Cryptic clues = station name

[johnnychips]

Correct. For the benefit of younger readers, Sir Harry Secombe was one of ‘The Goons’, a comedy group from the fifties, and an AEC Regent (RT) was a similarly aged London Bus.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

When in East Anglia change here for Derby.

 

[ls2270]

Next clue:

When in East Anglia change here for Derby.

Derby Road?

 

[DaleCooper]

Derby Road?

Sorry that's not the answer. The station in question isn't in East Anglia.

 

[Calthrop]

Reedham (Surrey)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Reedham (Surrey)?

It's not in Surrey either.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

When in East Anglia change here for Derby.

Time for a hint.

Stirling might venture to succeed here.

 

[d9009alycidon]

Edale?

 

[DaleCooper]

Edale?

It's not in Derbyshire.

 

[Karl]

Moss Side?

 

[DaleCooper]

Moss Side?

No it's a different Stirling, higher up the rankings than Stirling Moss.

 

[johnnychips]

St James (Metro)?

 

[DaleCooper]

St James (Metro)?

No, St James didn't "venture to succeed", "strive to overcome" nor "**** to ***", did he?

 

[John Griffiths]

Hereford - the letters all in order in clue 1, and subsequent reference to Col David Stirling, founder of the SAS, now based in Hereford?

 

[DaleCooper]

Hereford - the letters all in order in clue 1, and subsequent reference to Col David Stirling, founder of the SAS, now based in Hereford?

Hereford is the answer, your turn...

 

[John Griffiths]

Thanks...

Squash Heather - weighs a lot.

 

[Calthrop]

Lidlington?

 

[John Griffiths]

Not Lidlington, I' m afraid.

 

[John Griffiths]

Though Calthrop was pretty warm.

 

[Calthrop]

Trying again -- Cramlington?

 

[John Griffiths]

Well done, Cramlington is correct.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks. My floor, I take it:

Can sound like scenario from late-16th-Century war between England and Spain: for timely arrival of a vehicle-load of fletchers' product, our chaps express loyal gratitude to their monarch.

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: the station includes two place-names. The second can be heard as -- in the historical period indicated -- the rough soldiery thanking their sovereign, with more loyalty than courtliness.

 

[DaleCooper]

Arrochar & Tarbet?

 

[Calthrop]

Spot-on: "Arrow-car, and 'ta, Bet' ".

Your turn to deal damnation to the Dons.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

This station can be identified by the ornate steel crest there.

 

[Calthrop]

Chester-le-Street? Open floor if correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

Chester-le-Street? Open floor if correct.

Blimey, that was quick! Open floor it is...

 

[johnnychips]

Start baking a sort of cake at this station.

 

[Strat-tastic]

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