Trains Quiz: questions and answers
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1. Where does the word "train" come from?
Latin
2. What is the name given to the rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train?
Locomotive
3. Who built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive?
Richard Trevithick
4. What does SNCF stand for?
Societé nationale des chemins de fer français
5. What is the current speed record for a wheeled train?
574.9 km/h
6. When was Russian Railways established?
September 18, 2003
7. Where did the history of rail transport begin?
Ancient Greece
8. What is the world's largest single operator rapid transit system by the number of stations?
New York City Subway
9. Which is the world's busiest rapid transit system?
Beijing Subway
10. Who was depicted as "The Modern Colossus of Roads" in 1879?
William Henry Vanderbilt