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    Elizabeth line: Commuters say service 'not what was promised'

    Particularly as most foreigners arriving at a new city are probably not going to expect to be gouged for £25 each just to get to the city - most other cities I've been to (at least in mainland Europe) the main transit into the city is charged at standard metro rates, maybe one extra 'zone' - as...
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Just realised I mistyped the question from my notes, and missed a bit - it should have said "self-contained railways" - i.e. not connected to the mainland. On that basis, I'll hand the baton to @LSWR Cavalier, for getting the most based on the question as asked. Mea culpa... The list I had...
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    The British Isles consists of a rather large number of islands. Excluding Great Britain and Ireland, there were (if I've got my figures right), 11 of them that had, or have, railways. Which 11?
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    1 is Danny John-Jules, who played Cat and Dwayne respectively. (He actually played characters called Dwayne in both series - Dwayne Dibbley in Red Dwarf, Dwayne Myers in DiP)
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Isn't the art project musical? A piece being played on the church organ that will take centuries to finish?
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    St Kitts and Marie-Galante - That on St Kitts served the sugar trade, and now runs as a round-the-island tourist ride (not really a heritage operation IMHO, more about sightseeing). No idea about Marie-Galante, that's simply the first French island I could find the right distance away!
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Vatican City it is - 0.3km! Monaco has over 1km as the tunnel runs on their side of the border for quite a bit.
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    This should be an easy one - Which country in Europe has the lowest amount of railway mileage? (excluding those that have none)
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Frankfurt-am-main and Frankfurt-an-der-Oder?
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Is No2 the location of the new Tesla Factory?
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    Settlement Association

    Nevil Shute Norway has appeared in this thread before... Southampton was the starting point of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which was built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast
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    Settlement Association

    Pulborough lies on the River Arun, the source of which is in St Leonard's Forest, near to Mannings Heath.
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    8) Selwyn Patterson is the commissioner in "Death in Paradise"
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    Settlement Association

    Chichester's patron saint is St Richard, who wsa born in Droitwich in 1197
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    Settlement Association

    There are two villages called Osgodby in North Yorkshire - the other lies just outside Scarborough.
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    Train walk round unnecessary waste of time ?

    Anyone who has done the IAM Roadsmart advanced driving course will have been taught that you should always do a walk-round check in any vehicle, even your own private car - a dashboard tyre pressure monitor wouldn't detect a chunk out of a sidewall for example, yet that could easily cause a...
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    Settlement Association

    Ashbourne is home to an annual game of Royal Shrovetide Football, in which the entire town becomes the playing field. A similar annual game is the Shrove Tuesday game in Sedgefield, County Durham
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    End of the station's word!

    Dassa-Zoume (Benin)
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    Settlement Association

    Elstree was also the home to LT's Aldenham Bus Works, which handled bodywork and chassis - engines and running gear were maintained at their other works in Chiswick.
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    End of the station's word!

    Nendeln (Liechtenstein)

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