Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

Carnoustie is correct, your turn...

In a knotty situation, Alan is more Yoda-like

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Hathersage?
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A better guess - Alsager ?

(The Knotty was a nickname for the North Staffs Railway I believe?)

 

[Calthrop]

Hathersage?
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A better guess - Alsager ?

(The Knotty was a nickname for the North Staffs Railway I believe?)

Alsager -- with said "Knotty" connection -- is correct. The Force is henceforth with you !

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

The next clue:

Sounds like whitefish are protected, going round in circles! Then kneel to Mecca
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Hint: this station is located in the suburbs of a major UK city.

 

[duncanp]

Pollokshields East?

Pollock = A White Fish
Shields = Protects
East = Towards Mecca

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Pollokshields East?

Pollock = A White Fish
Shields = Protects
East = Towards Mecca

Excellent The floor is yours.

 

[duncanp]

How about something topical

Louche American president being inaugurated next week hides his UK origins.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Cardonald?

 

[duncanp]

Not Cardonald, although the station is in the suburbs of another major UK city apart from Glasgow.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Got it - Cheam

Assuming I'm correct, open floor.

 

[duncanp]

Yes it is Cheam.

Open floor now.

 

[Calthrop]

"Isle Of The Blest" confusedly aver the Ents

 

[duncanp]

Havenstreet, on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ! Your floor.

 

[duncanp]

OK let's try

CIA memo shows Barack Obama nearly missed the train when visiting the US Air Force base at Mildenhall

 

[Calthrop]

OK let's try

CIA memo shows Barack Obama nearly missed the train when visiting the US Air Force base at Mildenhall

Manea?

 

[duncanp]

Yes it is Manea.

I thought it would last a bit longer, but over to you.

 

[Calthrop]

We hear O'Brian lowly character begging from chum, a fill for his pipe
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Apparently no fans here, of Patrick O'Brian's novels about the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars ! The first two syllables of the station name concerned; make up the slang word widely current 200-odd years ago, used by ordinary working chaps to address pretty well any male of their own approximate status: equivalent for those times, of today's "mate".

 

[DaleCooper]

Cockfosters?

 

[Calthrop]

Cockfosters?

Right initial letter; otherwise, no. (Word concerned is "archaic" -- no-one, I think, uses it today -- and, "first two syllables".)

 

[DaleCooper]

I was thinking of "cully" but the only station I can find that's anything like is Cullercoats.

 

[Calthrop]

I was thinking of "cully" but the only station I can find that's anything like is Cullercoats.

As has come about previously in this game -- the United Kingdom obtains on more than one (large-sized) island...

 

[johnnychips]

Cullybackey, in Northern ireland?

 

[Calthrop]

That's the one. Your floor.

 

[johnnychips]

A scam is bad, initially, and not smooth at this station.

 

[DaleCooper]

Conisbrough?

 

[johnnychips]

Excellent, sorry didn't reply sooner, been out.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

We arrive at the station in time to get Sea Mills to Bristol day returns.

 

[duncanp]

Is it Ayr?

...to Bristol dAY Returns...........

 

[DaleCooper]

It's not Ayr.
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Hint:

Operated and served by ATW.