| SALARY | Average Network Rail one is £38,274 a year, according to www.payscale.com (6) |
| HILARY | - of Poitiers; saint whose feast day falls on January 13, the coldest day of the year according to folklore (6) |
| INTERNET | Business connecting one to www (8,7,8) |
| PERANNUM | One every year according to female with word of hesitation (3,5) |
| TERMINATE | Finish one semester every four years, according to report? (9) |
| MARY | Most popular girl's name of the past 100 years, according to the Social Security Administration |
| JAMES | Most popular boy's name of the past 100 years, according to the Social Security Administration |
| ENRICH | To inspire, first enhance Network Rail in company hierarchy (6) |
| SLINGO | Leader of the task force looking at Network Rail's response to severe weather incidents, following the fatal 2020 Carmont derailment (6) |
| INDOOR | I and Network Rail accept Driver Only Operation... but under cover (6) |
| HAINES | Network Rail chief executive (6, 7) |
| OFRAIL | Network Rail's regulator (6,2,4,3,4) |
| NICKER | Chocolate bar with no wrapper is £1 |
| LLAMA | It is £ to get a degree on an animal (5) |
| AILERON | Rail one has to modify before using on an airplane wing (7) |
| MEASURE | What Network Rail's Class 73/9 is required to do, nominally (7) |
| SNARE | Network Rail's foremost letters are sealed in a stamped addressed envelope. It's a trap! (5) |
| LEEDS | Network Rail-managed station situated close to the city's Queens Hotel (5) |
| ASIDE | Drag Network Rail backwards out of Arnside station - could prompt a remark! (5) |
| ROADBED | Network Rail supporter, elevated to the Lords possibly without notice (7) |
