Cryptic clues = station name

[DasLunatic]

Some would call this creature highly annoying.

 

[Calthrop]

In desperation: I think it's the Little Red Hen in the fable. The other characters therein, found her as annoying as heck -- getting very up-herself about how busy and important she was, and how she had to do everything, because none of them could be bothered to do anything at all. If the Hen is stopped, for good; you could say she's "done" -- so: Hendon.

 

[DasLunatic]

The creature may have rhotacism...

 

[DaleCooper]

Elmers End? (Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny)

 

[DasLunatic]

Elmers End? (Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny)

Elmers End is what I'm after. Elmer = Elmo (red thing in Sesame Street)

Your floor

 

[DaleCooper]

Elmers End is what I'm after. Elmer = Elmo (red thing in Sesame Street)

Your floor

That's the second one today where I've got it right by getting it wrong.

Next clue:

In comparison to this station facilities at Balcombe (BAB) rank somewhat lower

 

[cadoxton]

Can't make sense of everything up to, and including, 'rank', so...

Riddlesdown?

 

[DaleCooper]

Can't make sense of everything up to, and including, 'rank', so...

Riddlesdown?

No that's not it.

Hint: You should consider why I had to include the station code (BAB) in the clue

Since setting this clue I have discovered that to be factually correct the last word should be "higher" not "lower" however this makes no material difference as it was just a filler to complete the sentence .

 

[DasLunatic]

BAB is short-hand for Bundesautobahn, which is the German equivalent to a motorway. Based on that, I reckon the answer is St Germans.

 

[DaleCooper]

BAB is short-hand for Bundesautobahn, which is the German equivalent to a motorway. Based on that, I reckon the answer is St Germans.

Imaginative but wrong.

 

[Calthrop]

"Bab" -- short for "baby", I believe -- is the standard affectionate form of address in Birmingham and environs, from pretty well anyone to anyone. So -- sticking a pin in the map -- Rowley Regis.

 

[DaleCooper]

"Bab" -- short for "baby", I believe -- is the standard affectionate form of address in Birmingham and environs, from pretty well anyone to anyone. So -- sticking a pin in the map -- Rowley Regis.

Not Rowley Regis nor anywhere else in the Midlands, in fact it's in the South West. The reason I used the station code was that I couldn't find a station that ended with the appropriate letter.

 

[Jona26]

Hinton Admiral?

 

[DaleCooper]

Hinton Admiral?

No but you're quite close.

Don't forget this hint I gave earlier which stresses the importance of a particular letter.

The reason I used the station code was that I couldn't find a station that ended with the appropriate letter.

 

[cadoxton]

Barnham?
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Ahhhhhhhhh!

Now I've got it, but can't repost

 

[DaleCooper]

Barnham?
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Ahhhhhhhhh!

Now I've got it, but can't repost

Of course you can.

 

[cadoxton]

Of course you can.

Lol, the previous time I double guessed it caused uproar...

anyways, Branksome?

 

[DaleCooper]

Lol, the previous time I double guessed it caused uproar...

anyways, Branksome?

I can only think of one person who would have complained and anyway you haven't double guessed as my post intervened.

As you said the correct answer is:

In comparison to this station facilities at Balcombe (BAB) rank somewhat lower

Your turn...

 

[cadoxton]

Next...

kudos is not underneath this station

 

[Jona26]

Next...

kudos is not underneath this station

St Keyne Wishing Well Halt?

 

[cadoxton]

St Keyne Wishing Well Halt?

Not this.

 

[Calthrop]

Again, a total stab in the dark -- arrived at by "logic" so silly that I'd be embarrassed to explain: Upper Holloway?

 

[cadoxton]

Again, a total stab in the dark -- arrived at by "logic" so silly that I'd be embarrassed to explain: Upper Holloway?

Not this either.

 

[DaleCooper]

Crediton?

 

[cadoxton]

Crediton?

this.

Your floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Crediton?

this.

Your floor.

Damn ! So obvious, once you see it done -- but that's the puzzle game. I was totally focused on "uppers and lowers", and blinded to everything else.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next ckue:

Stoker on a GWR locomotive gets us here.

 

[cadoxton]

Brampton?

 

[Gutfright]

Bramhall?

 

[DaleCooper]

Brampton?

So close you must be kicking yourself.

Bramhall?

Was it that obvious? I must make them harder in future.

Your turn...