Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

As I said, an easy one. Your turn to set the next exercise.

May the respective Christian and Norse gods bless you, sir. (It so happens -- which helped -- that some four years ago, I set a question here, answer being that station; with a very similar clue.)


Close by, but not in, the county of witches: request or order (concerning watercourse) to one such, who transmogrifies different elements / substances.

 

[D6130]

Ribblehead?

 

[Calthrop]

Not Ribblehead, I'm afraid.

 

[RDP]

Smithy Bridge?

 

[Calthrop]

Sorry, no; but "answer station" is in the more-northerly part of England.

 

[DaleCooper]

Close by, but not in, the county of witches: request or order (concerning watercourse) to one such, who transmogrifies different elements / substances.

Crossmyloof

Noun​

loof (plural loofs)

1. (nautical, obsolete) A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship.

 

[neilmc]

Askam (in Furness)?

 

[Calthrop]

Crossmyloof

I'd always wondered, re the station concerned, what a "loof" was -- now I know ! Thanks.

Askam (in Furness)?

Neither of the above, I'm afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

Smithy Bridge

 

[InkyScrolls]

Smithy Bridge

I'm having déjà vu here. . .

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm having déjà vu here. . .

Oops!

 

[DaleCooper]

Stone Crossing

 

[Calthrop]

Not Stone Crossing, I fear.

 

[Loppylugs]

Whatstandwell

 

[Calthrop]

Not Whatstandwell.

 

[DaleCooper]

Northwich

 

[Calthrop]

It isn't Northwich.

 

[Calthrop]

"Forward momentum" doesn't seem to be happening. Herewith, an alternative clue.

If one were to create (not necessarily on the Lancs. / Cheshire border) a garden railway on an Anglo-German model; with a locomotive shedded at the stylish shelter overlooking a pretty view -- one might give the name, "matching and mixing", Gazebo'r* Lok to that machine.

* 'r: short for "her" -- or German geographic "of"

 

[InkyScrolls]

Glazebrook!

 

[Calthrop]

Glazebrook!

That's it, indeed. (Original clue, concerned asking the transmogrifying witch ["Lancashire Witches" -- Glazebrook nearly in Lancashire] to "glaze" the "brook" -- turn the water to glass.)

Yours to set the next one.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Thank you - that was a good one, though I approached it from completely the wrong angle!

The American dived before the Welsh meeting.

 

[Calthrop]

Dovey Junction?

 

[John Griffiths]

Holmes Chapel?

 

[InkyScrolls]

Dovey Junction?

That was quick! Over to you.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks. I'll lay off for a bit -- open floor, please.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks. I'll lay off for a bit -- open floor, please.

I'll have a go.

Next clue:

In this station it sounds like you are somewhere else instead.

 

[RDP]

Hampden Park?

 

[D6130]

Canada Water (DLR)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Hampden Park?

Not that...

Canada Water (DLR)?

...nor that.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Cambridge