Cryptic clues = station name

[A Challenge]

Par?

Can I have another guess after guessing once, as I think I have it to two?

 

[Karl]

Par?

Can I have another guess after guessing once, as I think I have it to two?

Yes feel free to try again.

 

[A Challenge]

Worth a try, but not likely, why would the question be the answer? My only over answer is:
Leuchars

 

[Karl]

Leuchars is out of bounds sorry.

 

[A Challenge]

I won't go again, but I think it is on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen line, and there are two more it could be, though I don't think it is.

 

[Karl]

I can let you know that any golfing theme is not in the answer but feel free to try again.

PAR

 

[Calthrop]

Is it by any chance station-code stuff (about which I know nothing)?

 

[Karl]

No it's not station codes.

I must admit it's probably a little cheeky but it made me smile when I discovered it last night while under the influence of a few John Barleycorns!

Let me know if anyone needs another hint.

 

[DaleCooper]

Parbold?

 

[Karl]

Parbold?

Correct!

PAR becomes PAR when emboldened, so 'PAR bold' is my excuse.

Apologies for being a bit vague

Your floor Dale.

 

[DaleCooper]

Apologies for being a bit vague.

Vague is fine as long as the logic is impeccable and yours was. What threw me at first is that I always put my clues in bold to distinguish them from the rest of the post.

It was this that helped me:

I must admit it's probably a little cheeky but it made me smile when I discovered it last night while under the influence of a few John Barleycorns

Next clue:

This station features in the revised version of "LMS on Time - O.S.Nock".

 

[Calthrop]

This station features in the revised version of "LMS on Time - O.S.Nock".

Silkstone Common?

 

[DaleCooper]

Silkstone Common?

Silkstone Common is the correct solution, your turn...

 

[Calthrop]

Silkstone Common is the correct solution, your turn...

Thanks. By the way -- my recent queries about acceptability here, of stations on Isle of Man; I infer that game participants' feelings on this, are "thumbs down": I'll shut up henceforth, about that particular piece of real estate !

Next clue:

In a situation of strict "separation by tribes", would only folk from Down Under be allowed to use this station?

 

[DaleCooper]

Strines?

 

[Calthrop]

Strines?

Too flamin' right, sport. Your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Too flamin' right, sport. Your floor.

I'd been planning to use that one myself but you beat me to it.

Here's an easy one:

The gold medal goes to Henry on idiophone.

 

[Calthrop]

The gold medal goes to Henry on idiophone.

Winnersh Triangle? Open floor if I'm right.

 

[DaleCooper]

Winnersh Triangle? Open floor if I'm right.

Correct therefore open floor.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I'll take it

Jarheads get showroom condition safe place

 

[Karl]

Newhaven Marine?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Newhaven Marine?

Yes... Once again, everybody's favourite station is picked

The platform is yours

 

[Karl]

Cheers HMS, here goes...

I hear a Bessemer converter hosted a pub brawl?

 

[Calthrop]

I hear a Bessemer converter hosted a pub brawl?

Barrow-in-Furness?

 

[Karl]

Nice one Calthrop, 'Bar row in furnace' your floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheers.

Where the king quaffs the vintage and quests for cycloid/ctenoid-clad preserved fish?

 

[DaleCooper]

Inverkip?

 

[Calthrop]

Inverkip?

Right part of UK, and mentally sort-of on the right track; but, not Inverkip.
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Hint: the clue alludes to an old Scottish ballad, and to a couple of words in it gigglingly parodied by generations of English schoolkids.
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It would seem that I've become an old fart: have the impression that all schoolkids of my generation, "did" the ballad referred to above -- that of Sir Patrick Spens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Patrick_Spens

 

[DaleCooper]

My farts are probably much older than yours but I've never heard of it. Presumably the answer is one of the Dunfermline stations.

 

[Calthrop]

Correct: Dunfermline Town station

As with the first verse:

The King sits in Dunfermline town
Drinking the blude-red wine:
O whaur shall I get a skeely skipper
To sail this new ship of mine?

"Sassenach" schoolkids long had fun taking the mickey, corrupting the "skeely [=skilful] skipper", into "scaly kipper" -- hence the cycloid/ctenoid-clad fish stuff.
The things one imagines that everybody knows, as well as oneself -- but it turns out they don't !

DaleCooper, your floor.