Cryptic clues = station name

[Meridian richard]

A possible description of Ayers Rock

 

[Welshman]

Redhill?

 

[Meridian richard]

Is the correct answer

 

[Welshman]

Close to the abode of Three Billygoats.

 

[Buttsy]

Fairfield?

 

[Seacook]

Close to the abode of Three Billygoats.

Trowbridge, perhaps? It is close to troll bridge.

 

[Welshman]

Sorry neither of these. But Seacook is closer.

 

[ls2270]

Netherfield?

 

[SprinterMan]

Devil's Bridge (It used to be BR :P)

 

[Welshman]

Interesting guesses, but not what I had i mind.

Think of the children's nursery rhyme about the Three Billy-Goats Gruff.

 

[Trainfan344]

Redbridge?

 

[Seacook]

Stonebridge Park?

 

[Welshman]

Sorry - no - think of the rhyme.
Where did the Billy Goats live?

 

[Trainfan344]

Meadowhall?

 

[Welshman]

I think I'm going to call time on this one.

There have been some good suggestions re the Troll connection, but perhaps the the rhyme I used to sing as a child is no longer sung!

It was:-

On a bluff, on a bluff, there lived Three Billy Goats Gruff,
Little Billy Goat, Middle Billy Goat, Great Big Billy Goat Gruff.

So the abode was a bluff, and the station I alluded to is Brough.

Hey ho!

Open floor.

 

[Trainfan344]

Someone with an intrest in bridges would say this.

 

[Buttsy]

Corbridge

 

[Trainfan344]

Corbridge

Correct.

 

[Buttsy]

This is the area where you might find Bradley's pig?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

North Walsham?

 

[Buttsy]

North Walsham?

Correct

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Non-officers in support.

 

[Welshman]

Branksome?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Branksome?

Nope. Perhaps a clue is needed here, or fellow forum users may 'arbor bad thoughts about me...

 

[DaveHarries]

Poole?

Dave

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Not Poole, much further north...

 

[plymothian]

think we may need another clue

 

[Buttsy]

Manningtree?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Further clue then:

Found within the Greensbro Raceway

 

[plymothian]

Found within the Greensbro Raceway