TRAIN TEASERS

'A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter' the book will test your knowledge of this country's rail system and enlighten you on the most colourful aspects of its long history. Covers entrepreneurs and engineers beginning with the first question. The carved head of which British steam pioneer is on the roof of the Gare du Nord Station, Paris? Was George Stephenson the father of Robert, or was Robert the father of George? Who on 5th July 1841 took his first step in the leisure travel business by chartering a train to take 500 temperance supporters from Leicester to Loughborough? What is Brunel's billiard table? There are picture questions and archive photos of the Flying Scotsman right up to which Great British Bake Off judge once served on the BR Board? Meet trunk murderers, trainspotters, haters of railways, railway writers, Ministers for Transport good and bad, railway cats and dogs and even a railway penguin, crime and criminals, celebrities, staff, stations and tunnels, bridges and junctions, famous trains and locos, carriages and sleepers, classes and tickets, refreshment, erotica and accidents. When was smoking banned on trains? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as 'a shave in the air'? And what is a steam banana? 230pp, photos and thankfully, answers.