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INTER -CITY TICKETS

WELCOME to the RAIL Inter-City Crossword. We offer you the chance to win either a pair of First Class tickets or a standar one of the participating operators. Send your completed crossword and contact details to: R823 Inter-City Crossword, RAIL Magazine, Media House, Lynchwood, Peterborough Business Park, Peterborough PE2 6EA. First correct answer out of the hat wins the prize. Good luck! Closing date for entries is April 14 2017.

Clues Across

1 Let’s hope the Inland Revenue isn’t involved with 5 - it might result in a dreadful blunder (5)

8 Province crossed by the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway (8)

9 A holy man keeps his family safe inside… but is broke (5)

10 British Rail sales rep made lots of runs in the 1930s (7)

11 Country where the first rail lines included one from the capital to Villazon (7)

13 Managing Director at London Midland since 2011 (7, 6)

18 Polar opposites found inside three Unclassified carriages - Al then finds it most irregular (7)

19 Order for train drivers signified by single yellow light signal (7) 20 See 15 Down 21 Lines were like this for Debbie and her group in the late 1970s (8)

22 Type of wagon used to carry horses on gravity trains (5)

Clues Down

2 Class 50 resident at the Severn Valley Railway (3, 5)

3 France? I found it to be more flashy (7)

4 In the dark at railway feature near Skipton (3,4, 6) 5 Animal at King’s Cross eatery (7) 6 Wife of Prime Minister when Britain’s railways were privatised (5)

7 Pollute Far North Line station with radioactive Tritium (5)

12 Kept possession of Far North Line station besieged by angry deer (8)

14 Preserved station on the Lavender Line (7)

15 and 20 Across Famous British Museum item that was moved for safety during the First World War to the Postal Tube Railway (7, 5)

16 Corridor Open Plan vehicle initially used in the South East to offer capacity (5) 17 London Underground Conductor Rail Equipment can be filthy! (5)