Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Dale has found it! Your turn

 

[DaleCooper]

Dale has found it! Your turn

Thank you.

Next clue:

If you eat here then fall ill prawn cocktail is the reason.

 

[Loppylugs]

Llanfairpwll (gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) boyo ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Llanfairpwll (gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) boyo ?

Correct, your turn...

 

[Loppylugs]

Correct, your turn...

Thank-you.

The south of the country needs water at the moment, but it sounds as if there's been plenty at this station.

 

[D6130]

Rainhill?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank-you.

The south of the country needs water at the moment, but it sounds as if there's been plenty at this station.

If only Wetwang still had a station.

 

[D6130]

If not Rainhill, how about nearby Rainford?

 

[Loppylugs]

If only Wetwang still had a station.

Oh no, when did that close?

If not Rainhill, how about nearby Rainford?

Neither. South of the country is a hint.

 

[D6130]

Virginia Water?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thorpe-le-Soken?

 

[Loppylugs]

Virginia Water?

Nope.

Thorpe-le-Soken?

Nope.

 

[DaleCooper]

Lake?

 

[Loppylugs]

Lake?

Good idea but too far south! Served by South Western Railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Oh no, when did that close?

Viz. Wetwang: 1950, with end of passenger service on the Malton -- Driffield branch on which it lay. Line stayed open for freight for most of a decade longer.

Neither. South of the country is a hint.

The plenty-of-water question station: Millbrook? (enough of a brook to drive a mill ...)

 

[Loppylugs]

Viz. Wetwang: 1950, with end of passenger service on the Malton -- Driffield branch on which it lay. Line stayed open for freight for most of a decade longer.




The plenty-of-water question station: Millbrook? (enough of a brook to drive a mill ...)

Thanks for the info @Calthrop on Wetwang, a truly lovely name!!

Sadly, Millbrook is not the answer.

 

[DaleCooper]

Wetwang, a truly lovely name!!

...but can be very embarrassing at the wrong time.

Double the fun - Bath Spa?

 

[Loppylugs]

...but can be very embarrassing at the wrong time.

Double the fun - Bath Spa?

Quite so !

The south of the country needs water at the moment, but it sounds as if there's been plenty at this station.

Not Bath Spa. The station is served by South Western Railway only.

 

[duncanp]

Poole

 

[DaleCooper]

Fulwell?

 

[Loppylugs]

Poole

Nice try.

Fulwell?

That is the correct answer. All yours.

 

[DaleCooper]

That is the correct answer. All yours.

Thank you.

Next clue:

Was Ronaldo fouled here?

 

[duncanp]

Thank you.

Next clue:

Was Ronaldo fouled here?

Old Roan, being an anagram of Ronaldo

 

[DaleCooper]

Old Roan, being an anagram of Ronaldo

Correct, your turn...

 

[duncanp]

Next clue

British Rail placed Ely in a mess. which needs to be sorted out

 

[Purple Train]

Lye?

 

[duncanp]

Lye?

No not Lye.

Think of an abbrevation for British Rail, and also some of the other words in the clue besides Ely.

 

[RobertsN]

I'll give it a try with Bryn

 

[duncanp]

I'll give it a try with Bryn

No.

But the first syllable of the answer station sounds like Bryn.

 

[DaleCooper]

No.

But the first syllable of the answer station sounds like Bryn.

Now I'm confused, baffled, perplexed and befuddled.