Train Trivia Spotting

1 Which Bond movie ended with 007 and Solitaire aboard a train?

2 What name is shared by railway stations in London, Manchester and Mumbai (formerly Bombay)?

3 Who became known as The Father of Railways?

4 Which comedy thriller saw Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder and Patrick McGoohan aboard a train?

5 Which English city is home to the National Railway Museum?

6 Which film saw Tom Cruise clinging on to a train in the Channel Tunnel?

7 What do the initials APT stand for?

8 Which 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra was adapted from a novel by David Westheimer?

9 Which 2004 film saw Tom Hanks playing several characters including a conductor aboard a train bound for the North Pole?

10 Which Illinois folk hero is associated with the Cannonball Express?

11 Who solved the Murder on the Orient Express?

12 Who wrote the novel Trainspotting?

13 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features a train called Rusty?

14 Who penned the classic novel The Railway Children?

15 In which country does the William Tell Express run?

16 Which county witnessed the Great Train Robbery in 1963?

17 Who created Thomas the Tank Engine?

18 In which sitcom did Paul Shane play a railway porter called Jack Skinner?

19 The Huey P Long, the world’s longest railway bridge is located in which US city?

20 Which European capital city is served by Anhalter Railway Station?

21 Which 1953 comedy filmed by Ealing Studios told the story of a group of villagers attempts in preventing British Rail from closing down a branch line?

22 In 1863 what became the first underground line on the London Underground?

23 What is the world’s largest railway station?

24 Which capital city is served by an underground system known as the T-Bana?

25 Opened in 1901 between which two cities does the Trans-Siberian Railway run?

Answers to Train Trivia Spotting

1 Live and Let Die
2 Victoria
3 George Stephenson
4 The Silver Streak
5 York
6 Mission Impossible
7 Advanced Passenger Train
8 Von Ryan’s Express
9 The Polar Express
10 Casey Jones
11 Hercule Poirot
12 Irvine Welsh
13 Starlight Express
14 Edith Nesbit
15 Switzerland
16 Buckinghamshire
17 Reverend W Awdry
18 Oh Dr Beeching
19 New Orleans
20 Berlin
21 The Titfield Thunderbolt
22 Metropolitan
23 Grand Central in New York
24 Stockholm
25 Moscow to Vladivostok