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10 Questions you must ask at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway!

KS3 English Spoken Language Asking Questions Listening Skills Recording & Summarising
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Vintage steam locomotive No. 11 running on the railway tracks

Student Introduction

  • The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a working railway that shows us what the steam era of rail was like on the Isle of Wight
  • It represents the past, and so also shows us what it was like in other areas of the country
  • There are many interesting facts that you can find out whilst you are visiting
Cartoon of a station guard in a peaked cap holding a green flag next to wooden crates

Questions

(You may get several answers)

  1. How does a steam train work?
  2. Why are most trains today electric?
  3. How many people does it take to run this railway?
  4. How long does it take to prepare a steam engine for use?
  5. How old are the trains used today?

Can you also find out the following information?

Collage showing a signalman in a signal box, engineering staff in a workshop, and a steam train approaching a signal
  1. Why bother restoring old trains, why not just have new ones?
  2. Why do the trains not have toilets?
  3. What is the signal box used for?
  4. How many stations did the Isle of Wight used to have? (use the map to help you)
  5. Why did many lines and stations close on the Isle of Wight?
Map showing the historical and current railway lines and stations across the Isle of Wight