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!
