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9 and 6 down London’s newest railway, Reading-Shenfield (9,4)10 Station between Oxford and Bicester (5)11 ___ Bridge, last station before Fort William (5)12 Somerset & Dorset tunnel south of 24 down (5,4)13 Former BR express parcels service (3,4)14 The ‘S’ of former BR Sector RES (7)17 ___, GWR No. 1026 (5)19 Yeovil ___ Mill station (3)20 Initials of the pre-Grouping ‘Brighton Line’ company (5)21 Town that had West and East stations, the latter on the Eden Valley line (7) 22 , GWR No. 5987 (7) 24 Surrey cemetery that was served by the Necropolis station at Waterloo (9)26 ___ and Claribel, Thomas the Tank Engine’s carriages (5) 28 Common name for a BR station name sign in regional colours (5) 29 Electrification method in use on former Southern Region lines (5,4)

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