-
Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Cryptic clues = station name
- Thread starter paulravuslante
- Start date
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R
RailUK Forums
BurtonM
Member
Cannon Street?
Karl
On Moderation
Craven Arms?
(Open floor if it's correct)
(Open floor if it's correct)
Last edited:
Craven Arms it is -- open floor, as per instruction.
DaleCooper
Established Member
Another one from me to keep it going:
Björn from Sweden is known as Edward in this village.
Björn from Sweden is known as Edward in this village.
Seacook
Member
DaleCooper
Established Member
Seacook is right so it's open floor - again!
Foolish person and motors giant close to Auld Reekie
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Can't think of a hint as such, which wouldn't give it away. Offering an alternative (long-winded, I'm afraid) clue:
This station is in Scotland. Supposing it weren't -- one might imagine an Anglo-Saxon official with news of the local militia or "fyrd", numbering fifty men, being unwilling to turn out and fight: reporting -- using a Roman numeral -- in a muddlesome way, fyrd L AWOL.
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Can't think of a hint as such, which wouldn't give it away. Offering an alternative (long-winded, I'm afraid) clue:
This station is in Scotland. Supposing it weren't -- one might imagine an Anglo-Saxon official with news of the local militia or "fyrd", numbering fifty men, being unwilling to turn out and fight: reporting -- using a Roman numeral -- in a muddlesome way, fyrd L AWOL.
Last edited:
Seacook
Member
Presumably Wallyford
Wallyford it is -- your floor.
Seacook
Member
The next clue is:
Beefy bogus journeyman?
Beefy bogus journeyman?
Frantically thrashing around: Oxenholme Lake District?? -- episode from long ago, with a cattle-thief from the Cumbrian central mountains mounting an expedition to more settled parts, and when making off with his haul, claiming to be legitimately taking his "oxen home" -- thus being a "bogus journey-man"...
Seacook
Member
You are on the right lines with the beefy part of the clue but derailed bu the rest.
Oxford Circus??? ("ford circus" somehow equating to "bogus journeyman", in a way which I can't fathom)
Seacook
Member
No, that's not it.
DaleCooper
Established Member
I dunno; I'll just have to invent one:
Is it the Borsetshire village of Cowsham Clapton?
Is it the Borsetshire village of Cowsham Clapton?
Seacook
Member
I though that was in Barsetshire. It's not the one either way.
Zamracene749
Member
I reckon it's just up the road from 'Cow'den, ie Oxted. Bill and Teds bogus journey 
Last edited:
Seacook
Member
I reckon it's just up the road from 'Cow'den, ie Oxted. Bill and Teds bogus journey
Excellent! Oxted it is.
Zamracene749
Member
Bodacious indeed dude
Old Irish rock beside a man that 'sang the blues' in the late '80s
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
The answer was Carrickfergus.
As in Carrick, craig or crag for rock. And fergus sings the blues, by deacon blue. I'm off. Open floor
Old Irish rock beside a man that 'sang the blues' in the late '80s
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
The answer was Carrickfergus.
As in Carrick, craig or crag for rock. And fergus sings the blues, by deacon blue. I'm off. Open floor
Last edited:
DaleCooper
Established Member
Then it must have been Criccieth.
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Newton-le-Willows?
Now there's a good clue for future use ! In fact -- the answer was a station in the Isle of Man; then I remembered, Man is a British Crown Dependency which is not part of the UK. What's the feeling re the game, about stations on the IOM's lines -- acceptable, or not?
Thinking along right lines; but not that one -- station concerned, is very considerably further south.
Last edited:
I fear not -- you're one county too far west.
DaleCooper
Established Member
I don't know why but:
Maiden Newton?
Maiden Newton?
Correct. In explanation: Sir I.N. was a brilliant scientist; he also held idiosyncratic philosophical / religious views. We're told that on his deathbed he considered his dying a virgin, cause for rejoicing. Hence -- Maiden Newton.
Your floor.
Fair enough.
[Just out of interest perhaps - Cyre is thought to derive from the Antioch-based 4c. child martyr Quriagnos; and I had at the back of my muddled mind the gruesome legend of how his mother, Julietta, did not weep at her son's death but rejoiced that he had earned the crown of martyrdom. Hey ho!]
Last edited:
DaleCooper
Established Member
Next clue:
The station in whose pub the barmen twist lemon in the cocktails.
The station in whose pub the barmen twist lemon in the cocktails.