Cryptic clues = station name

[John Griffiths]

That's a very clever suggestion, but not right, I'm afraid.

 

[Calthrop]

Walkden?

 

[John Griffiths]

Sorry, no.

 

[John Griffiths]

Clue: it has services to a London terminus.

 

[LUYMun]

Laindon?

 

[John Griffiths]

Afraid not. Wrong side of London.

 

[Calthrop]

In utter desperation -- Ascott-under-Wychwood??? "Wand-er" -- someone who uses a wand: could be a witch -- some suggestion with "under", that the witch would quit the magic business -- and perhaps go to the races at Ascot instead? (I did say "desperation".)

 

[GusB]

Wendover?

 

[John Griffiths]

Well done, Gus: Wendover it is.

 

[GusB]

Thanks - I don't think this will last too long:

Musical Tim might live here!

 

[Calthrop]

Rice Lane?

 

[GusB]

Rice Lane?

Rice Lane is the answer. The stage is yours!

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

Occult raccoons occasion anxiety among local residents (highly religious people hereabouts)

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: it's on a normal, proper railway with "regulation" passenger services; but not on GB's National Network.

 

[neilmc]

I thought of Carrick-On-Shannon as this uses all the letters of "raccoons" but it's in the Irish Republic - does this count?

 

[Calthrop]

I thought of Carrick-On-Shannon as this uses all the letters of "raccoons" but it's in the Irish Republic - does this count?

Right island, wrong polity; I understand the convention as being, that stations in Northern Ireland are allowed in the game, it being part of the UK -- but not in the Republic. (I'd be for permitting stas. in the Republic too -- more clue-fodder !)

 

[Calthrop]

Hinting further -- the station concerned, has very close to it: an excellent museum, of interest to people like us.

 

[johnnychips]

Hollywood, though I can’t fit it to the clue?

 

[Calthrop]

Hollywood, though I can’t fit it to the clue?

You are so close; but it looks like you're going by the museum's postal address (and following the Californian, rather than the local, spelling): whereas the "answer station", where one alights for the museum, is a little way down the line.

 

[johnnychips]

Aargh, it’s Cultra hidden in the words. Hollywood was my spellcheck, of course it’s Holywood.

 

[Calthrop]

Yes, those spooky procyonids -- Cultra's the one ! Your floor.

 

[johnnychips]

At this station, after killing a lot of badgers, the Welsh get a lift on a bike, we hear.

 

[Calthrop]

At this station, after killing a lot of badgers, the Welsh get a lift on a bike, we hear.

Still in Ulster (and with animals) -- Cullybackey?

 

[johnnychips]

Definitely
Welsh ‘the’ = ‘y’
We hear = sounds like
Backie = a lift on a bike
after
killing badgers = cull

 

[Calthrop]

Mine again, I take it --

We hear, tribute to ancient deceased ruler -- which reversed nearly a century ago; and perpetrator then donning titfer (about to set off to his next dig?)

 

[John Griffiths]

OK, a quick early punt - Hatton Cross?

 

[Calthrop]

OK, a quick early punt - Hatton Cross?

Your first word is right; but your station's wrong -- and the word you have right, is not in first place in the right answer (I hope that makes some kind of sense).

 

[neilmc]

Tutbury and Hatton?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct -- excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 -- "burying Tut", reversed.

Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

When rehorsing, might turn around here for a Welsh Cob!