Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

I've set a clue in years past, on this very game / thread, to which the answer was "Fort Matilda" (though nothing to do with Stephen and medieval history) -- but had forgotten since, the very existence of the place ... I sometimes fear: senile decay overtaking me at a rate of knots...

 

[duncanp]

Next clue:-

Old axle breaks down, leading to delays.

 

[RobertsN]

Blakedown?

 

[duncanp]

No, not Blakedown, but it is possible to get from Blakedown to the answer station with one simple change.

 

[perryman]

Longbridge?

 

[duncanp]

No, not Longbridge, but you have got the first two letters and the last letter of the answer station correct.

 

[perryman]

Erm, at the risk of looking a right fool (I can't think of a station in the region that fits the letters criteria you've generously confirmed), London Marylebone? However, I'm not there by working out your original clue.

 

[duncanp]

No, not London Marylebone.

You can get there direct from Birmingham New Street, and soon you will be able to get there direct from Wolverhampton railway station as well.

 

[johnnychips]

Loxdale on the WM tram network.

 

[duncanp]

Yes, Loxdale is correct, being an anagram of Old axle.

Your turn.

 

[johnnychips]

Point out turn on this station.

 

[RobertsN]

Hook?

 

[johnnychips]

No sorry.

 

[johnnychips]

It is on the coast, near enough.

 

[Calthrop]

No suggestions for quite some while: to try and keep things ticking over, herewith a silly offering (since I can't think of a sensible one). How about Shotton ? You could call it sorta-kinda coastal -- it's on the River Dee, just before it opens out into its estuary. Could be thought to sound a bit like "show turn" -- in the local dialect, perhaps (Flintshire English?)...

 

[johnnychips]

No sorry. It’s in England.

 

[perryman]

West Runton?

 

[LexyBoy]

Pokesdown?

 

[johnnychips]

It is West Runton

Point=West
Out turn=anagram of turn=runt
On=on

your runt...I mean turn @perryman

 

[perryman]

You were closer the first time...

Hyacinth Bucket goes to Harrow.

 

[Calthrop]

A considerable time gone by with no response; trying to start the ball rolling -- falling back on daft ideas, in the absence of any with any likelihood of being right...

Hyacinth Bucket was played by Patricia Routledge. A small-time farming outfit in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, is a croft; the bod who runs it is a crofter, and the activity is called crofting. It's quite possible that in the course of cultivating their fields / patches, a crofter might harrow same (with a harrow).

Scenario in which Ms. Routledge has had enough of the acting life, and decides to retire to the remote reaches of Scotland and become there, a smallholder of the above-described kind; and announces her intentions. So: "Pat R: 'I croft'." Our station, therefore: Patricroft .

 

[perryman]

A considerable time gone by with no response; trying to start the ball rolling -- falling back on daft ideas, in the absence of any with any likelihood of being right...

Hyacinth Bucket was played by Patricia Routledge. A small-time farming outfit in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, is a croft; the bod who runs it is a crofter, and the activity is called crofting. It's quite possible that in the course of cultivating their fields / patches, a crofter might harrow same (with a harrow).

Scenario in which Ms. Routledge has had enough of the acting life, and decides to retire to the remote reaches of Scotland and become there, a smallholder of the above-described kind; and announces her intentions. So: "Pat R: 'I croft'." Our station, therefore: Patricroft .

Your answer is not the correct one although, as always, magnificently deduced (or not). However, you are on the right lines with the 'Harrow' part of your workings out and you're over complicating the Hyacinth Bucket part of the answer. It's more about the nature of the character than PR.

Clue 1: Hyacinth Bucket goes to Harrow.
Clue 2: The patronising answer to where Paddington is from, in a mixed up way.

 

[Calthrop]

Your answer is not the correct one although, as always, magnificently deduced (or not). However, you are on the right lines with the 'Harrow' part of your workings out and you're over complicating the Hyacinth Bucket part of the answer. It's more about the nature of the character than PR.

Clue 1: Hyacinth Bucket goes to Harrow.
Clue 2: The patronising answer to where Paddington is from, in a mixed up way.

Further head-scratching and desperation -- and I'm completely devoid of ideas as regards your "Paddington" one. "About the nature of the character"-- furious thrashing-around: Snodland? "Snod" bears a resemblance to "snob"; and she's going off to work on the land ...

 

[perryman]

Further head-scratching and desperation -- and I'm completely devoid of ideas as regards your "Paddington" one. "About the nature of the character"-- furious thrashing-around: Snodland? "Snod" bears a resemblance to "snob"; and she's going off to work on the land ...

It's not Snodland, although your working out for the first part of the clue is again along the right lines.

In clues 1 & 3, the first part of the clue requires a very slight adjustment of the word, i.e. you would need to remove the last letter of that part the answer but I really don't think it's enough to make a great deal of difference.

Clue 1: Hyacinth Bucket goes to Harrow.
Clue 2: The patronising answer to where Paddington is from, in a mixed up way.
Clue 3: An upright prostitute?

 

[John Griffiths]

Is it Prudhoe?

It's an anagram of Ho! D Peru and the reference (albeit abbreviated) to Darkest Peru might now be seen as impolite, imperialistic or patronising.

Paddington did of course come from Peru.

 

[perryman]

Is it Prudhoe?

It's an anagram of Ho! D Peru and the reference (albeit abbreviated) to Darkest Peru might now be seen as impolite, imperialistic or patronising.

Paddington did of course come from Peru.

It is indeed, Prudhoe, well done.

The Paddington patronising answer reference was an anagram of Doh, Peru. Hyacinth Bucket & upright refer to prud(e), Harrow & prostitute = hoe.

Over to you.

 

[Calthrop]

All in parenthesis -- I don't watch telly: had heard of Hyacinth Bucket and Keeping Up Appearances, but never actually seen the show. Had had the impression that Hyacinth was a social climber and crashing snob; but had no idea that she was particularly prudish. No wonder I got nowhere as regards answering ...

 

[perryman]

All in parenthesis -- I don't watch telly: had heard of Hyacinth Bucket and Keeping Up Appearances, but never actually seen the show. Had had the impression that Hyacinth was a social climber and crashing snob; but had no idea that she was particularly prudish. No wonder I got nowhere as regards answering ...

As well as being the social climber and snob, I think she had issues with morality and overt sexual references - I think her sister and Onslow (Eddie Yates) made her uncomfortable with certain references of a sexual nature. Although it was a long while ago...

 

[John Griffiths]

Thanks, perryman.

Maggie liked foursomes, in her early days, anyway.

 

[perryman]

Robertsbridge? Her maiden name and the game requiring 4 players (I think)?