Cryptic clues = station name

[DerekC]

Dereham? Not sure how the French bit comes in, though.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks for the clue -- Buckenham?

 

[johnnychips]

Correct

Buck = Deer
En = French for in
Ham = Meat

All yours!

 

[Calthrop]

Thank'ee --

Mr. Emett exits his comfort zone, and has a shot at designing an express passenger loco?

 

[ilikehs1lolol]

Wild guess, but Mitcham Eastfields?

 

[Calthrop]

No; but M.E. as above, is not hugely far off geographically.

 

[ilikehs1lolol]

Box Hill and Westhumble?

 

[Calthrop]

Your mental processes re this one, elude me; but, carry on in a very roughly similar direction, only westerly-as-well-as-southerly.

Please note: the proper name in the clue is significant: think surnames, and Christian names.

 

[DerekC]

Rowlands Castle, by any chance?

 

[Calthrop]

Spot-on ! Rowland Emett -- creator of many delightfully fanciful back-of-beyond rail-byway comic pictures, and of the "Far Tottering & Oyster Creek" line at the Festival of Britain, coming up with his equivalent of a GWR Castle class...

Your floor, sir.

 

[DerekC]

OK - an easy one (I think) for my first:

Spectre in pain gets confused.

 

[Karl]

King's Cross?

 

[DerekC]

Not Kings Cross. You would need to travel from Waterloo.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Woking?

 

[DerekC]

Keep going south west for quite a long way. Hint: the spectre is of German origin.

 

[d9009alycidon]

Brockenhurst (Brocken Spectre + anagram of hurts)

 

[DerekC]

Brockenhurst (Brocken Spectre + anagram of hurts)

Spot on - your floor.

 

[d9009alycidon]

OK Try Almost speechless in front of the French chips

 

[GusB]

Dumfries?

 

[d9009alycidon]

Correct Dum(b) + (french) fries

Over to you

 

[GusB]

Thanks

Oriental Dwelling

 

[Esker-pades]

Elephant & Castle?

 

[DanTrain]

Limehouse?

 

[GusB]

Neither of those, I'm afraid.

 

[Calthrop]

Easterhouse?

 

[GusB]

It is Easterhouse - your floor @Calthrop

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks tae ye, mon.

Gaff heard logic (tortuous) re its welcoming having been at a junction between two pre-Grouping companies

 

[DanTrain]

Gilfach Fargoed?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct. (One feels so chuffed at making an anagram in English at all, out of a Welsh place-name of any length...) Your floor.

 

[DanTrain]

Correct. (One feels so chuffed at making an anagram in English at all, out of a Welsh place-name of any length...) Your floor.

Thanks!

China clears leaves from the lawn with cold meat.