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Tubeguru's "Rail News" Quiz has given me inspiration...

1. What is the is only NR station in the UK to be served SOLELY by InterCity 125s?

2. I travel from Waterloo to Clapham. I travel by two electric powered trains and two diesel powered trains (in any order) and I do not double back any station en route. What is the route that I took?

3. Which branch line is known as the "Gainsborough Line?"

4. A "Gronk" is a common slang name for which class of locomotive?

5. What kind of coupling is used on all Pacer, Sprinter and most Turbostar DMUs so that any of them can interwork with each other?

6. Apart from being 3 coaches instead of 4, what is the only mechanical difference between a class 318 compared to a class 317?

7. Standedge Tunnel lies in between which two stations?

8. What is the frequency of the Marston Vale line on a Sunday?

9. How did the class 321 EMU get its nickname?

0. How many rail miles (to the nearest half mile) is it between EUS and MAN via the Trent Valley and CRE?

Answers to me via PM ONLY (so that others can have a go) and I will reveal the answers in two weeks time.

Can you clarify what you mean by "HST" in question one?

You should know, you drive them.

It's not only Brush class 43's with seven or eight trailing vehicles between them that are classed as "HSTs".

Pendolinos, Voyagers and Meridians are, inter alia, classed as "HST" under Network Rail classification.

See http://www.rgsonline.co.uk/Rule_Book/Ru ... ss%203.pdf page 8.

And can we have some sort of clue to the Clapham question?

There are too many possibilities to make it worth my while trying to work it out.

I would've also said the very sexy Class 395s that I use to get to London are HSTs too...and that's all I'm saying on that matter

tubeguru wrote:Can you clarify what you mean by "HST" in question one?

To me and most of my enthusiast friends, the term "HST" refers to the original (and best) high speed train, the InterCity 125.

Even though NR might call a Voyager or a Pendolino a "HST", I personally do not and just call these modern trains simply Voyagers or Pendos, they are just another EMU or DEMU!

tubeguru wrote:And can we have some sort of clue to the Clapham question?

There are too many possibilities to make it worth my while trying to work it out.

The clue is there are two diesel trains and two electric trains. I think there is only one possible answer.

Isn't it time for the answers to this? We don't really need two weeks do we?

tubeguru wrote:Isn't it time for the answers to this? We don't really need two weeks do we?

I set the expiry date as the 8th of March (at 20:00) so that as many members as possible can have plenty of time to enter the quiz if they so wish.

The deadline will remain so, it would be like terminating a SWA bound HST at CDF!

Yes but how many people have entered in the last five days?

I have only had two entries since the quiz started!

That more or less completes my case. I'm not sure all the people who haven't entered are busy beavering away trying to get the answers ...

Having said that, I like this quiz and think you should do more, as I have discovered things I didn't know while researching the answers.

Oh - I hadn't thought of researching the answers! I just sent ten guesses in.