NEW CROSS WORD PRIZE

Clues Across

1 _ _ _ _ _ _ Limited - Hobart passenger train operated until 1978 (6)

4 Morning examination is not concerned with righteousness (6)

8 Idolise a slightly modified BR Type 4 diesel hydraulic (7)

10 Represented by the ‘A’ in rail skills body NSAR (7)

11 Organisation for active and retired members of the transport industry (1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

12 BR multiple unit built for the SouthEast sector (9)

14 Profession of rail worker in Charles Dickens ghost story (9)

18 The Spanish revolutionary arrives at Spanish city accessible by rail from Alicante (5)

19 and 21 Across Actor who played lead role in BBC 1970s adaptation of 14 (7, 7) 21 See 19 Across 22 Loud and showy - like a station in France… almost? (6)

23 Mythical creature that was emblem for the Midland Railway (6)

Clues Down

1 Signal boxes or control cabins in a marshalling yard, as known in the US (6)

2 Dismantling locomotives - phosphorous removed to leave this residue (8) 3 Container beneath furnace to catch clinker (6) 5 US term for a steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement. Yum-yum! (6)

6 Ascended flowery grove on East Lancashire Line (4)

7 I leave RAIL heading the other way over river crossed by Gloucester-Newport line - to meet him in court (6)

9 Seasonal entertainment that in 2015-16 was staged at the National Railway Museum while York Theatre Royal was being refurbished (9)

13 Little-used station on Dublin-Wexford route (8)

14 Where rolling stock may be shunted or stabled (6)

15 Makes amends when Automatic Train Operation is used in every direction except west (6) 16 West Coastway Line station (6) 17 Have I got news for Paul at Southern-facing Thameslink station (6)

20 Northern Ireland Railways has nothing - it’s bleak (4)