98 Trains And Railways Trivia Questions with Answers
98 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which railway opened in 1836 as Canada’s first steam-operated railway?
Answer
Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad
Which railway locomotive was nicknamed “The Flying Scotsman” after the London–Edinburgh train service?
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LNER Class A3 4472
Which railway signalling system uses colored lights to tell train drivers when they may proceed?
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Colour light signalling
Which railway company opened the first public railway in the United States in 1830?
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
What is the name of the railway viaduct that is the world's longest bridge, according to Guinness World Records?
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Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
Which Manchester railway station, opened in 1830, is often described as the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station?
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Liverpool Road railway station
What name was given to the 1963 robbery of a Royal Mail train in Britain?
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Great Train Robbery
Which railway in Brighton opened in 1883 and is recognised as the world’s oldest operating electric railway?
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Volk’s Electric Railway
Which railway hosted the first recorded railway journey by a steam locomotive, in 1804?
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Merthyr Tramroad
Which Japanese railway station is widely recognised as the world’s busiest by passenger numbers?
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Shinjuku Station
What was the original gauge of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway?
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7 feet ¼ inch
Which railway station in India is famous for its UNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic architecture in Mumbai?
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
Which railway suspension system carries trains across the city of Wuppertal in Germany?
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Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Which railway, opened in 1854, is widely regarded as the world’s first mountain railway?
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Semmering Railway
Which commercial magnetic-levitation train reaches 431 kilometres per hour in Shanghai?
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Shanghai Maglev Train
What is the name of the world’s oldest continuously operating railway, founded in Leeds in 1758?
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Middleton Railway
Which railway carries the world’s longest passenger train record, set in Switzerland in 2022?
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Rhaetian Railway
Which British train service has run between London and Edinburgh since 1862?
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Flying Scotsman
Which locomotive hauled the first public train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825?
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Locomotion No. 1
Which New York City railway terminal has 44 platforms, the most of any station in the world?
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Grand Central Terminal
Which railway station in Tibet is the world’s highest, standing at about 5,068 metres above sea level?
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Tanggula railway station
Which railway is the world’s highest, crossing the Tibetan Plateau to reach Lhasa?
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Qinghai–Tibet Railway
Which railway station in London is the setting for Platform 9¾ in the Harry Potter books and films?
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King’s Cross Station
Which railway line, opened in 1912, carries trains to the summit of Switzerland’s Jungfraujoch?
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Jungfrau Railway
Which mountain railway in India is known as the “Toy Train” and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999?
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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
What is the world’s longest railway tunnel, opened in Switzerland in 2016?
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Gotthard Base Tunnel
What railway became India’s first passenger railway when it opened between Bombay and Thane in 1853?
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Mumbai–Thane railway
What is the popular English nickname for Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed trains?
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Bullet train
What railway links Moscow and Vladivostok across Russia and is the world’s longest railway line?
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Trans-Siberian Railway