Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

You seem to have a very strange view of what constitutes 'easy'.

I suppose it's easy when you know the answer.

 

[RDP]

You seem to have a very strange view of what constitutes 'easy'.

It's obvious to me that no one has got remotely near this so I will knock it on the head and declare open floor.

 

[InkyScrolls]

At least give us the answer!

 

[InkyScrolls]

I'll get things moving again:

What the Lord provided for Moses?

 

[DaleCooper]

It's obvious to me that no one has got remotely near this so I will knock it on the head and declare open floor.

What was it?

I'll get things moving again:

What the Lord provided for Moses?

Manors

 

[InkyScrolls]

Manors

I like it but no.

 

[Calthrop]

What the Lord provided for Moses?

A gate? -- Moses Gate station, Greater Manchester??

 

[InkyScrolls]

Good but still no.

 

[DaleCooper]

Godstone

 

[InkyScrolls]

Still no, I'm afraid.

 

[D6130]

Manningtree?

 

[Welshman]

Moses was a shepherd and God appeared to him at the Burning Bush, so:-

Shepherd's Bush

 

[InkyScrolls]

Moses was a shepherd and God appeared to him at the Burning Bush, so:-

Shepherd's Bush

Very good! But still no. It's my favourite so far though.

Manningtree?

I'm afraid not.

 

[DaleCooper]

Seaford

 

[johnnychips]

Stafford? A staff to hit the rock to make the water come out; and ford to cross the Red Sea.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Stafford? A staff to hit the rock to make the water come out; and ford to cross the Red Sea.

Close. . .

Seaford

But @DaleCooper has it. Your turn to bring down plagues of puzzles.

 

[DaleCooper]

But @DaleCooper has it. Your turn to bring down plagues of puzzles.

Thank you.

Next clue:

STFU Tom! The dentist can repair that, it's next to a bridge.

 

[Calthrop]

STFU Tom! The dentist can repair that, it's next to a bridge.

I'm annoyingly drawing a blank here. Feel that there ought to be somewhere called Mustoft -- sounds as though in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, both amply supplied with waterways and bridges: but not only is there no such station nowadays; there never has been one.

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm annoyingly drawing a blank here. Feel that there ought to be somewhere called Mustoft -- sounds as though in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, both amply supplied with waterways and bridges: but not only is there no such station nowadays; there never has been one.

Hint:

It's near an airport and it's not in either Yorkshire or Lincolnshire. The bridge is a road bridge over the railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Hint:

It's near an airport and it's not in either Yorkshire or Lincolnshire. THE BRIDGE IS A ROAD BRIDGE OVER THE RAILWAY.

(My capitalising) Ah, well, that narrows us down to several hundred possibilities ... afraid I'm still floundering. (I'd hypothesised that your "bridge" stuff might be diversionary waffle; allied to the bit about the dentist -- dentistical bridges and crowns, and all that ...)

 

[DaleCooper]

(My capitalising) Ah, well, that narrows us down to several hundred possibilities ... afraid I'm still floundering. (I'd hypothesised that your "bridge" stuff might be diversionary waffle; allied to the bit about the dentist -- dentistical bridges and crowns, and all that ...)

"bridge" was an intentional pun. Your first attempt at an anagram (Mustoft) was not sufficiently ambitious.

 

[Calthrop]

I don't seem very bright today... what I now see as anagram-material, would seem to contain too few vowels and too many consonants -- have been reduced to dreaming up improbably-named Welsh places...

 

[DaleCooper]

I don't seem very bright today... what I now see as anagram-material, would seem to contain too few vowels and too many consonants -- have been reduced to dreaming up improbably-named Welsh places...

It's in England if that helps.

 

[Calthrop]

Fest Scumton I' Th' Nadett -- seems plausible for somewhere way up North in England ...

 

[DaleCooper]

Fest Scumton I' Th' Nadett -- seems plausible for somewhere way up North in England ...

Brave effort but this station is further south.

 

[RDP]

Stansted Mountfitchet. If right open floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Stansted Mountfitchet. If right open floor.

Correct, open floor...

We still haven't been given the solution to "Service cancelled due to a power cut. How the dyslexic vicar described it.".

 

[Calthrop]

Stansted Mountfitchet. If right open floor.

I failed to get Stansted Mountfitchet, owing to its being a Johnny-come-lately name-wise: the station was just Stansted until 1990 and business with that bloody airport. That's my excuse, anyway...

 

[Calthrop]

As it's open floor ... if I might have a shot --

We might hear -- holy fathers, of their humane kindness, suffer amphibian to make progress by foot over them.

 

[D6130]

Finchley Road & Frognal?