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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Inventions Trains 2
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Prior to 1835 the standard rail width was ?

 

4ft 8.5 inches
4 ft
3ft 8.5 inches
5ft

 Who improved Stehenson's locomotives and built his own in the mid 1800's ?

 

Robert Fairlie
Thomas Russel Crampton
John Blenkinsop
Charles Lartique
1863 saw the first underground system, powered by steam opened in ?

 

London
Berlin
Budapest
New York

 In 1879 the first electric railway opened on which seafront ?

 

Brighton
Blackpool
Gt Yarmouth
Clacton
A record speed of 142 mph for a diesel was set by which train in 1973 ?

 

German ICE
TGV
British Rail HST
Bullet Train

 In 1912 the first diesel locomotive operated in ?

 

France
Germany
USA
Great Britain
In 1938 which locomotive set a steam powered record on 126mph ?

 

Rocket
Flying Scotsman
Mallard
The Queen of Scots

 Who built Der Adler which pioneered steam railways in Europe ?

 

John Blenkinsop
Robert Fairlie
George Stephenson
Charles Lartique
The TGV train service is found in which country ?

 

USA
Germany
France
UK

 American George Pullman patented the sleeping car system in which year ?

 

1915
1865
1965
1815


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