Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

How about Gordon Hill?

 

[ls2270]

How about Gordon Hill?

Gordon Hill it is...well done!

 

[neilmc]

All right here we go ...

It's sandier around here on the coast

 

[ls2270]

Durrington on Sea?

 

[444045]

Hilsea ?

 

[neilmc]

Sorry neither of those are right.

Clue 2

In steam days you could see a Grange on the nearby viaduct - in fact, you still can!

 

[Calthrop]

Goodrington Sands? Open floor if correct.

 

[neilmc]

Still nope. Maybe it should have read "You could see a Grange FROM the nearby viaduct" -

The solution's in Tier 3 but is just across the water from Tier 2

 

[neilmc]

Sorry ignore that last clue it's not accurate as I've placed it in the wrong county - just!

 

[neilmc]

The steam days here lasted right up until August 1968!

 

[Calthrop]

Grange-Over-Sands?

 

[johnnychips]

Arnside. It’s an anagram of Sandier.

 

[neilmc]

Johnnychips has it, and the anagram. I did think that Arnside was in Lancashire and Grange (over Sands) in Cumbria but then I realised this wasn't where the county boundary lies. Trip workings from Carnforth to Grange and Ulverston were still steam-hauled across Arnside Viaduct right into the very final week of BR steam.

Over to Johnny.

 

[johnnychips]

Balls! I need beer at this station!

 

[RobertsN]

Balls! I need beer at this station!

Chippenham?
Chips and Ham go well with a nice beer.

Or would it be Bat & Ball?
What better than a cricket match with a nice cold beer in hand.

I might have said Bowling but it's rather difficult to bowl and not spill your pint

 

[johnnychips]

Served by Northern and the station is right next door to a pub.

 

[johnnychips]

Balls is vocative, not a mild swear word.

 

[Calthrop]

O spherae ! -- ?? Desperation strikes: I suggest Feniton -- nearest station to the village of Beer...

 

[John Griffiths]

Edale?

 

[johnnychips]

Edale is correct. Mr Balls of dancing fame plus ale.
Over to you John.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thank you...

Musk on a shaft here?

 

[Calthrop]

I'd suggest Ellon, Aberdeenshire: "Elon" plus, within the name, another small "l", which could be seen as a -- vertical -- shaft; but the station concerned -- with the Dyce to Fraserburgh line on which it lay -- lost its passenger service in 1965 !

 

[John Griffiths]

Ingenious... on the right lines, and in the right part of these islands.

 

[Calthrop]

Elgin, then? Part, "plus", of Elon -- EL**N -- but beyond that, I'm blessed if I know why...

 

[John Griffiths]

Wrong direction! Thinking of kinds of shaft might help.

 

[neilmc]

Camelon?

 

[John Griffiths]

Well done, Neil, Camelon is correct. Cam from camshaft, Elon from Mr Musk.

All yours.

 

[neilmc]

Here's a fiendish sum for you:

Godfather - 1 + Kate Bush's debut album

 

[neilmc]

Nobody want to take this on? Think of the famous Godfather family for a start then do the subtraction.

 

[duncanp]

Corkickle

Famous godfather family = Corleone, so take of the one and you get Corle
Kate Bush's first album = the Kick