Cryptic clues = station name

[backontrack]

Yeah, that's surely Slateford

 

[ANWP Tom]

I'm guessing Slateford.

Correct sir

 

[neilmc]

Loco never seen before on the Wirral transferred to Southport?

 

[Calthrop]

Meols Cop?

 

[neilmc]

Meols Cop it is, of course!

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks -- my go:

Modest accommodation for equines beneath JKR's gainsaid tree-tract, we hear; though much further south than the latter venue's generally understood location.

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: the equines are not horses; but members of another (usually well-loved) branch of the genus. And that which they are referred to as "beneath": JKR = J.K. Rowling -- think Harry Potter and Hogwarts.

 

[neilmc]

Ascott-under-Wychwood?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ! Ten points for (whichever your Hogwarts house is) -- and, your floor.

 

[neilmc]

Geographical Clue 1:

Cantaloupe from Orange County, for example

Easier Geographical clue 2:

One problem with driving is Oman is that you might suddenly find a ----- -- the road!

 

[Calthrop]

Camelon? (Clue 2 -- self-explanatory. Clue 1 -- melon from Ca. [abbreviation for California]).

 

[neilmc]

Spot on Calthrop, I think I made that one too easy as I'd never heard of the place Camelon.

 

[Calthrop]

Those Scots hide some extremely strange stuff in their Lowlands ...

My go, yes?

Imaginable secret instructions from the then king to the person commemorated in the station's name, for something quite like person's historical mission, in double-talk - Jim ! A la covert, spy thou in Ossie, 'K?

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: station is managed by Northern

 

[neilmc]

I'm looking for a station which is a 27-letter anagram from "Jim" to "K" including J and K and V but not "and", but I haven't spotted it. am I on the right lines??

 

[Calthrop]

You are indeed. Keep looking; and -- see my hint -- its being managed by Northern, should narrow things down some.

 

[Calthrop]

Further hint: corny old joke featuring the person commemorated in the station's name --

Quizmaster: [Person commemorated] made three voyages of exploration, and was killed during one of them. Which one?

Sweet dotty old lady: Please, any chance you could ask something else? I was never any good at history.

 

[neilmc]

Ah - I think it's James Cook University Hospital - it was just called James Cook on the map I used!

 

[Calthrop]

That's the one. I wasn't trying deliberately to make life more difficult: my 2013/14 all-lines timetable has it as James Cook University Hospital, and Google confirmed it as such.
Your -- well-earned -- floor.

 

[neilmc]

Miss Davenport wears a short skirt - but only on Saturdays!

 

[neilmc]

Clue: Think tennis rather than Davenport as a location and it will become very easy ... won't it??

 

[Calthrop]

Kirton Lindsey? (I'm not au fait with this "tennis" thing by which many people set such store -- had to run the above additional clue past my sporty brother.)

 

[neilmc]

Right of course - (s)kirt on Lindsey (Davenport), renowned ladies player of around 20 years ago. Said station is favoured by a Saturdays-only service.

 

[Calthrop]

I feel that a fair reward would be, to ask my brother to think up the next one ; but though he's a genius about sport-type stuff, he doesn't do cryptics. So, from me:

Idle Welsh idyll: (Anglophone) swain recommends taking it easy, to his lady-love

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: the answer could conceivably be two words, or three. The clue works, either way.

 

[Calthrop]

I thought this would be an easy one -- further hints, hard to think up ! Lad's (English-language) words to his lass might be thought maybe more American, than British, English; but only to a small extent.

 

[Calthrop]

This one clearly isn't going anywhere. The answer is Sugar Loaf aka Sugar Loaf Halt. Either version would work: the lover is saying to his lass, "Sugar" (it might have been "Honey") -- "Loaf" = take it easy, don't exert yourself; plus (should it be so) "Halt" from your being busy and active.

Open floor.

 

[DanTrain]

Seeing as it's still open floor, try this one:

At the bottom of a large hole, a key turns to unveil a large amount of rye, removed without an echo.

 

[318266]

Rye?.

 

[DanTrain]

Rye?.

No, although two letters of that word are significant.