Crossword

Win book on South West ‘47s’.

Clues Across

7 Simon _ _ _ _ _ - broadcaster who in a recent BBC series travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway (5)

8 and 22 Down On my command… … Helen has LUL overhauled (7, 4)

10 Used as a safety warning or for train despatch (7)

11 Delay Repay entitles you to make one if your train is late (5) 12 West Wales Line station (10) 16 What you gain after a day learning to drive a train at a heritage railway (10)

20 Great Northern at King’s Cross St Pancras, for example (5) 21 Fast - like a train in Germany (7) 23 See 5 Down 24 Attracted by London Underground colour (5)

Clues Down

1 Fight started by BR with piercing tool (5)

2 Task assigned when ’e and I tear rail union apart (5) 3 He travels in Llanaber-Talybont train (4) 4 See 5 Down 5 and 23 Across and 4 Down Coventry-based rail attraction that held a final open day in October before closing its doors (8, 7, 6)

6 Complaint when East Anglian Railway initially leads to dull pain (7) 9 Rush hour people in a race? (6)

13 Caused by passing trains, they can be dangerous to passengers standing too close to the platform edge (3, 5)

14 Partially obscured, he raced chariots at Bentham and Hurst Green stations, perhaps (3, 3)

15 Colloquial term for Moscow express electric train (7) 17 Tries to produce compositions (6) 18 County served by stations at Tralee and Killarney (5)

19 River crossed by West Coast Main Line south of Carstairs Junction (5)

22 See 8 Across