Christmas Quiz (complete)

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Try these for size:
1. Which of the Victoria Line station logos (i.e. Queen Victoria at Vic.) is incorrect and why?
2. In which year and where were the first trolleybus trials in London?
3. Which new LUL ticket is to be introduced in January 05?
4. What is special about RM 1737, now in the LT Museum?
5. What was special about London tram 185?
6. Over which part(s) of the LUL system is the "LT Card" not valid and why?
7. These concern non-London Transport operations in the London area.
(7a) Prior to withdrawal, it was possible to travel on a stage-carriage service between 2 points, which were within the area bounded by the Circle Line. What was the journey, the route and the operator?
(7b) apart from Eastern National's 251, what other journey was possible on a similar service, both points being served by London trolleybuses?
8. What had Ipswich and Darlington particularly in common as regards bus operation?
9.Which British trolleybus system, operative in the 1960s, used only one set of registration letters?
10. What had Oxford and Cambridge's tramway systems in common?
11. Which large bus operator did not use fleet numbers on their vehicles and how precisely were the vehicles identified?
12. What were special about Southern Vectis (IOW) 308 (Bristol LS6B/ECW), 901 (AEC Regent I/ECW) and 902-3 (OT Bristols)?
13. Which British tramway system closed on 8.4.42?
14. On which British trolleybus systems could one have used decimal coinage (excluding florins!)?

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1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. It has a Leyland engine and was the Dalston ( Ash Grove) Show bus
5. ?
6. Top part of the Metropolitan Line, North of Rickmansworth and Central line to Epping because both are outside of the Greater London area.
7. These concern non-London Transport operations in the London area.
(7a) Victoria to Baker Street by Green Line 719
(7b) Wood Green to Epping?
8. ?
9.?
10. ?
11. East Kent, they added a 7 to the reg plate for D/D and a 1 for S/D eg 1174 was EFN 174L
12.
13. ?
14. ?

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1 out of 14 so far; yes East Kent for no. 11. I was thinking of when they identified buses by the number part only of the reg. (no two with the same number being in the fleet at the same time).

Forget Green Line for no. 7 as they once came under the L.T. aegis.

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Ah but did you know that East Kent had the Fleet Number painted in the cab and in small letters just above the fuel filler cap? so AFN 777B was 7777 and EFN 174L was 1174.

Did RM 1737 keep its original body then?

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The LT card cannot be used on the Bakerloo Line between Kenton and Harrow & W because National Rail fares apply on this strech, north of Moor Park on Met as outside of normal London fare boundary. It can be used to Epping as that station is in Z6

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OK here goes, sorry for any delay: library just reopened.
1. Finsbury Park wall motif is wrong. It depicts duelling which was actually at Finsbury Square (EC2)
2. 1909 Hendon
3. 3-day Travelcard
4. First bus in overall advert livery (Silexine Paints)
5. Last SERVICE car through Kingsway Subway
6. Yes, Kenton to Harrow & Weald. to protect Silverlink fare. Leaflet does not mention other invalidity.
7a. Thames Valley route B between Victoria and Kensington
7b. Birch Bros service from Kings Cross to Barnet
8. They relied on trolleybuses only for many years.
9. Glasgow (FYS)
10. They never electrified - horse only.
11. OK East Kent as stated.
12. They carried non-IOW registrations: 308 ex Lincolnshire Road Car and the others ex-Brighton Hove & District.
13. Southend-on-Sea
14. Teesside & Bradford

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Great Quiz Mr Box looking forward to another, on the Victoria Line question, I have a sneaky suspicion that there is another answer as at one of the stations the motifs werre actuall applied wrongly, ie upside down, may have been Vauxhall, but will check when I get time.

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See what I can come up with. Interested to hear about incorrect wall motif. (When I originally heard the question I immediately thought of the station with the 'line colour' motif, which if Green Park would now be wrong with addition of Jubilee line; however it was Oxford Circus!)