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Title: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: grahame on December 08, 2024, 06:27:00
Scotrail have asked us the following questions

1. There are three stations in Scotland that are the only ones beginning with their particular first letter. Can you name them?
2. In 2018-19, how many passengers passed through Glasgow Central?
a) 29,876,421
b) 30,697,014
c) 32,797,088
3. Can you name the station that features in the Trainspotting?
4. Inter7City trains call at Scotland’s seven cities. Can you name them all?
5. What is the smallest place in Scotland to have two stations?
6. What is the most westerly station in Scotland?
7. Glasgow Central was built over a village. What was it called?
8. What is the oldest station in Scotland?
9. If you were looking to visit the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, where would you get off the train?
10. Which two stations are only one minute apart by train but would take 20 minutes to drive between?

If you want to see their original (and - spoiler alert - a link to the answers) - it's at https://www.scotrail.co.uk/railway-quiz


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: PrestburyRoad on December 08, 2024, 07:21:07
5.  I'll go for Tyndrum (Lower and Upper).  I've been through both, though not set foot on the platforms.  This was on an excellent holiday many years ago using a rover ticket and changing trains at Crianlarich between the two West Highland branches.


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: PhilWakely on December 08, 2024, 08:03:36
6. Arisaig


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: Worcester_Passenger on December 08, 2024, 08:11:02
10 : Culrain and Invershin.


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: TaplowGreen on December 08, 2024, 08:12:58
3 Corrour


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: eightonedee on December 08, 2024, 08:15:26
3 There was also filming at Leith, by then closed to passenger traffic


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: Oxonhutch on December 08, 2024, 08:44:25
9: Dunfermline City


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: Western Pathfinder on December 08, 2024, 08:55:58
No.7 Grahamestown!....not the correct spelling.


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: froome on December 08, 2024, 09:18:09
1. Johnstone, Oban and Queens Park?


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: grahame on December 08, 2024, 09:20:41
1. Johnstone, Oban and Queens Park?

Jordanhill  >:(


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: Zoe on December 08, 2024, 16:50:38
4.  Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling.

Scotland does have eight cities now though since Dunfermline was given the status in 2022.  Had Elgin's bid been successful instead then maybe the trains would have been renamed Inter8City.


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: JayMac on December 08, 2024, 22:26:13
8. Craigie


Title: Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail
Post by: grahame on December 09, 2024, 05:51:59
8. Craigie

Had to look that one up ... that's known these days as "Broughty Ferry" I believe which is the same answer that Scotrail gave - and illustrates to me the danger of sharing someone else's quiz.   But, yes, it probably is the oldest station though it has been resited (?) and like Trigger's broom I suspect that there's none of the original left - so how old really is it? 

Other answers correctly given.   The missing station in question 1 is Yoker - only one starting with a Y.   Queens Park and Oban are correctly the other two with a unique first letter in Scotland.



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