AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail

[whole diary]

[grahame]

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

[PrestburyRoad]

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.

[PhilWakely]

6. Arisaig

[Worcester_Passenger]

10 : Culrain and Invershin.

[TaplowGreen]

3 Corrour

[eightonedee]

3 There was also filming at Leith, by then closed to passenger traffic

[Oxonhutch]

9: Dunfermline City

[Western Pathfinder]

No.7 Grahamestown!....not the correct spelling.

[froome]

1. Johnstone, Oban and Queens Park?

[grahame]

1. Johnstone, Oban and Queens Park?

Jordanhill 

[Zoe]

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.

[JayMac]

8. Craigie

[grahame]

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.