Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

Teds + Brio + (Bridge of) Allan = Llanbister Road

Although it really needs another "R".

You're mentally pretty much on the right track (and exercising great ingenuity); but none of your references are right; and, the clue doesn't involve an anagram.

If this helps any: "my third" (as the riddlers say) is a three-letter word: which -- all on the far side of Inverness -- makes part of the name of a railway station; and also part of the name of a geographical feature about fifty miles north-east of that station.

 

[duncanp]

Kyle of Lochalsh?

 

[DaleCooper]

If this helps any: "my third" (as the riddlers say) is a three-letter word: which -- all on the far side of Inverness -- makes part of the name of a railway station; and also part of the name of a geographical feature about fifty miles north-east of that station.

I'm working on the basis that this refers to Muir of Ord and The Ord of Caithness. Am I right so far?

 

[Calthrop]

Kyle of Lochalsh?

Afraid not.

I'm working on the basis that this refers to Muir of Ord and The Ord of Caithness. Am I right so far?

You are. Answer is a one-word name, whose last three letters are "ord".

 

[duncanp]

Guildford

Guild = an association of people
F = Forte (in music)
Ord

 

[Calthrop]

Guildford

Guild = an association of people
F = Forte (in music)
Ord

You're right with items 2 and 3; but not with item 1 (though it is indeed five letters). It is specifically a slang-ish term from the World War I era, for languid young men-about-town in those days.

 

[DaleCooper]

Forte in music indicates loud, the term for vigorous is usually brio or possibly vivo which is why I've dismissed all those stations ending "...ford".

 

[Calthrop]

Forte in music indicates loud, the term for vigorous is usually brio or possibly vivo which is why I've dismissed all those stations ending "...ford".

Sorry -- as a music scholar, I'd make a good hod-carrier...

 

[duncanp]

Wallyford?

given that Wally is a slang term for someone who is a bit useless.

 

[DaleCooper]

Knutsford (Playboys in favour of large cups)

 

[Calthrop]

Wallyford?

given that Wally is a slang term for someone who is a bit useless.

Nope -- see below

Knutsford (Playboys in favour of large cups)

Correct. A better clue than mine -- must be my overly-pure mind, to blame...

Your jolly old floor, old bean. Pip pip !

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

Some people might confuse their station with this station.

 

[Calthrop]

Some people might confuse their station with this station.

Minehead?

 

[DaleCooper]

Minehead?

It's not Minehead, your head or anyone's head.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

It's in London and served by Southeastern.

 

[Calthrop]

It's in London and served by Southeastern --

Stratford International?

 

[DaleCooper]

Stratford International?

Not that one.

Look at it this way:

Their station
***** station

 

[Calthrop]

I'm just not seeing it, I'm afraid. For certain, will kick self when the answer is revealed .

 

[philjo]

Loughborough Junction ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Loughborough Junction ?

Not that either.

It's not about two stations sharing the same name, it's a different kind of confusion.

 

[duncanp]

Hither Green? which is not quite an anagram of Greenhithe

 

[DaleCooper]

Hither Green?

So close, in a way...

Look at it this way:

Their station
***** station

Count the asterisks.

 

[duncanp]

Erith which is an anagram of Their

 

[DaleCooper]

Erith which is an anagram of Their

That's it, your turn...

 

[duncanp]

OK, let's try This station is in Leeds, but is not in Yorkshire

 

[cadoxton]

OK, let's try This station is in Leeds, but is not in Yorkshire

Beeston?

 

[duncanp]

No it is not Beeston.

 

[DaleCooper]

Someone's got to say the obvious - Lee?

 

[duncanp]

Yes it is Lee.

Your turn.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

Horse dances around the ring.