Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Still very close! I’ll tidy the clue up:

For example, a place down south is this station (without a crossing)…or is it?

Egton

 

[johnnychips]

Egton

It is Dale. I need to make a confession that I thought the station was called Egton Bridge, as that is the village it is situated in. I double-checked and thus had to amend the clue. Apologies to @Calthrop who was on the right lines.

 

[Calthrop]

It is Dale. I need to make a confession that I thought the station was called Egton Bridge, as that is the village it is situated in. I double-checked and thus had to amend the clue. Apologies to @Calthrop who was on the right lines.

"No worries" on my part -- I sometimes feel that I'm not the brightest bunny in this particular warren; I'd considered Egton, and thought "rank outsider -- can't be" -- reckon that I'd have been none the wiser even with the "bridge / crossing" elements pointed up. (My Dewick's historical rail atlas shows that the station was indeed at one time called Egton Bridge.)

 

[DaleCooper]

It is Dale. I need to make a confession that I thought the station was called Egton Bridge, as that is the village it is situated in. I double-checked and thus had to amend the clue. Apologies to @Calthrop who was on the right lines.

Thank you.

Next clue:

The centre for motor vehicle studies.

 

[Calthrop]

Cardenden?

 

[DaleCooper]

Cardenden?

Yes, that's it. Your turn...

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

Orchestral performance here? -- American audience member, excited: flute's hot -- yee-haw !

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks.

Orchestral performance here? -- American audience member, excited: flute's hot -- yee-haw !

Whyteleafe South

 

[Calthrop]

Whyteleafe South it is. @DaleCooper -- your go.

 

[DaleCooper]

Whyteleafe South it is. @DaleCooper -- your go.

Open floor...

 

[Calthrop]

Most of a day gone by -- I don't seem obviously to be hogging things, by going again: which I'll do.

Could be reckoned, telegraphic congratulation from historic automobile pioneer / entrepreneur to his employee Chet, for an excellent idea on the latter's part.

 

[DaleCooper]

Most of a day gone by -- I don't seem obviously to be hogging things, by going again: which I'll do.

Could be reckoned, telegraphic congratulation from historic automobile pioneer / entrepreneur to his employee Chet, for an excellent idea on the latter's part.

Thetford

 

[Calthrop]

Thetford

You're in a correct ballpark clue-wise; and have, broadly, the right part of the country; but I'm afraid it isn't Thetford.

 

[RDP]

Great Chesterford?

 

[Calthrop]

Great Chesterford?

Correct: a quite common male first name in America is Chester -- diminutive, Chet.

The next, is yours to set -- "you can make it any colour you like, as long as it's black".

 

[RDP]

Correct: a quite common male first name in America is Chester -- diminutive, Chet.

The next, is yours to set -- "you can make it any colour you like, as long as it's black".

Open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Can't resist, though probably should (again, nothing from anyone else for best part of 24 hours) -- have discovered one which I was working on, but had forgotten about. After this effort: I promise, for a while -- either thorough change of mode in clues submitted; or else I'll just shut up with same. (Apologies for seeming current obsession with things American.)

In trigger-happy hillbilly family; son addresses matriarch, clarifying: naw, Ma, peeved -- Sten-shy; explaining his bad mood, due to not owning coveted British weapon.

 

[DaleCooper]

Can't resist, though probably should (again, nothing from anyone else for best part of 24 hours) -- have discovered one which I was working on, but had forgotten about. After this effort: I promise, for a while -- either thorough change of mode in clues submitted; or else I'll just shut up with same. (Apologies for seeming current obsession with things American.)

In trigger-happy hillbilly family; son addresses matriarch, clarifying: naw, Ma, peeved -- Sten-shy; explaining his bad mood, due to not owning coveted British weapon.

Pevensey & Westham

 

[Calthrop]

Pevensey & Westham

Correct -- your go.

As promised: no more of this kind from me, for a good while !

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct -- your go.

As promised: no more of this kind from me, for a good while !

Thank you.

Next clue:

A place where you can get a drink in a dry neighbourhood.

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank you.

Next clue:

A place where you can get a drink in a dry neighbourhood.

Drumry

 

[DaleCooper]

Drumry

That's the one, your turn...

 

[Loppylugs]

That's the one, your turn...

Thank-you.

Just the place to find a French writer harbouring a military force in retreat.

 

[Loppylugs]

Help time: (1)

The French writer is not human, it is the brand name of a writing implement and the station is not in England.

 

[Loppylugs]

Will reveal all tonight if no takers but the station is in Northern Ireland and the French writer is a Bic.

 

[Calthrop]

Botanic (in Belfast, a little way west of Belfast Central station). "Bic" around "otan" ("NATO" backwards). Open floor, please -- you've had to give it on the proverbial plate !

 

[Loppylugs]

Botanic (in Belfast, a little way west of Belfast Central station). "Bic" around "otan" ("NATO" backwards). Open floor, please -- you've had to give it on the proverbial plate !

The perfect explanation. Open floor it is.

 

[devon_belle]

Where hides are transformed into thoughts, find the name that's tied in knots.

 

[DaleCooper]

Where hides are transformed into thoughts, find the name that's tied in knots.

Hitchin

 

[devon_belle]

Hitchin

Afraid not