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Cryptic clues = station name
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johnnychips
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Acton Main Line?
Karl
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.... or could it be Acton Bridge, as in bridge of the Titanic?
Esker-pades
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Is the correct answer.
@FelixtheCat -- granted, I'm thick -- but please can you explain? I presume r- and n-switching has some relevance; or has it
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Esker-pades
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Leonardo de Caprio is a famous actor, who often plays the main part - Main Actor.@FelixtheCat -- granted, I'm thick -- but please can you explain? I presume r- and n-switching has some relevance; or has it
Not gay, IE: straight. That's a line.
We get to Main Actor Line.
Swap them around and replace the 'r' for an 'n', and you get Acton Main Line.
johnnychips
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Pointlessly miss work at a station in Kent.
johnnychips
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Clue time. Might be easier if I rewrite it:
Pointlessly deliberately miss work at a station in Kent.
Pointlessly deliberately miss work at a station in Kent.
I'm hitting a blank wall here. Once more (and again looking north-west) in order to submit something, anything -- I find self driven to outright silliness. The wantonly and voluntarily not-showing-up-for-work person, by acting this way, "burns" up their time and is "id[l]e": so the answer is BURNESIDE, on the Windermere branch and located on the River Kent 
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Oh, yes; and I assume that nowadays Burneside has no loop or sidings; so it's "pointless".
.Oh, yes; and I assume that nowadays Burneside has no loop or sidings; so it's "pointless".
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johnnychips
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No sorry, it’s much simpler than that: just an ordinary cryptic crossword clue. It’s only served by Northern Rail.
johnnychips
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Sorry!
The ‘station in Kent’ is literally a station in Kent.
The ‘station in Kent’ is literally a station in Kent.
johnnychips
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It’s in South Yorkshire.
johnnychips
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Absolutely right! All yours.
36 hours gone by: I reckon, time for one of my silly ones, just to make it so that something's happening.
I'm going to say that it's Derriaghy. Something which is German: German for "the", is DER. "Necessary arrangements" indicates anagram-type doings: among things used for travel -- so, could belong to or be operated by a travel company -- a horse-drawn carriage; known in India as a "gharri". Possible alternative spelling GHAIRY; which rearranged and tacked on to DER, makes the "answer station" suggested by me above (on the Northern Ireland Railways' system, between Belfast and Lisburn). Simples !
johnnychips
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Bridge of Allen? Wild guess, unless you know a dog owner called Allen that I don't 
Karl
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Bamber Bridge?
Karl
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... awww I thought it was going to be my home town. After all Bamber Gascoigne hosted a quiz show
I'll keep trying.
I'll keep trying.
plymothian
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Guide Bridge?
Karl
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I like that one. Good luck