Cryptic clues = station name

[Welshman]

No, sorry.
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Time a clue:

The poet was W H Auden.

 

[Meridian richard]

Its one of two collaborations between Auden and Benjamin Britten
Either
Night Train heading for Glasgow
Or
The way to the sea heading for Portsmouth

 

[Welshman]

Yes.
It's the Night Mail.
Heading for Glasgow.

 

[Meridian richard]

You could sit or smoke here

 

[Seacook]

You could sit or smoke here

Chesterfield

If it's right,

slide around Yemeni leader

 

[LexyBoy]

Chesterfield

If it's right,

slide around Yemeni leader

Disley. (I had to check whether it was Sidley or Disley as I'd never heard of it!)

open floor.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Secure topless beetle

 

[hmp455]

Bricket Wood?

 

[Seacook]

Secure topless beetle

Lockerbie!

Open floor

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Lockerbie is correct. Open floor.

 

[hmp455]

Floor taken

Heavy crossing over water

 

[Meridian richard]

Tonbridge

 

[hmp455]

Correct

Your floor

(sorry for the delay-internet was being petulant!)

 

[Meridian richard]

Add a direction into a high place

 

[Welshman]

Westcliff?

 

[Meridian richard]

I'm afraid not!
(Into a high place, not before)

 

[Johnuk123]

South Bank

 

[Meridian richard]

No, sorry!

Clue:
Welshman may get the high place easier than the rest of us

 

[Welshman]

Snowdown?

 

[Meridian richard]

Snowdown?

Correct!
Adding the direction West (W) into a high place.

 

[Welshman]

I would never have got it without your clue!


A debtor's paradise with this in place?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Crediton?

 

[Welshman]

Crediton?

The place I actually had in mind was Dunbar

["Dun" can also be a verb meaning persistent persuing of a debt, or a noun - someone who persues a debt; and the "bar" is obvious].

But, thinking about it, your "Crediton" is just as good, so, yes, I accept, and well done!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Two thirds of a glutton leads jazzman

 

[plymothian]

Gobowen?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Not Gobowen.

Perhaps a clue is called for.

The jazzman is Lionel.

 

[Meridian richard]

Wolverhampton?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

"Wolverhampton is correct.

(Glutton is an alternative name for a wolverine...)

 

[Meridian richard]

A viral infection specific to Lancashire

 

[Welshman]

Mumps?

[as in Oldham?]