org.uk or to Mr L's e-mail address for those who know it. Good luck!
Happy New Year from the Moseley Railway Trust! 2016 has certainly been a year to remember, some good things, some less agreeable things. We have finished 2016 with a private charter for a family gathering - what better way to see the year out than a gentle trundle on a 2'0" gauge train? There's lot to anticipate in 2017 at Apedale. The May gala - 13 and 14 May - is shaping up to be a cracking event; more details will be announced in the new few weeks. We will be starting a new loco restoration project soon - again, more details in due course, but the photo is a pretty big clue. Hopefully, the FR coach will be in traffic for the start of the season. But don't forget that we do lots of little projects along with the big ticket items; one such is the restoration of a Hudson wagon from RAF Fauld. It was once, many years ago, used in the passenger train at Cadeby - it's the wagon next to the steam loco in the black and white photo. The intervening years have not been kind to the woodwork, but the underlying structure looks sound. So, keep looking in here, and we will try to keep you informed about goings on down the Apedale Valley.
