Christmas Quiz 2014

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15: From the old Thameslink entrance at Kings Cross to the new St Pancras Domestic?

But are there other tunnels you can then turn into? For example, from the booking hall back down to the Northern Line?

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(or for a non-railway answer: from King George V to Woolwich through the foot tunnel!)

You can walk through the Rotherhithe Tunnel, which is about three times as long. I suspect that's going to be the winner.

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6a: Coventry and Nuneaton line (CNN)
6b: Somerset and Dorset line (SAD)

6a: Bretby Branch (BBC), Carbis Branch (CBS); both do news.
6c: Radford Junction to Linby Colliery Branch (RAC).
6d: London Bridge to Windmill Bridge Junction (LBW).

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Unless you count only things people allowed to be on LU metals during a possession can do, in which case it would be "line walk from Morden to Camden Town and back to Kennington the other way". But I suspect for the purposes of this quiz that would be a bit of a cheat.

You can do a lot better than that! Off the top of my head:

East Finchley or Golders Green via CX to Kennington, then via Bank to Euston-ish, take the King's Cross Loop and then the Piccadilly to Finsbury Park, Victoria to Green Park, Jubilee to Baker Street, Bakerloo to Oxford Circus, then Central whichever way turns out to be longer. I'm sure I could do better with some thought.

Hmm: does using a parallel tunnel count as retracing your steps?

4a: Valencia
4c: Incheon
4f: Buenos Aires

12: Smallbrook Junction

Hi, I think for question 11:

They all were renamed from their "old" name what they were opened as, to an "old & current" name, finally to their "current" name

Knowle -> Knowle & Dorridge -> Dorridge
Vauxhall -> Vauxhall & Duddeston -> Duddeston
Churchill -> Churchill & Blakedown -> Blakedown

Hope I make sense lol :)

5) a) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

4f. ...and Milan.

5d. Tintern Station

I have a picture of me on that gantry when I was about 13 years old.

3. Who has a station, a bridge, a junction and a tunnel named after him? All are located with a mile of each other.

Severn Tunnel Junction and Severn Bridge named after Viscount Severn?

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3. Who has a station, a bridge, a junction and a tunnel named after him? All are located with a mile of each other.

Severn Tunnel Junction and Severn Bridge named after Viscount Severn?

Nice try, but no banana.

Peter.

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3. Who has a station, a bridge, a junction and a tunnel named after him? All are located with a mile of each other.

Severn Tunnel Junction and Severn Bridge named after Viscount Severn?

Nice try, but no banana.

Peter.

A mad guess - Stourbridge?
Mal.

My friend NSEFAN just answered this one:

9. Haresfield up goods loop, near Gloucester - the signal displays no aspect until a train is routed up to it.

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My friend NSEFAN just answered this one:

9. Haresfield up goods loop, near Gloucester - the signal displays no aspect until a train is routed up to it.

The question says "did", rather than "do", however...

Also, there's many locations with approach-lit signals - off the top of my head, I think Simsig Edinburgh includes a few on various goods loops.

Some more stations for question 2:

Hinckley
Narborough
South Wigston

All served only by XC but looked after by East Midland Trains and painted in their colours.