Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Correct. Your go.

Thank you.

Next clue:

In his report Dr Beeching was not willing to name this station.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Next clue:

In his report Dr Beeching was not willing to name this station.

Hint:

It closed but was reopened decades later.

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank you.

Next clue:

In his report Dr Beeching was not willing to name this station.

Willington (for Repton School) ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Willington (for Repton School) ?

Willington is the correct answer, your turn...

 

[Loppylugs]

Willington is the correct answer, your turn...

Thank-you.

Oh no! Searching for this station my sat-nav has sent me down a dead-end road.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Rannoch? Said to be the longest cul-de-sac in the UK at 34 miles.

 

[Loppylugs]

Rannoch? Said to be the longest cul-de-sac in the UK at 34 miles.

Not Rannoch, well off target I'm afraid, but thanks for the info, I did not know that.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank-you.

Oh no! Searching for this station my sat-nav has sent me down a dead-end road.

Pudding Mill Lane?

 

[Loppylugs]

Pudding Mill Lane?

No, but you have one of the words correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

No, but you have one of the words correct.

Headstone Lane?

 

[Loppylugs]

Headstone Lane?

That's the one, Over to you.

 

[DaleCooper]

That's the one, Over to you.

Thank you.

Next clue:

It's such a small station that even a fly can't change there.

 

[Calthrop]

Tal-y-Cafn?

 

[DaleCooper]

Tal-y-Cafn?

Correct (It's such a small station that even a fly can't change there.), your turn...

 

[Calthrop]

Correct (It's such a small station that even a fly can't change there.), your turn...

My thanks.

Approval from judge at cereal-produce show, we hear.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Goodmayes?

 

[Calthrop]

"Good maize" -- @InkyScrolls: quite right ! Yours to set the next one.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Thank you!

The first and the second Queen Elizabeth - a pigpen in disarray - and with but a 'why' for an 'aye', it would seem!

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you!

The first and the second Queen Elizabeth - a pigpen in disarray - and with but a 'why' for an 'aye', it would seem!

Random guess from, probably, Southern ignoramus; but -- Besses O'Th'Barn (Manchester Metrolink)?

 

[InkyScrolls]

What an excellent name! But not the correct answer, I'm afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you!

The first and the second Queen Elizabeth - a pigpen in disarray - and with but a 'why' for an 'aye', it would seem!

Aberystwyth?

The first and the second = ab
Queen Elizabeth = er
pigpen (sty) in disarray = yst
with but a 'y' for an 'i' = wyth

 

[InkyScrolls]

Correct! All yours.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct! All yours.

Thank you, that was a stinker.

Next clue:

Another place to find a pigpen in disarray.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Braystones? Crystal Palace?

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank you, that was a stinker.

Next clue:

Another place to find a pigpen in disarray.

Epping

 

[DaleCooper]

Braystones? Crystal Palace?

No,no

Epping

That's correct, I wonder where I got that idea. Your turn...

 

[Loppylugs]

That's correct, I wonder where I got that idea. Your turn...

Thank-you. Epping will forever carry that stigma of being a pigpen!

Football team, north of the border, to be found playing in much smaller surroundings than usual.

 

[neilmc]

Gretna Green?

 

[Loppylugs]

Gretna Green?

Not Gretna Green I'm afraid. The station is not in Scotland. You need to come much further south.

 

[Loppylugs]

Think of the abbreviation for a very small distance and the football team plays around within that.