Card No. 32

The answers

1. Since 1836

   A narrow-gauge slate railway in North Wales

   Still going

   The Ffestiniog is the oldest surviving railway company in the world. Slate wagons used to roll 13.5 miles down to Porthmadog by gravity, and horses pulled the empties back up.

2. Since 1894

   A drawbridge over the Thames in London

   Still going

   Tower Bridge still lifts for tall ships, about 800 times a year. In its first year, 1894, it lifted 6,194 times.

3. Since 2009

   NASA's Kepler planet-hunting space telescope

   Done for 2018

   Kepler ran out of fuel and NASA retired it on October 30, 2018. It was planned for 3.5 years, lasted about 9.5, and found 2,662 planets.

4. Since 803

   A restaurant inside St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg, Austria

   Still going

   Still serving. It was first written about in 803, and it now seats 706 people across 12 dining rooms.

5. Since 1938

   The original rear-engine Volkswagen Beetle

   Done for 2003

   The last original Beetle was built in Puebla, Mexico, at 9:05 a.m. on July 30, 2003. The count was 21,529,464.