WIN 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 standard family ticket valid on one of the participating operators. Send your completed crossword and contact details to: R831 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 August 4 2017.

Clues Across 7 You’ll be in trouble when young people start to abandon Todmorden-Burnley line (3, 2)

8 Fictional train and I join engineering supervisor on keyboards (7)

10 I left Old English trains worried that I was committing and act of betrayal (7)

11 Used backwards and forwards in 3 (5)

12 Scoundrel is trapped inside cattle shelters on the Glasgow Subway (10)

16 She was an infrequent user of the train service… and it took so long to find out! (3, 7)

20 LO red is considered more advanced (5)

21 Always appreciated by tall people sitting in trains (7) 23 Band who released the single

ElectricTrains in 1995 (7) 24 Assign a Rover a sell-by-date, but halfway through remove it (5) Clues Down 1 See 18 Down 2 and 15 Down West Highland Line station (5, 7) 3 …and so on… and so on… for signalling component (1,1, 1, 1)

4 A solitary London Transport 1973 stock - does it cost six million dollars? (6)

5 1970s sitcom which featured St Pancras station in the opening credits (8)

6 Does musician have his own nautical transport at rail-served power station? (7)

9 Retracted Route Utilisation Strategy is then applied to the East in France… and can be relied upon above all others (6)

13 Rail regulator joined the queen and I and engineering supervisor in search for clockwork models (8)

14 Polite term for those who endanger their lives by trespassing on the railway (6) 15 See 2 Down 17 Papa leads 20 on reclaimed land (6) 18 and 1 Down and 22 Down Class 55 Deltic is regal but not particularly colourful north of the border (5,5, 4)

19 Cautionary signal found by a gate at Derwent Valley Line station (5)

22 See 18 Down