Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Theale?

 

[RJ21]

Sorry for the slow response, I've been hiding in the Berkshire countryside since Friday. Sadly it isn't Theale, a station which I passed through on Friday. As a clue it is a station in a PTE served by no fewer than 4 TOCs.

 

[duncanp]

Stockport? given that Port is an alcoholic drink.

 

[A Challenge]

It has 6 not 4 TOCs, but Manchester Oxford Road does have 4.

 

[DaleCooper]

ABV (Avian bornavirus) affects the brains of birds therefore - Hawkhead?

 

[RJ21]

I just went to do a check on the exact number of TOCs and spotted an issue. I was looking for the three letter code ALE which is on the destination posters at Crewe (Platform 6 if anyone wants to look) for Liverpool South Parkway but NRE & RTT use LPY. For that reason I'll have to admit defeat and say open floor.

 

[backontrack]

Airborne hero walks through the marsh

 

[DaleCooper]

Biggleswade?

 

[backontrack]

Knew that would be easy

The floor is yours.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

'ospital treatment for a secondary artery.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

Originally built by the GWR.

 

[DaleCooper]

Another hint:

This could be the place for an Abelio/GWR day out.

 

[Karl]

Cadoxton?

CAD - Station code
CAD - Coronary Artery Disease?

 

[DaleCooper]

Cadoxton?

CAD - Station code
CAD - Coronary Artery Disease?

It's not Cadoxton

Take note of the spelling in the clue and the hints.

 

[johnnychips]

Plaistow?

Anagram of ospital and W is a 'secondary artery' compared with N and S which are primary ones?

 

[DaleCooper]

Plaistow?

Anagram of ospital and W is a 'secondary artery' compared with N and S which are primary ones?

Clever thinking but Plaistow wasn't a GWR station, was it?

Hint:

Originally built by the GWR.

 

[DaleCooper]

One more 'int:

What do they ('opefully) do to the sick in 'ospital?

 

[Seacook]

One more 'int:

What do they ('opefully) do to the sick in 'ospital?

Ealing Broadway
An anagram of 'an Abelio/GWR day'.

Open floor. I am confident this answer will be confirmed.

 

[DaleCooper]

Ealing Broadway
An anagram of 'an Abelio/GWR day'.

Open floor. I am confident this answer will be confirmed.

Ealing Broadway is correct.

'ospital treatment - 'ealing
secondary - B
artery - roadway

Open floor...

 

[Calthrop]

From historical thriller (disjointed)? -- Capt. Kew: "no gory varlet here"

 

[Seacook]

From historical thriller (disjointed)? -- Capt. Kew: "no gory varlet here"

This is fairly obviously anagram which leads to Wavertree Technology Park. Open floor again.

 

[Calthrop]

This is fairly obviously anagram which leads to Wavertree Technology Park. Open floor again.

Sorry -- just to confirm -- correct indeed. So, as per Seacook, open floor.

 

[Seacook]

I had a thought:

Nick and Nora's dog caught in a school.

 

[DaleCooper]

I had a thought:

Nick and Nora's dog caught in a school.

This is fairly obviously a combination of Asta, c(aught) and Eton which leads to East Acton.

 

[Seacook]

This is fairly obviously a combination of Asta, c(aught) and Eton which leads to East Acton.

Correct, of course. Any sort of knowledge of the Thin Man movies gets you there quite quickly. I really wish I knew what has happened to my box set of all six: it was one of those situations where I knew exactly where it was right up until I looked (Schrödinger's DVD. perhaps.)

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

AC/DC purchase a steamship; that's the wrong way to cross a river.

 

[A Challenge]

City Thameslink

 

[DaleCooper]

City Thameslink

No, it's not that.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

It's approximately 4 miles from an international airport.

 

[DaleCooper]

Another hint, try it with different punctuation:

AC/DC, purchase, a steamship, that's the wrong, way to cross a river.