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Title: Quick Trivia Post by: Conner on November 23, 2007, 19:17:41 3 Quick Questions
1) Which FGW station starred(kind of) in a 2005 film? What was the film? Why did it not really star in it at all? 2) How many TOC's serve Penzance station? Name them. 3) What is the longest journey(no break) on the FGW network? One answer each please until I say whether you're wrong or right. Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: devon_metro on November 23, 2007, 19:20:51 TOCs serving PNZ:
SWT, FGW, AXC Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: TerminalJunkie on November 23, 2007, 19:25:41 Quote from: qprrule 1) Which FGW station starred(kind of) in a 2005 film? What was the film? Why did it not really star in it at all? Pewsey; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; it was actually filmed at a different station.Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: Conner on November 23, 2007, 20:40:59 TOCs serving PNZ: Correct. SWT only have 1 service a week though so I thought it might catch people out.SWT, FGW, AXC Quote from: qprrule 1) Which FGW station starred(kind of) in a 2005 film? What was the film? Why did it not really star in it at all? Pewsey; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; it was actually filmed at a different station.Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: John R on November 23, 2007, 21:06:17 Paddington to Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads?
Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: Conner on November 23, 2007, 22:14:20 Paddington to Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads? No there is one longer than that.Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: Shazz on November 23, 2007, 22:30:50 No idea what route the sleeper service takes, but could it be that?
Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: Conner on November 23, 2007, 22:53:57 No idea what route the sleeper service takes, but could it be that? Yeh. It just goes the normal PNZ-PAD or reverse route but it takes all night and therefore the longest end-to-end journey.Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: grahame on November 24, 2007, 20:38:33 Excellent thread!
Which FGW stations come first and last when you sort all the letters of their names alphabetically (example - beeeefrrrrs is Bere Ferrers sorted!) Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: TerminalJunkie on November 24, 2007, 22:53:00 Quote from: grahame Which FGW stations come first and last when you sort all the letters of their names alphabetically (example - beeeefrrrrs is Bere Ferrers sorted!) First - St Budeaux Victoria Road?Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: grahame on November 25, 2007, 07:44:29 Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: TerminalJunkie on November 25, 2007, 11:30:43 I think I know what the last one is, but I'll chuck in Kings Nympton and see if anyone can improve on it...
Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: grahame on November 25, 2007, 16:03:53 There are six stations later than King's Nympton I thing (yeah - I have a program that works them out). One or two are stations that FGW just serves rather than runs, but the extreme case they are certainly in charge!
Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: TerminalJunkie on November 25, 2007, 16:33:41 Quote from: grahame There are six stations later than King's Nympton If five of them are Islip, Plymouth, Slough, Woolston and Worthing, then I know the last one (although it wasn't the one I had earlier!)Quote from: grahame I have a program that works them out Which two are first and last if you put the letters in reverse order and then sort them? (eg SLOUGH=USOLHG instead of GHLOSU) Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: gaf71 on November 25, 2007, 16:46:20 Quote from: grahame There are six stations later than King's Nympton If five of them are Islip, Plymouth, Slough, Woolston and Worthing, then I know the last one (although it wasn't the one I had earlier!)Quote from: grahame I have a program that works them out Which two are first and last if you put the letters in reverse order and then sort them? (eg SLOUGH=USOLHG instead of GHLOSU) Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: grahame on November 25, 2007, 17:17:18 Which two are first and last if you put the letters in reverse order and then sort them? (eg SLOUGH=USOLHG instead of GHLOSU) Do you include the one that's looked after by South West Trains but which appears in the FGW list of stations on their web site ... or should I look for the first one just up the way from Swindon? And do you realise that if you sort stations in this order ... that Melksham (for once) comes in roughly the right place - 35th out of 278. Quote You must be really bored! Nah - good little demonstration. Using similar bits of code that are used to work out some things with the human geonome which is 11 billion C A T and Gs - now THAT is boring! Title: Re: Quick Trivia Post by: TerminalJunkie on November 25, 2007, 17:58:12 Quote from: gaf71 You must be really bored! ;D I have to do something to keep my mind off everybody's spelling mistakes! This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |