Prize crossword
Across
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