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Prize crossword

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1 Set of points and associated equipment (7)

5 ___ & Wakes Colne station, home of the East Anglian Railway Museum (7) 9 and 10 ECML station and tunnels in Hertfordsh­ire (7,3)

11 Tram ___, GWR station south-west of Hereford (3)

12 GNR junction station between Allington and Sleaford (9)

14 ___, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway (5)

15 See 7 down

17 Ayrshire town with Harbour, South Beach and Town stations (9)

19 Nickname for the pioneering GNR ‘Atlantics’, from the gold rush of the time (9)

21 ‘The Royal ___’, former Paddington­Penzance express (5)

24 Airport served by a Parkway station (5)

25 ___ Scott (‘A1’) or ___ Raleigh (‘Lord Nelson’) (3,6)

27 ___ Street, station that became Walthamsto­w Central (3)

28 East ___ and West ___, District Line stations (3)

29 Station on the Epsom Downs branch (7)

31 George ___, American-born luxury railway carriage pioneer (7)

32 ___, Higham & Wellingbor­ough Railway, heritage line (7)

Down

1 Station on the Exmouth branch (7)

2 Derogatory nickname for a Class 24 or 25 (3)

3 ___ Swell, ‘A2’ No 60517 (5) 4 Facility at (30 down) Dalby, previously operated by Alstom

(4,5)

5 Alternativ­e name for a signal box (5)

6 Headquarte­rs of the ‘Watercress Line’ (9)

7 St ___, Bristol loco shed (7,5) 8 City that had a Midland Railway St Marks station (7) 13 Constituen­t union of the RMT (1,1,1)

16 Castle ___, headquarte­rs of the Colne Valley Railway (9) 18 ‘Walker’s Train ___’, rotary signalling device as seen on the Bluebell Railway (9)

19 Type of multiple-jet steam loco blast pipe (7)

20 ___ Village and ___ Basin, on the Upwell Tramway (7)

22 ‘___ and cover’, tunnelling method (3)

23 Junction for the GWR’s Fairford branch (7)

25 St ___, ‘A3’ No 60112 (5) 26 ‘Jubilee’ No 45737 (5)

30 Word preceeding ‘Heath’, ‘Hill’ and ‘Street’ in station names

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