| LNER | Name of a British railway company, 1923-48 and since 2018 |
| BRADSHAW | George ___, publisher, from 1839, of a British railway timetable (8) |
| STELLA | First name of a British fashion designer and a European beer (6) |
| CHARLES | The name of a British king who ended up on the wrong side of a civil war |
| MIRANDA | Town on Firth of Thames, also the name of a British TV series (7) |
| GWR | Railway company, 1833-1947 and since 2015 (initials) (1,1,1) |
| HMS | Letters before the name of a British naval vessel (inits)(1,1,1) |
| BENTLEY | Alberta town sharing the name of a British luxury car |
| ATTILA | ____ the Stockbroker is the stage name of a British punk poet |
| POEM | Rhyme time: If you like to write rhymes to have a good time, You should write a ___ (And since nobody else can write it like you, Yours will be one of a kind) |
| ANDREWNEIL | Former editor of the Sunday Times, founding chairman of Sky TV and later GB News, former BBC presenter and since 2008 the chairman of Press Holdings (6,4) |
| MICHAEL | ------- Portillo, former MP and host of Great British Railway Journeys (7) |
| HORNBY | Meccano inventor who founded a model railway company; or, the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy (6) |
| WATERS | Pink Floyd co-founder who embarked on a solo career in 1984 and since released albums including Radio K.A.O.S. and Amused to Death (6) |
| SLASH | Stage name of US musician Saul Hudson, lead guitarist of the band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1996 and since 2016 (5) |
| REID | CME of North British Railway designed 'J88' class 0-6-0Ts (4) |
| EMBRYOS | Uplifting part involving British railway's early stages of development |
| ELAINE | _ _ _ _ _ _ Seagriff - Director of Strategy and Planning at the Great British Railways Transition Team, (6) |
| BANJO | Surname of Ashley, part of the dance troupe who won BGT in 2009 and a judge on Dancing On Ice since 2018 (5) |
| STOWE | - House; ducal palace set within 750 acres of parkland in Buckinghamshire that was saved from demolition in 1922 and since used as a school (5) |
