Crossword Competition

Clues Across

1 What a ghost train is intended to do to you (5)

8 Devices attached to a rail whereby electrical contacts are operated by the passage of a train (8)

9 _ _ _ _ _ am Rhein - station east of Schaffhausen in Switzerland (5)

10 and 20 Across Colloquialism for BR Class 59 diesel electric freight locomotives built by General Motors (7, 5)

11 Two deer meet at a Class 43 Warship! (7)

13 Tell-tale who works at a railway station (13)

18 and 5 Down British railwayman (1822-1902) who built the first railway in India (7, 7)

19 Home of literary sisters on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (7) 20 See 10 Across 21 Highland Main Line station (8) 22 Reduces speed on approach to station (5)

Clues Down

2 and 16 Down Get to the point! Scissors come in handy when your rail destination is Enfield or Wimbledon, perhaps (3, 2, 3, 5)

3 Lightweight diesel or petrol vehicle used for branch line services (7) 4 Tyne & Wear Metro station (8, 5) 5 See 18 Across 6 Canadian company which ran a rail-served smelter facility in the North East (5)

7 _ _ _ _ _ Place - station on the New York City Subway (5)

12 Overnight sleeper train connecting Moscow and St Petersburg (3, 5)

14 Brunel biographer and founder member of Talyllyn Railway (3, 4)

15 Boring? Not if you can get black gold to the surface (3, 4) 16 See 2 Down 17 Expect, we hear, to have this when your train is delayed (5)