Cryptic clues = station name

[Wilts Wanderer]

Right then, here's another;

An also-ran, but only just?

 

[DaleCooper]

Fairfield?

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Nope.

 

[Calthrop]

Product of very tortuous reasoning: St. Paul's??

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Nope. I'll give you a hint; it's a two-platform station in the north of England, and an apology; the answer is a very dubious pun!

 

[DaleCooper]

Skipton?

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Nope but you're in the right county.

Further hint; station is served by both Northern and East Coast.

 

[backontrack]

Right then, here's another;

An also-ran, but only just?

I reckon this is Horsforth.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Correct answer, your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

backontrack has gone AWOL so here's a clue from me:

This station is to the north of Peartree and Mountain Ash.

 

[backontrack]

Was just about to set mine

Brinnington?

 

[DaleCooper]

Was just about to set mine

Brinnington?

Sorry I sole your thunder but a day and a half had gone by so, to misquote an old epigram, I crept into cryptic, encrypted and crept out again.

Unfortunately Brinnington is not the answer.

 

[Calthrop]

This station is to the north of Peartree and Mountain Ash.

I suppose, not Partick? -- name sounds a good deal like "paitrick", the Scots word for a partridge -- partridges and pear trees, you know...

 

[DaleCooper]

I suppose, not Partick? -- name sounds a good deal like "paitrick", the Scots word for a partridge -- partridges and pear trees, you know...

It's not Partick.

 

[duncanp]

Could it be Tain, as in MounTAIN Ash?

 

[DaleCooper]

Could it be Tain, as in MounTAIN Ash?

No it couldn't.

 

[Calthrop]

This station is to the north of Peartree and Mountain Ash.

Birchwood? That station is, literally, further north than those at Peartree, and Mountain Ash; and birch trees tend to obtain in more northerly regions, than do the other two kinds mentioned.

 

[DaleCooper]

Birchwood? That station is, literally, further north than those at Peartree, and Mountain Ash; and birch trees tend to obtain in more northerly regions, than do the other two kinds mentioned.

Good thinking but not correct.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Fearn? (Compared to Fernhill on the Aberdare line.)

 

[DaleCooper]

Fearn? (Compared to Fernhill on the Aberdare line.)

No it's not Fearn

Hint:

It's in North West England and also to the north of Cherry Tree, Three Oaks and Four Oaks.

 

[backontrack]

Sorry I sole your thunder but a day and a half had gone by so, to misquote an old epigram, I crept into cryptic, encrypted and crept out again.

I wouldn't worry

Brierfield?

 

[DaleCooper]

I wouldn't worry

Brierfield?

Don't worry I wasn't worried.

Brierfield isn't the answer, try thinking of the characteristics of trees rather than names.
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It has an FY postcode.

 

[Calthrop]

Moss Side??? (Sometimes moss grows on one, rather than another, side of a tree's trunk.)

 

[DaleCooper]

Moss Side??? (Sometimes moss grows on one, rather than another, side of a tree's trunk.)

Yes, it's a bit of a generalisation but moss is said to grow on the north side of trees.

Your turn...

 

[Calthrop]

Yes, it's a bit of a generalisation but moss is said to grow on the north side of trees.

Your turn...

Hardly feel I deserve it; but I've thought up a couple which I quite like. One of which:

Nicholas's spanner, reached up-to all the way?
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Hint: it's on a heritage line.

 

[DaleCooper]

Is there a Parsons Bridge?

 

[Calthrop]

Is there a Parsons Bridge?

To my knowledge, not now, or formerly; however, you're quite warm. Think -- extremely far toward the opposite pole, from (most) clergy.

 

[fyldetrainfan]

Devil's Bridge

(Vale of Rheidol Railway)

 

[Calthrop]

Devil's Bridge

(Vale of Rheidol Railway)

Correct ! "Nicholas" here = Old Nick. Your floor.

 

[fyldetrainfan]

Ok try this.

Weighty tomes, we almost hear!