Cryptic clues = station name

[DanTrain]

Cobham & Stoke D’Abernon?

 

[Calthrop]

Not C & S d'A -- the "answer station" has literally four syllables -- but you have one of its (English) words right.

 

[DanTrain]

Stoke Mandeville?

Now it makes sense, a Stoke-man (fireman) in a town!

 

[Calthrop]

Stoke Mandeville?

Not it makes sense, a Stoke-man (fireman) in a town!

Stoke Mandeville is correct. I'd justify myself by observing that making sense by normal standards, is not what the cryptic-clues scene is about; my drift was, "Stoke man" = fireman, as you write above; "de ville" = of or from [a] town (as opposed to a country bumpkin).

Your floor !

 

[DanTrain]

Sorry, I meant 'Now it makes sense', stupid phone keyboards !

A watery greeting of hams and mash

 

[Calthrop]

Sorry, I meant 'Now it makes sense', stupid phone keyboards !

A watery greeting of hams and mash

Ah, those typos -- such as "Deaf Sid" for "Dear Sir"

Am racking brains over your above clue...

 

[Calthrop]

Sorry, I meant 'Now it makes sense', stupid phone keyboards !

A watery greeting of hams and mash

I'd suggest Hailsham -- except that it lost its rail services in 1968.

 

[DanTrain]

I'd suggest Hailsham -- except that it lost its rail services in 1968.

Hey, you've got the right anagram (and it doesn't make up a word on its own), try applying it to an open station

 

[neilmc]

Heysham? "Hey" is a greeting and a port is kind of watery.

 

[DanTrain]

Heysham? "Hey" is a greeting and a port is kind of watery.

That’s it, Heysham Port, for exactly the reasons above, as well as the anagram. Your go

 

[neilmc]

Make a fake pew
Near where the abbey grew
(The station's fairly new!)

 

[neilmc]

Two-word solution, the first being a possible alternative name for a pew and the second to do with fakery.

 

[GusB]

Kirkstall Forge

open floor if correct

 

[neilmc]

Correct Gus! Open floor it is.

 

[johnnychips]

Ray Mears could start a fire at this station.

 

[Calthrop]

I'd say Stixwould (he would start it with sticks), on the Lincoln -- Woodhall Junction -- Firsby route; if only that line hadn't closed in 1970 !

 

[neilmc]

Yarm?

 

[johnnychips]

I'd say Stixwould (he would start it with sticks), on the Lincoln -- Woodhall Junction -- Firsby route; if only that line hadn't closed in 1970 !

Right idea - what would he start a fire with?

 

[GusB]

Flint?

 

[johnnychips]

Certainly is...your floor!

 

[GusB]

Defunct communications system - with artificial intelligence?

 

[GusB]

Clue: this station has the same name as a river

 

[DanTrain]

Halifax? (Not sure about the river though)

 

[GusB]

Not Halifax, I'm afraid.

 

[backontrack]

Halifax? (Not sure about the river though)

That'd be the River Calder.

Wye?

 

[GusB]

Another clue: the CRS code for the station is the same as the initials of said system. I'll give the answer later on, as I don't want to hold up the thread.

 

[backontrack]

Helmsdale?

 

[DanTrain]

Duirinish?

 

[Bedpan]

CRS is Carstairs, and Carstairs includes artificial intellegence, but I don't think that there is a River Carstairs, nor can I see what the defunct communications system is.

 

[GusB]

Nope. Neither of those.

The defunct communications system was the National Radio Network, or NRN. Add Artificial Intelligence (AI) and you get Nairn