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Cryptic clues = station name

duncanp

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The only reason I got that so quickly is that I posted a similar clue with the same answer a few months ago. (something like "bird of prey in the East End")

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So boring super rich people need to sort themselves out in order to find out where they are going.
 
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ls2270

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The only reason I got that so quickly is that I posted a similar clue with the same answer a few months ago. (something like "bird of prey in the East End")

Next clue:-

So boring super rich people need to sort themselves out in order to find out where they are going.
Ah I must have missed that one!
 

duncanp

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It is not Erith,but you are right in that the answer to clue lies in an anagram.
 

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I've been working on an anagram of "boring super rich people need"; but am coming to suspect that that is not a productive line to follow...
 

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You're almost there - the anagram consists of four consecutive words in the clue, and the answer station has direct services from London and Birmingham
 

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Princes Risborough

(Let me get a clue together.....)

Can't think of a clue, so open floor.
 
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duncanp

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Yes, Princes Risborough is correct, being an anagram of So boring super rich.
 

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We need an emoji denoting one banging one's head against a brick wall or, given the amount of time I spent trying to work this out, one with someone with a gun pointing at their own head...
 

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We might hear that genuine Portulaca oleracea obtains at this station (once on a rather unusual part of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway).
 

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Troopers Lane in Northern Ireland.

Portulaca oleracea is the Latin name for Purslane, a type of plant.

So genuine portulaca oleracea could be pronounced True Purslane
 

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Glasgow Central? Some convoluted thinking on my part led to this rather obvious station.

Convoluted and likely brilliant; but wrong, I'm afraid.


Troopers Lane in Northern Ireland.

Portulaca oleracea is the Latin name for Purslane, a type of plant.

So genuine portulaca oleracea could be pronounced True Purslane

That's it, precisely (on the former Northern Counties Committee system, of "our island" 's LMS and prior to that, Midland, Railways).

Your floor.
 

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Next clue:-

Ghost wrecking it blamed for confusing signage at this station
 

duncanp

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No, it isn't Hampton , but the answer to the clue does lie in an anagram.
 

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