Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Fake News? Mucky edit around Iowa spells the end of the line for the BBC!

 

[neilmc]

Big clue : Not a station on the national rail network!

 

[neilmc]

Bigger clue: Where would you find the BBC? And what goes clank-clank-clank-squeal right outside their window??

 

[ilikehs1lolol]

Random, but MediaCityUK? (Metrolink)

 

[neilmc]

MediaCity UK is correct! (Anagram of "mucky edit" around IA (Iowa) and of course a terminal station on the Metrolink for most of the day.

 

[ilikehs1lolol]

I can't focus of thinking of a somewhat not-too-ridiculous clue, so I declare an open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

In bending vale, report of card-game addict's strenuous "cold turkey" effort

 

[johnnychips]

Deleted -just beat me to it!

 

[johnnychips]

Battlesbridge?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ! ("bending vale" = Crouch Valley Line -- name sometimes applied to the Southminster branch.)

Your floor.

 

[johnnychips]

The French twice go before the preservation body.

 

[Karl]

Leyland

*Edit* Oops! It's Clelend

 

[johnnychips]

Very close but no cigar.

 

[Calthrop]

Lelant

 

[johnnychips]

That’s it:
Le/la = ‘the’ in French twice
NT = National Trust, a preservation body.

All yours!

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you !

By the castle, reassembled, fakir cures GCR

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Carrickfergus?

 

[Calthrop]

Right -- that was quick -- congrats ! Your floor.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Right -- that was quick -- congrats ! Your floor.

Thank you very much.

Have a go at this one:

A face veil produced in the south of England.

 

[ilikehs1lolol]

Monks Risborough?

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Monks Risborough?

Afraid not, sorry.

 

[neilmc]

Maida Vale?

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Maida Vale?

Not Maida Vale.

Here's a clue:

This station is managed by Northern.

Additionally, think about what 'face veil' could be. It's worn over the face, so it's a...?

 

[neilmc]

Marske? ("Mask" with a posh accent??)

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Marske? ("Mask" with a posh accent??)

Well done! Indeed it is! (Or rather a Southern accent, hence the 'produced in the south of England'!) Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

Next one:

Jewish priest fake! Well, his meat is not kosher. (Apologies to all who are getting "steamed up" over Not Yet More Religion)

 

[DanTrain]

Levisham (NYMR)?

 

[neilmc]

Levisham (Levi-sham or Levis-ham) it is. Extra clues provided for not being on the national network, but well done Dan, your turn!

 

[DanTrain]

Thanks

An unsavoury, run-down town has lost a third of the internet but still manages to maintain its highway.

 

[ilikehs1lolol]

Hamworthy?