Cryptic clues = station name

[GusB]

Run, Dale, Run. Your box of chocolates.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

Use a small guitar for derivative composition.

 

[Calthrop]

One of mine "too daft to explain fully": Catford Bridge??? (The Owl, serenading the Pussycat, accompanied self on a small guitar...)

 

[DaleCooper]

One of mine "too daft to explain fully": Catford Bridge??? (The Owl, serenading the Pussycat, accompanied self on a small guitar...)

It's not Catford Bridge, the answer is more Jimi Hendrix than Owls or Pussycat (Dolls).

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

The guitar isn't a Les Paul.

 

[DaleCooper]

Another hint:

This name of this station also appears in the names of four other stations.

 

[Harbouring]

Random guess but newhaven harbour.

 

[GusB]

Stratford? Open floor if correct

 

[DaleCooper]

Stratford? Open floor if correct

Strat(ocaster) for D(erivative) is correct.

Open floor...

 

[duncanp]

As it is open floor I will try something topical:-

The president of the United States is a swanky top orator, and also a pariah

 

[DaleCooper]

Southampton Airport Parkway (plus a spare "R")?

 

[duncanp]

Yes it is Southampton Airport Parkway

Sorry about the spare 'R'

Your turn.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

The new red trains stop at this station.

 

[DaleCooper]

I have to cut this one short; the answer is Stansted Airport (Anagram - red trains stop at).

Open floor...

 

[neilmc]

OK I'll try again ... not an anagram, will require some lateral thinking.

No they aren't, no it isn't and it's not central either!

 

[neilmc]

Clue: the last three words should narrow the options considerably

 

[neilmc]

Clue 2 then:

The answer is three words comprising 15 letters. It's in the North of England. The next station along YIELDS a clue ...

 

[neilmc]

Clue 3: The answer is 3/5/7 letters. It's on a line from Manchester Piccadilly.

 

[Calthrop]

New Mills Central?

 

[Harbouring]

I think it not Central so E.g. NM Newtown

 

[neilmc]

Yes New Mills Newtown it is - it's NOT central, remember? I doubt whether the mills are new and it's not a new town either!

 

[Harbouring]

Open floor as I can never think of anything, @Calthrop maybe as you put me in the right area?

 

[Calthrop]

Yes New Mills Newtown it is - it's NOT central, remember? I doubt whether the mills are new and it's not a new town either!

I'm out of touch -- was working, incorrectly, from a system map. I'd imagined "not central" referring to the station being far out of the town, despite the name... dons dunce's cap...

 

[Calthrop]

Oops ! Harbouring, I missed your Saturday message -- one minute before my same -- and have made no closer inspection before today.

I'll give this one a go -- Imaginable moment in an American war movie: succinct verbal order to Chester, member of US armed forces, to go up a mound and there do his stuff

 

[Calthrop]

I'll give this one a go -- Imaginable moment in an American war movie: succinct verbal order to Chester, member of US armed forces, to go up a mound and there do his stuff

Hint: the late American country musician Mr. Chester B. Atkins is generally referred to re the diminutive of his first name, which is an element in the above clue.

 

[Harbouring]

Chetnole

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ("Chet, go up the knoll"). Your turn to be an inglourious basterd and save Private Ryan...

 

[johnnychips]

Harbouring are you going to set another clue or shall we declare an Open Floor from, say, 1200 on Saturday?

 

[Harbouring]

Sorry I was trying to think and forgot. Open floor

 

[johnnychips]

Yew??