Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Kildale?? (The "dale" part: Dale Robertson [1923 - 2013], American actor and expert horseman who played cowboy roles in many Western films in the 1950s and '60s.)

"Kil" isn't really an abbreviation for anything and if the answer was Kildale the clue would be "Sounds like a station I should avoid".

 

[Calthrop]

"Kil" isn't really an abbreviation for anything and if the answer was Kildale the clue would be "Sounds like a station I should avoid".

Your name as part of the Esk Valley station, didn't even occur to me ! OK, I'll abandon the "Kil" tack. It really doesn't seem likely that I'll get this one.

 

[DaleCooper]

Time for a hint:

All trains serving this station are operated by ATW who also manage the station.

 

[duncanp]

Knighton?

Knight = Horseman
Ton = A Thousand

 

[DaleCooper]

Knighton?

Knight = Horseman
Ton = A Thousand

That's good but Ton = 100 usually.

However you still win because:

a thousand = k
near to = nigh to
horseman = n (chess abbreviation for knight)

Well done, your turn...

 

[duncanp]

How about

This station sounds as though it should be on the London Underground, but is actually in Scotland.

 

[Seacook]

How about

This station sounds as though it should be on the London Underground, but is actually in Scotland.

Could be Charing Cross but that is probably not cryptic enough.

 

[duncanp]

It isn't Charing Cross, or Queens Park.

A clue is if you replace the first letter of the station in Scotland with another letter, you get the station on the underground. The spelling is different, but the pronunciation is the same.

 

[Calthrop]

At the moment, I lack time for "poring over"; and won't be participating for the next ten days-odd (away from home, and effectively without Net access).

 

[DaleCooper]

It isn't Charing Cross, or Queens Park.

A clue is if you replace the first letter of the station in Scotland with another letter, you get the station on the underground. The spelling is different, but the pronunciation is the same.

Three days have passed and still no answers nor further hints, it's time for open floor.

 

[duncanp]

The station I am thinking of is on the Central Line, and the station in Scotland is on a line out of Glasgow Queen Street.

 

[DaleCooper]

Arrochar & Tarbet

 

[duncanp]

It is not Arrochar & Tarbet but you are getting warm.

Carry on towards Oban, and think of a station that sounds like a station on the London Underground.

 

[DaleCooper]

I can only think you mean Oban/Holborn however that doesn't fit with the hint below as replacing the first letter of Oban can only give Aban, Eban, Iban, Uban or Yban so at this point I throw in the towel.

A clue is if you replace the first letter of the station in Scotland with another letter, you get the station on the underground. The spelling is different, but the pronunciation is the same.

 

[duncanp]

No it isn't Oban/Holborn

It is Taynuilt/Hainault

The spelling is different but they sound the same.

Perhaps it was a bit of a rubbish clue, and could have been expressed better.

Anyway, time for someone else to have a go.

 

[Welshman]

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[Seacook]

No it isn't Oban/Holborn

It is Taynuilt/Hainault

The spelling is different but they sound the same.

Perhaps it was a bit of a rubbish clue, and could have been expressed better.

Anyway, time for someone else to have a go.

How can a T sound like an H? The words rhyme but they are surely not homophones.

 

[DaleCooper]

How can a T sound like an H? The words rhyme but they are surely not homophones.

Thanks for that, I was beginning to think it was just me being thick.

 

[Welshman]

Ok. Try this:-

Doctors down the ages have been grateful for this discovery.

Clue - think about fighting infection.

 

[johnnychips]

Unfortunately, I can't find a Welsh station called Pen-y-Cillin

 

[DaleCooper]

Unfortunately, I can't find a Welsh station called Pen-y-Cillin

Is there a village called Bedside Manor?

 

[Welshman]

Unfortunately, I can't find a Welsh station called Pen-y-Cillin

No, but you're very close!

How was the value of penicillin discovered?

(P.S. its near Wales but not in Wales)

 

[Welshman]

Is there a village called Bedside Manor?

Like it, but no, sorry.

 

[DaleCooper]

Mouldsworth?

 

[Welshman]

Mouldsworth it is.
Your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

A seasonal offering this time:

A village that Santa went to twice when disoriented.
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Time for a festive hint:

Rudolph must have done a loop-the-loop with the sleigh.

 

[Karl]

North Pole International?

 

[DaleCooper]

North Pole International?

No, but as Santa lives at the North Pole you could say he is a great northerner

 

[DaleCooper]

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Does this help?

A village that Santa went - to twice when disoriented.

Rudolph must have done a loop-the-loop with the sleigh.

No, but as Santa lives at the North Pole you could say he is a great northerner

and

This station is in one of the counties where "hurricanes hardly ever happen".

 

[DaleCooper]

Final hint before I reveal the answer:

This is a village station in a county where "hurricanes hardly ever happen" (either Hertford, Hereford or Hampshire according to professor Henry Higgins); it is managed and served by Great Northern and the term "Loop" is of some significance. The name is an anagram of "Santa went to to" (to twice, geddit?).