Is the station crossword free to download?

Yes. It's a free one-page PDF with no sign-up and no email address. Print as many copies as you need, including for a classroom or a club.

What age is the crossword for?

It's written for ages 6 to 10. The clues are plain English rather than cryptic, and each one tells you how many letters the answer has.

Are all the answers real stations?

Every one. Six real stations and cities on the British rail network, which is what makes it worth solving: you finish it knowing six more places you could actually go.

Is there an answer sheet?

Not at the moment. The clues are written to be worked out together, and the letter counts plus the crossing letters mean you can check yourself as you go.

Illustration of London Paddington station, with trains under its great arched glass roof

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London and Famous Stations Crossword for Kids

A crossword where every answer is a place you can actually catch a train to. Six clues, six real stations, and not one invented word among them.

The clues are written to be solved out loud together rather than in silence. A famous London station with a marmalade-loving bear named after it. A Berkshire town that sounds like what you do with a good book. The biggest city in Scotland. Children who have never heard of Preston will still get there from "a city station in Lancashire, up in the north west".

That's the reason it works as a station crossword rather than a general one: solving it leaves a child knowing six real places on the railway map, which is exactly the sort of thing that comes back out on the next journey.

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London and Famous Stations Crossword for Kids printable sheet

Ages

6 to 10

Clues

Cost

Free

Pages to print

What's on the sheet

Six clues, one across and five down. Every answer is a real station on the network, so nothing here is invented.

One across

The long one through the middle, ten letters, and the easiest in the puzzle if anyone in the family has read the books or seen the films.

4 across: a famous London station, with a marmalade-loving bear named after it (10)

Five down

The rest run downwards off the long answer. Two London stations, two northern cities and one Berkshire town, and each clue gives the letter count so you know what you're aiming for.

1 down: a Berkshire town station; it sounds like what you do with a good book (7)
2 down: a grand London station named after a queen (8)
3 down: a town station near Manchester, famous for its football team (6)
4 down: a city station in Lancashire, up in the north west (7)
5 down: the biggest city and station in Scotland (7)

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Tips for the grown-ups

Start with four across

The ten-letter answer runs the width of the grid and every down clue crosses it, so getting that one first hands you a letter towards all five of the others.

Let the letter counts do the work

Every clue ends with the number of letters in brackets. For a child who is still building confidence, counting the empty squares and matching it to the number is often the nudge that unlocks it.

Find them on a map afterwards

Six answers, six real places. Pulling up a rail map and finding where they all are turns a ten-minute puzzle into a proper geography lesson nobody notices they're having.