| LIVERAIL | Source of railway power |
| OUTRAGE | Shock about railway power failure (7) |
| TRAIN | Word for a dragging part of a robe originally, later a caravan of camels, line of gunpowder, series of railway carriages or sequence of thoughts (5) |
| RAKE | A hay- or grass-gathering tool; a thin horse; a herd of colts; a string of wagons; a train of railway carriages; or, a debauched man of fashion, aka roue (4) |
| THOMAS | Engineer who built thousands of miles of railway in the 19th century - including the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway and the Great Northern (6, 7) |
| BRASSEY | Engineer who built thousands of miles of railway in the 19th century - including the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway and the Great Northern (6, 7) |
| KNUR | Knot of railway workers by end of track |
| TRAINSPOTTER | Collector of the numbers of railway locomotives (12) |
| LOCKE | Civil engineer ranked as one of the pioneers of railway development (5) |
| GESTATION | Development of plan, say, to be mounted in front of railway terminal |
| HEATHERY | Moorland east of railway having flecks of various colours (8) |
| GAUGE | Distance between the rails of a line of railway track, standardised in Britain and elsewhere as 4ft 8.5 in (5) |
| DRIVERS | Profession of railway workers who are members of ASLEF (7) |
| LIBRARY | Sign in front of railway one of 16Ac's many gifts (7) |
| AMPHIBIAN | A protected class of species that can thrive in areas of railway biodiversity - for example, the great crested newt (9) |
| BRADSHAW | George _, founder of a series of 'Railway Companions' in 1839 (8) |
| ELLIS | Hamilton, prolific writer of railway books and painter in the National Railway Museum (5) |
| GEORGE | Regnal name of British Monarch on the throne at the time of railway nationalisation following the Transport Act In 1947 (6) |
| EVERSHOT | Location of railway station (closed 1966) on the Heart of Wessex Line (8) |
| ROBERT | First name of the son of the 'Father of Railways' (6) |
