Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Indian cattle wagon?

 

[Calthrop]

Girvan?? (reference to the Gir Forest nature reserve in Gujarat State, India -- the only place in the world where the Indian lion is found in the wild?)

 

[neilmc]

Calthrop has got it exactly, there is a kind of cattle called a Gir after the forest.

 

[Calthrop]

Good heavens -- thought my answer was totally nutty and off-the-wall. I knew about the lions, but had never heard of the cattle.

Yorkshire monk in exile at monastery here, might say, bemused, T' Lent rule very agley: observing his fellow-brothers' laxity in respect of prominent forty-day fast.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Rugeley Trent Valley?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct. "Agley" -- should anyone be puzzled thereby -- "gone agley", old form of words meaning gone wrong or screwed-up -- largely a Scots expression; but hopefully there's a cryptic-clue equivalent of poetic licence !

Brother, 'tis thy turn to set an poser to catechise clerics and laics ...

 

[InkyScrolls]

Aye lad, fear not - I'm a Yorkshireman, and am familiar with 'agley'.

In message, silly MPs to NE command others to provide the answer!

 

[RDP]

Lympstone Commando.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Indeed. An easy one but fun to compile! Your turn to flag down a clue.

 

[RDP]

Another easy one

This could have been a pub in Stoke on Trent.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct. "Agley" -- should anyone be puzzled thereby -- "gone agley", old form of words meaning gone wrong or screwed-up -- largely a Scots expression; but hopefully there's a cryptic-clue equivalent of poetic licence !

Aye lad, fear not - I'm a Yorkshireman, and am familiar with 'agley'.

I'm pretty sure you're both making it up.

This could have been a pub in Stoke on Trent.

Potters Bar

 

[RDP]

Got it in one.

Your turn to throw the next clue.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm pretty sure you're both making it up.

Not so, my liege -- Mr. Burns and his celebrated mouse --

"The best-laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft agley."

 

[DaleCooper]

Not so, my liege -- Mr. Burns and his celebrated mouse --

"The best-laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft agley."

I'm not taking English lessons from the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant! I bet his mice have two heads.

Got it in one.

Your turn to throw the next clue.

Thank you.

Next clue:

Is this the station for the newly deployed Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers or not?

 

[RDP]

Drem?

 

[DaleCooper]

Drem?

No, it's not Drem.

 

[johnnychips]

Montrose?

 

[DaleCooper]

Montrose?

You've got the right idea but not the right answer.

 

[DaleCooper]

I think I should give you a bit of help with this one:

It's on a preserved railway.

More hints will follow if necessary.

 

[D6130]

Norden?

 

[DaleCooper]

Norden?

No, it's not Norden.

 

[RDP]

Minehead (WSR)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Minehead (WSR)?

No, it's not Minehead.

Hint: It's by a river.

 

[D6130]

Kingswear?

 

[Loppylugs]

Orton Mere

 

[DaleCooper]

Kingswear?

No, it's not Kingswear.

Orton Mere

Orton Mere on the Nene Valley Railway is correct being an anagram of "REME or not", your turn...

 

[Loppylugs]

Orton Mere on the Nene Valley Railway is correct being an anagram of "REME or not", your turn...

Thank-you.

Rosemary say, is encompassed by one direction or another.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Sherborne?

 

[Loppylugs]

Sherborne?

Sherborne it is. Over to you.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Why thank you.

A holy grandparent is walking on water at this station.