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1. Since Britain had once had over 100 railway companies, what was the main reason for there being only four by 1923?
2. These railway companies had magnificent livery, and probably none more than the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS). What was the official title of the red used in their livery?
3. To this day, the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) locomotive "Mallard" still holds a particular record. What is it?
4. The main engineering works for the Great Western Railway (GWR) were at Swindon. According to legend, just how did Isambard Kingdom Brunel select the city and site for these works?
5. What is the famous, long-standing nickname for the GWR?
6. Which Great Western Railway Company Director, forced out of office by Labour's nationalization law, gained sweet revenge by helping to push the Prime Minister and the Labour Government out of office and keep them out of office by becoming Prime Minister himself?
7. "Next train's gone" is a classic line from the 1937 movie "Oh, Mr Porter!", starring Will Hay, about laughably incompetent railway staff at a small backwater station in Northern Ireland. On which rail network was this film shot?
8. The gap between rails is known as the "gauge". What assertion is UNTRUE out of the following?
9. After nationalization in 1946, the UK rail network was unified into one public body, trading as British Rail from 1965 onwards. In the UK today, what is sometimes referred to as the "British Rail School Of Charm"?
10. The two main railways serving the north of the UK were LMS, which had a London terminus at St Pancras, and LNER, which had one at Kings Cross. What feature of these two stations served as evidence for those arguing for rationalization of the networks?
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