Cryptic clues = station name

[cadoxton]

Johnston?

 

[plymothian]

No, sorry.

Must be clue time: Gordon is not human.

 

[Calthrop]

24 hours gone by with nothing happening. To try and keep the ball rolling, I'll do one of my silly ones.

Among the Rev. Awdry's locomotives, Gordon's distinguishing trait is his being big. I'll suggest Biggleswade -- perhaps some connection of which I'm unaware, between "[g]gleswade"and "the thousand-whatsit weight thing" ???

 

[plymothian]

No, sorry.

Biggest clue now: Shumway

 

[cadoxton]

Alfreton?

Shumway was a open source software alternative to flash player, which led me to spend too much time looking at Flash Gordon related answers.

 

[plymothian]

Alfreton is correct.

But - George Shumway was known as Alien Life Form (ALF), about -RE 1,000kg -TON.

 

[cadoxton]

A naive railwayman is embedded at this station

 

[plymothian]

A na[ive r]ailwayman is embedded at this station

Iver

 

[cadoxton]

Indeed. Yours..

 

[plymothian]

A barrack spelt incorrectly

 

[johnnychips]

Askam?

 

[plymothian]

Nope.

 

[Karl]

Oban?

 

[plymothian]

Sorry, incorrect.

Clue: this station lost most of its through journeys recently.

 

[plymothian]

Clue 2: TfL Zone 4

 

[neilmc]

Clue 2: TfL Zone 4

Castle Bar Park (anagram)?

 

[plymothian]

Correct!

 

[neilmc]

Correct!

OK my go again:

Very bad place to find yodeller, to be frank

 

[Calthrop]

OK my go again:

Very bad place to find yodeller, to be frank

Rogerstone?

 

[neilmc]

Rogerstone?

Nope. Much further north.

 

[DaleCooper]

Very bad place to find yodeller, to be frank

I remember him.

 

[neilmc]

I remember him.

Come on folks, final part is singer whose singular hits were in 1962/63. Junction station, ten letters in all.

 

[Karl]

Aha! I suspect it's Hellifield.

Dale's hint should've made me remember too!

 

[neilmc]

Aha! I suspect it's Hellifield.

Dale's hint should've made me remember too!

Correct, well done. HELL plus Frank IFIELD was the singer, for those less long in the tooth.

 

[Karl]

Where to see a whistler from Haymarket perhaps?

 

[London Trains]

Edinburgh Waverley?

 

[Karl]

Close. You're almost on the right track.

 

[London Trains]

Motherwell?

 

[Karl]

Not Motherwell. You're getting colder now

 

[London Trains]

Dunbar?