Karl
On Moderation
Oops! Sorry for the late reply.
Open floor.
Open floor.
-
Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Cryptic clues = station name
- Thread starter paulravuslante
- Start date
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R
RailUK Forums
backontrack
Established Member
An anagram? A curse on it!
backontrack
Established Member
Carnoustie it is! The floor is yours.
johnnychips
Established Member
Grindleford - anagram of ring folder plus D grade; view of Totley tunnel.
johnnychips
Established Member
Smash a torn tower at this station.
johnnychips
Established Member
GusB
Established Member
Is it Cam & Dursley?
Mac to babble (Cam), capital 500 (D - roman numeral) + surely (indeed)
That is brilliant ! -- felt inclined for a moment, to give you it, in place of my own idea. However, I'm going to be hard-nosed and say "no": the correct answer includes no "&", and "in support of" is significant in it.
backontrack
Established Member
Carmarthen?
backontrack
Established Member
Ah, OK. In that case, the use of 'occidental' makes me wonder whether this station might be Haverfordwest?
Correct ! "Haver" (pronounced "hayver", not "havver-" as in the station name): Scots dialect word meaning to talk nonsense. "In support of" = for. Capital D -- as got by GusB -- Roman numeral for 500. "Occidental" -- as got by you -- west.
Your floor.
Last edited:
backontrack
Established Member
Thanks.
Northwards from an ascending unsharpened pattern, we're flogging a paddock.
Northwards from an ascending unsharpened pattern, we're flogging a paddock.
Last edited:
backontrack
Established Member
Very good (and very easy, apparently); the 'ascending unsharpened pattern' denotes a musical C major scale - or C scale, or Seascale - to the north of which lies the paddock that we're flogging (i.e. we're going to sell a field = Sellafield).
Your floor.
Thank you, sir. A bit of a lucky guess, in fact -- I have been accurately described as "musically dead", and the "ascending unsharpened pattern" bit meant nothing to me: but clues involving the marketing of outdoor open areas, and pointing to Sellafield, can be perceived as not altogether uncommon in this game...
"I demand swallows sorted" -- sorted ! (Instant response to requirement from citizen pestered by busy summer-visiting birds?)
Hint: served by LM
Here's a "fantasy" parallel -- disguising names in USA terms -- which may give a hint as to this station's identity. Its name when opened, was Dogpatch Hollows; its present-day name is Dogpatch (West Virginia) [to distinguish it from Dogpatch (Iowa)]. In-between-times, a new stop was opened -- it's the next station, three-quarters of a mile up the line -- originally named The Hollows Halt, now just The Hollows.