Railway veto at first disappoints militia (9)

Guardian Cryptic #29782 | 15 Down | 2025-08-25
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

TRAIN (railway) BAN (veto) + D[isappoints] – I thought this was a new word for me, then realised I knew it from A Level (Civil War) History, in its original form ‘trained band’, see here

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