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Particularly as most foreigners arriving at a new city are probably not going to expect to be gouged for £25 each just to get to the city - most other cities I've been to (at least in mainland Europe) the main transit into the city is charged at standard metro rates, maybe one extra 'zone' - as...

Just realised I mistyped the question from my notes, and missed a bit - it should have said "self-contained railways" - i.e. not connected to the mainland. On that basis, I'll hand the baton to @LSWR Cavalier, for getting the most based on the question as asked. Mea culpa... The list I had...

The British Isles consists of a rather large number of islands. Excluding Great Britain and Ireland, there were (if I've got my figures right), 11 of them that had, or have, railways. Which 11?

1 is Danny John-Jules, who played Cat and Dwayne respectively. (He actually played characters called Dwayne in both series - Dwayne Dibbley in Red Dwarf, Dwayne Myers in DiP)

Isn't the art project musical? A piece being played on the church organ that will take centuries to finish?

St Kitts and Marie-Galante - That on St Kitts served the sugar trade, and now runs as a round-the-island tourist ride (not really a heritage operation IMHO, more about sightseeing). No idea about Marie-Galante, that's simply the first French island I could find the right distance away!

Vatican City it is - 0.3km! Monaco has over 1km as the tunnel runs on their side of the border for quite a bit.

This should be an easy one - Which country in Europe has the lowest amount of railway mileage? (excluding those that have none)

Frankfurt-am-main and Frankfurt-an-der-Oder?

Is No2 the location of the new Tesla Factory?

Nevil Shute Norway has appeared in this thread before... Southampton was the starting point of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which was built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Pulborough lies on the River Arun, the source of which is in St Leonard's Forest, near to Mannings Heath.

8) Selwyn Patterson is the commissioner in "Death in Paradise"

Chichester's patron saint is St Richard, who wsa born in Droitwich in 1197

There are two villages called Osgodby in North Yorkshire - the other lies just outside Scarborough.