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Southern & Silverton Rail, a Common card
Southern & Silverton Rail was an Australian rail operator founded in 1886 as the Silverton Tramway Company.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 2,300
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Southern & Silverton Rail quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Southern & Silverton Rail card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It then ______ to operating hook-and-pull services and in the mid-1990s rebranded to Silverton Rail.
Answer
diversified. It then diversified to operating hook-and-pull services and in the mid-1990s rebranded to Silverton Rail. From the Southern & Silverton Rail article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Southern & Silverton Rail was an Australian rail operator founded in ____ as the Silverton Tramway Company.
Answer
1880s. Southern & Silverton Rail was an Australian rail operator founded in 1886 as the Silverton Tramway Company. From the Southern & Silverton Rail article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The company operated the 1067 mm Silverton Tramway, conveying silver-lead-zinc concentrates 58 kilometres from Broken Hill to the South Australian border.
- In 1970, its main line was bypassed by the newly standardised, government-funded line from Broken Hill to Port Pirie.
- It then diversified to operating hook-and-pull services and in the mid-1990s rebranded to Silverton Rail.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Southern & Silverton Rail article was read about 2,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Southern & Silverton Rail
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Southern & Silverton Rail (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marcus Wong Wongm, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
