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Cryptic clues = station name
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DaleCooper
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Aylesbury Vale Parkway?
DaleCooper
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This clue was inspired by a painful Xmas card envelope incident:
Oh no! I licked Xmas letter mistakenly.
Oh no! I licked Xmas letter mistakenly.
DaleCooper
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Hint:
Served by VTWC, TPE and Northern.
Served by VTWC, TPE and Northern.
plymothian
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Oxenholme Lake District
DaleCooper
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Correct, your turn...
plymothian
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Who the BBC introduced in 2007?
Harbornite
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Cam & Dursley
plymothian
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No... but could you explain your thinking?
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Clue. This 'person' is not real.
plymothian
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Clue 2: This 'person' appears annually.
Andy Pacer
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New Pudsey?
plymothian
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Yes. In 2007, the BBC revamped Pudsey Bear for Children In Need.
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Open Floor
DaleCooper
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Kennishead?
I have a far less than encyclopedic knowledge of the UK's passenger stations, and admit to never having heard of this one before, and needing to look it up. Answer is not Kennishead; but the place concerned, is in our "Celtic fringe".
Hmm -- I'm rather starting to scrape the barrel, as regards hints.
"The station which is the answer", is the junction for a short branch line. Close to "answer station", the main-line route which it's on, bridges a large-ish river which has considerable significance in the lore of that part of the world. In times gone by, our station was about five miles, and ten miles, away -- in different directions -- from two different, delightful narrow-gauge lines, one electric and the other steam: these abandoned, regrettably, nearly seventy years ago.
"The station which is the answer", is the junction for a short branch line. Close to "answer station", the main-line route which it's on, bridges a large-ish river which has considerable significance in the lore of that part of the world. In times gone by, our station was about five miles, and ten miles, away -- in different directions -- from two different, delightful narrow-gauge lines, one electric and the other steam: these abandoned, regrettably, nearly seventy years ago.
You've got the right area; but the place which is the answer, is quite near Bushmills etc. (the "old" Giants Causeway Tramway, one of the n/g lines referred to in my hint); but it's a station on the -- still in daily commercial service -- broad-gauge main line.
DaleCooper
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Coleraine?
DaleCooper and neilmc -- you're right. (DaleCooper gets the next turn, for his 7-minutes-earlier response.) Idea was indeed, "[Old King] Cole Reign" -- "pronunciational stretch" because I gather that in Ulster, the first syllable of the town's name is usually pronounced to rhyme with "doll", not "coal".
DaleCooper
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Another seasonal clue as it's almost time to take down the decorations...
...and for the Xmas trees to be recycled.
...and for the Xmas trees to be recycled.