WIN INTER -CITY TICKE TS

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: R837 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 October 27 2017.

Clues Across

1 Lightweight hooked pole used to move the trolley pole of a tramcar (6) 7 Country whose rail services are operated by Central East African Railways (6) 8 What rugby players may have if track is removed (4, 3) 10 We hear that part of West Anglia Main Line station is neat and tidy (7) 11 and 13 Across Make meat go an appropriate colour at District Line station (7, 5) 13 See 11 Across 15 We assume singer Gary prefers cars to trains! (5) 17 SE train turns into something more unpleasant (7) 19 See 6 Down 21 What a spokesman may do to old track at Whitemoor Yard! (7) 22 __ _ _ _ _ Hill - railroad that operated in Virginia in the 19th century (6) 23 We hear trainee has to wait for his time to come (6)

Clues Down

1 Carry art out backwards from Shinkansen colloquially. Read all about it! (8) 2 Mobile test train introduced in 1972 (6) 3 Head out of Gobowen, and not west or north, and it could get a bit windy! (4) 4 Group for a long time produced medical supplies (8) 5 She’s left in carriage when silver is stolen (6) 6 and 19 Across Preserved GWR steam locomotive owned by the National Railway Museum (4,2, 5) 9 A hill encountered by 2 was capable of causing suffering (9) 12 Revere news chief - as winners were at National Rail Awards (8) 14 Rail franchise operation taken over by Arriva in 2016 (8) 16 BR Class 86 scrapped in 2003 (6) 18 In short, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (6) 19 Killer beast encountered in Llantwit Major-Cardiff Central train (4) 20 InterCity working to become worthy of veneration (4)