Crossword Competition

Clues Across

7 and 8 Across He will be joining Network Rail later this year as its new chief executive (6, 6) 8 See 7 Across 10 With one of these at home, you can produce your own ticket (7) 11 Right Away! Revolutionary gets revenge on German train (5) 12 See 17 Across 13 Settle & Carlisle livestock is told to shoo! (5) 17 and 12 Across Material carried by Cornish freight trains (5, 4) 18 Global System for Mobile Communications - Railway, more familiarly (1, 1, 1, 1) 22 Postman provides input/output for this paved outdoor feature (5) 23 Wirral Line station (7) 24 Stephenson’s locomotive is modified slightly… and makes a lot of noise (6) 25 and 14 Down Chairman of Vivarail (6, 7)

Clues Down

1 Framework contains Automatic Train Protection for Sammy, Frank, Dean, etc (3, 4) 2 Laira MD could be useful if you’re all at sea! (7) 3 It’s slow on an Italian train (5) 4 Master builder uses hydrogen with 25 (7) 5 On Inter City Express - and held in reserve (2, 3) 6 It’s crooked on King’s Cross St Pancras-Kew Bridge Tube train (5) 9 Lady pronounces “a handbag?” at Waterloo-Reading line station (9) 14 See 25 Across 15 Loiters around Portuguese railway station (7) 16 Station on Paris-Bordeaux rail line (7) 19 Crooked feature visible from Midland Main Line station (5) 20 Railway slang for a signal - did it come from a branch line? (5) 21 Floss during Barbican-Dymchurch trip? (5)