perryman
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I envisage notepads full of your ingenious workings-out, all in pencil, piled up in the corner of a study.
Your answer should be right but in this case, isn't.
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Cryptic clues = station name
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Your answer should be right but in this case, isn't.
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DaleCooper
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Abercynon?
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Does Waterloo refer to the winning song from the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest? Are we looking for an "Aber" (ABBA) station?
perryman
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You may well be right.
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Hmm, I thought so - but none of the "Abers" seem to fit the rest of your clue. I'll leave it to others to take it up from here.
Loppylugs
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I thought this sounded good. Aber sign-on although pronounced Abercunnon I believe.
perryman
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Sounds like/reads like (to the ignorant, me that is) - you are correct 'Abba sign-on' is was meant to be. Apologies to all from the Principality.
Over to you, @DaleCooper.
DaleCooper
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Thank you and moving on quickly to avoid the language controversy, next clue:
You need to take one with you when you go in, the other one will be delivered.
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Bat & Ball? What a stupid name for a train station!!
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DaleCooper
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That is correct, your turn...
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A clue for all you avid book readers:- "Rites & Patronymics" - a new novel by Ivan Ivanovich Ivanisevic
Risca & Pontymister (anagram)
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Well done indeed! BTW have you read the book?
Gloomy so-and-so's, these Slav novelists -- I avoid them like the plague ...
For my go: Englishman requests of French mother, snail-mail correspondence?
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Penmere?
Splendidly rapid response -- yes; "pen me a letter, French mother (mere)".
Your plancher, my ami.
D6130
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Like many other stations, it was named after a nearby pub.
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50 year old breakfast cereal
D6130
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Rice Lane?
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Sorry, not that one. Clue: What happened in the UK 50 years ago?
Decimal currency was introduced in 1971. In sheer desperation -- but: Pen-y-bont? From '71, the pound was divided into 100 pence / pennies (Pen-y); and there is such a thing as Golden Bounty (-bont) Pure Oat Muesli ... I did say, desperation ...
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Decimalisation- yes. The good old days of farthings, thrupenny bits, tanners, bobs and florins. When we all scrapped the d and went for a pee (clue).
DaleCooper
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Dorridge?
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Is the correct answer. After decimalisation (50 years ago), when p replaced d, dorridge became porridge.
One might protest (my mind's running along those lines; would have stopped my getting the answer, absent large amounts of help): porridge isn't a breakfast cereal ! Or, it's to be reckoned that in Cryptic World, it can be -- "lead 'em astray" being a guiding principle 
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DaleCooper
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It's made from cereal and eaten for breakfast.One might protest (my mind's running along those lines; would have stopped my getting the answer, absent large amounts of help): porridge isn't a breakfast cereal ! Or, it's to be reckoned that in Cryptic World, it can be -- "lead 'em astray" being a guiding principle
Denis Law wasn't happy about the change.
Next clue:
In an interview Lewis Hamilton said this place is like a second home to him.
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Lewisham?
Regardless of dictionary-type puristry: I'm convinced that for most people, as for me, "breakfast cereal" betokens grain-derived flakes, or small biscuit-things of some kind, eaten usually with cold milk (can be warm); not hot cooked-together mush ! (I'm not complaining -- as indicated above, am stricken with admiration for @Caboose Class's craftiness.)
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And let's not even get into the argument as to whether it's Porridge or Porage!!!