Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

These commissionaires may be found in Sussex and in France, we hear.

Dormans

 

[D6130]

Dormans

Correct. You next.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct. You next.

Thank you.

The next clue concerns a European visitor who had difficulty understanding the local dialect on TV.

Pole found telly confusing in Lancashire.

 

[RDP]

Poulton le Fylde?

Open floor if correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

Poulton le Fylde?

Open floor if correct.

That's right, open floor...

 

[neilmc]

A tree blew down in the West Midlands, the rare result being without electric power and much more southern.

 

[neilmc]

Need a bit of lateral thinking.

What station in the West Midlands refers to trees, and from that what Southern station has one fewer tree?

 

[RDP]

Three Oaks?

 

[neilmc]

Three Oaks is indeed correct (a opposed to Four Oaks!) - the "being without electric power" is a hint that this Southern route is not actually electrified

 

[RDP]

Open floor.

 

[SoloSR334022]

I'm horrible at guessing, so again I'll take it.
The Scottish Potteries.

 

[D6130]

Bathgate?

 

[neilmc]

In the same vein, I'll try Bogston

 

[SoloSR334022]

Too Central.
It's not Bogston nor Bathgate.
Porcelain and Clay has graced this Village before...

 

[D6130]

Prestonpans?

 

[SoloSR334022]

Not Prestonpans.
Cameras enjoy the Architecture.

 

[DaleCooper]

Not Prestonpans.
Cameras enjoy the Architecture.

Lenzie

 

[SoloSR334022]

Lenzie

Not Lenzie either.

 

[SoloSR334022]

It's got steam running almost every day.

 

[neilmc]

Glenfinnan?

 

[SoloSR334022]

Glenfinnan?

Yes! Up to you now.

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm horrible at guessing, so again I'll take it.
The Scottish Potteries.

How do you get Glenfinnan from that clue?

 

[neilmc]

I didn't, just the one about steam almost every day and architecture

 

[neilmc]

OK ... could be a Chopper at this station - until there's a diesel substitute at the front!

 

[DaleCooper]

OK ... could be a Chopper at this station - until there's a diesel substitute at the front!

Datchet

 

[neilmc]

Dale is correct - hatchet becomes Datchet with D for Diesel.

 

[SoloSR334022]

How do you get Glenfinnan from that clue?

Potter
read in between the lines.

 

[DaleCooper]

Dale is correct - hatchet becomes Datchet with D for Diesel.

Thank you.

Next clue:

There's the front half of a giraffe on this station.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

It's in Scotland.

 

[D6130]

Giffnock?