Thomas
Name of the book series
The Railway Series
Similar looking sign to modern electric train signals
Car traffic lights
First train to go 100MPH
City of Truro
Creator of first steam train
Richard Trevithick
Reason why go signals were blue
Oil lamps & candles shone yellow and the colors mixed to make it green
Reason why Thomas was created
Wood shortages from WW2 prevented Wilbert Awdry from making a toy of Henry, so a tank engine was made instead.
Purpose of train derailers
To prevent train collisions in the event of a mishap
Location of longest passenger train recorded
Swiss Alps
Werner Von Siemens
Recommended amount of pistons for a diesel engine
4
Amount of books Wilbert Awdry wrote
26
Name of super heated steam
Dry Steam
Length of longest passenger train
1.2 miles
Name of the process where diesel trains started taking over the railway
Dieselisation
Railway where a huge sinkhole engulfed a train
Lindal Railway
First 3 railway series books written
Three railway engines, Thomas the tank engine, James the red engine
Railway where the huge sinkhole happened that engulfed a train and 4 lines of track
Designer of the A4 pacific
Sir Nigel Gresley
Creator of the first stone railways
Babylonians (Bonus 100 points if you said in 2,200 BC)
Reason why Wilbert Awdry created the stories on the island of Sodor
His son Christopher was sick with the measles when he was 3.
Name of most recent Thomas Re-boot
All engines go
Origin of train tokens
Mr. Henry Woodhouse proposed the idea in 1849
Class of the fastest train
J0 class Maglev
Creator of diesel train's FULL name
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
Passengers on Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne
982 (bonus 100 for saying 675 deaths)