| STEPHENSON | George, English engineer associated with the locomotive the Rocket (10) |
| BRUNEL | Isambard Kingdom, English engineer associated with the Great Western Railway (6) |
| TREVITHICK | English engineer who constructed the world's first steam railway locomotive (10) |
| HOVERCRAFT | Vehicle invented by English engineer Christopher Cockerell in the 19505 (10) |
| CRUIKSHANK | George --, English caricaturist and book illustrator (1792-1878) (10) |
| ZATOPEK | Nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive", the runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Olympics, the third in a last-minute marathon, a distance he had never attempted before (7) |
| BOGIE | This part of the locomotive engine would sound familiar to the golfer (5) |
| TRAINEE | Apprentice taking the locomotive to the points (7) |
| STANIER | Surname of the locomotive engineer commemorated by LMS No. 6256 (7) |
| BUTTERWORTH | George, English composer of the song cycle Love Blows As The Wind Blows (11) |
| CRABBE | George, English narrative poet who wrote The Village and The Borough (6) |
| BOOSTER | A person or thing with a rocket-like effect; or, the rocket itself (7) |
| DRIVINGWHEELS | Those powering the locomotive, guiding Herbie Ferris and Catherine - a real firecracker! (7,6) |
| EYESTRAIN | Looks at the locomotive and gets ocular discomfort (9) |
| TRAIN | I rant about the locomotive (5) |
| SORE | Part of the locomotive's or engine's tender |
| MEREDITH | George, English Victorian novelist who wrote The Egoist (8) |
| LILLO | George -, English dramatist whose The London Merchant was first staged in 1731 (5) |
| ORWELL | George, English novelist and essayist who coined the terms Big Brother and doublethink (6) |
| WILLIAMS | George, English philanthropist who founded the YMCA in 1844 (8) |
