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1 Old English for village or hamlet, as can be seen at Bay, Culvert or Junction on the rail network in East Anglia (6) 4 Open areas where there might be unoccupied seats, for example (6) 8 It took place at Soham station in December (7) 10 Communicated, we hear, when replacement track was installed (7) 11 See 6 Down 12 Perhaps used by British Transport Police officers to detain suspects (9) 14 1941 movie where Johnnie Aysgarth first meets Lina McLaidlaw in a train carriage (9) 18 Inside… a train, somehow? (5) 19 Soothe Jim? He left to make cocktails! (7)

21 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Electric - manufacturer of locomotives and traction equipment (7) 22 Railway station to the east of Wisbech in the Fens - opened in 1848 and closed in 1968 (6) 23 _ _ _ _ _ _ de rail - term for a tracklayer in France (6)

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