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1. Name the device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams.
2. Which London Underground line has the least number of stations? (Map colour turquoise)
3. Which London Underground line has the most stations? (Map colour green)
4. What is the type of railway junction in which two railway tracks of conflicting routes cross over one another at an acute angle? (Hint: what it looks like from a plan view)
5. Who was the British inventor (known as The Cornish Giant)of the first WORKING steam locomotive in 1804?
6. Which steam locomotive won the Rainhill Trials in 1829?
7. What was the name of the first COMMERCIALLY successful steam locomotive (built by Matthew Murray of Holbeck, Leeds)?
8. What is the most northerly railway station in Great Britain (hint: a river and a bay)?
9. What was the Christian name of the infamous Beeching, first chairman of British Rail, 1961 to 1965?
10. Which is Britain's longest railway tunnel, apart from the Channel Tunnel?
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