Crossword

Angry utterance (9).

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Clues Across

1 and 4 Across and 8 Across Network Rail’s regulator (6, 2, 4, 3, 4) 4 See 1 Across 8 See 1 Across 10 Put inscription on disorderly BR Class 42 D804 Avenger (7) 11 A well-_ _ _ _ _ machine will run more smoothly (5) 12 Area in Manchester served by the Etihad Campus Metrolink stop (9) 14 I rate SPAD as quite literally very different (9) 18 See 2 Down 19 How 9 Down is known on US railroads (7) 21 Nothing is included in train schedule, but it gives him something to crow about! (7) 22 Two men unite on island where Nelson was imprisoned (6) 23 I sat facing the wrong way in Sheffield Supertram initially, and endured a period of inactivity (6)

Clues Down

1 1, 4 and 8 has control of Automatic Train Operation - and he’ll tell you all about it (6) 2 and 18 Across Merseyside power station fuelled by coal imported by train, which closed in 2020 (8, 5) 3 Short stretches of track that link lines (6) 5 eg: DfT - I consider to move in a nervous manner (6) 6 Palindromic foursome who presumably would commute into London’s busiest station (4) 7 Colour scheme for train and for its staff (6) 9 Rail-placed device that acts as a warning signal to train drivers (9) 13 I restate … and restates (8) 14 Diversion necessary if route is blocked (6) 15 Get one’s own back by cutting off end of BR Class 42 D804 (6) 16 Tractive _ _ _ _ _ _ - maximum force at the rim of a locomotive’s driving wheels (6) 17 Docklands Light Railway station with a Mediterranean air? (6) 20 Organisation that looks into incidents on the railway (1, 1, 1, 1)