John Griffiths
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As soon as you said that I though of the village of Ringmer: ring, mmm... err. But that hasn' t got a blasted station, either!
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Cryptic clues = station name
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John Griffiths
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And then a stroke of inspiration... Havering! But that's not a station name either!
<retires, sulking>
<retires, sulking>
RobertsN
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So close....
RobertsN
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Don't sulk, you're very close.
2nd hint: It's in England (not outside our "internal" borders). It's not a NR station.
2nd hint: It's in England (not outside our "internal" borders). It's not a NR station.
RobertsN
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You could even suggest "Have-ant" but I doubt your GF would be impressed...
RobertsN
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As gaunt Serb hitman, Ma; but I can't see it. (This is a comment, by the way -- not an attempt at suggesting a station name...)
The answer station is an anagram, and is not on the National Rail system.
John Griffiths
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Totteridge and Whetstone?
John Griffiths
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Thank you.
Tom Brown's chum would have done this, I hear, if he'd been with Drake at Plymouth Hoe.
Tom Brown's chum would have done this, I hear, if he'd been with Drake at Plymouth Hoe.
johnnychips
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Maybole?
John Griffiths
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Not right, but very much on the right recreational lines.
RobertsN
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Sorry to be a pain, but there's an "a" in "hated" which is no in the correct answer....
Just pointing out.John Griffiths
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It's in the 'and' of T & W.
@John Griffiths re your current question: not just Bowling, I suppose? -- though I fail to see what that might have to do with Tom Brown & co. ...
John Griffiths
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More specific, if that's not giving too much away... the station is not served by National Rail services, but the line is used by National Rail services.
RobertsN
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Dohhh!!! Stupid me. Thanks and apologies
d9009alycidon
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Bowling
John Griffiths
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Not Bowling, I'm afraid, but you are very warm. Not paying attention to the Tom Brown side of the question could be a cardinal error.
John Griffiths
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Not Manningtree, sorry.
Not cardinal in the ecclesiastical sense, a point I would make.
The station is not National Rail.
Not cardinal in the ecclesiastical sense, a point I would make.
The station is not National Rail.
I'd forgotten the "not National Rail" factor. However, things "cardinal" now have thoughts going in another direction...
edit a couple of minutes later: aha ! How about East Boldon (Tyne & Wear Metro) -- Tom's best pal at Rugby, Harry "Scud" East ("cardinal" compass point) would have, like Drake, bowled on.
edit a couple of minutes later: aha ! How about East Boldon (Tyne & Wear Metro) -- Tom's best pal at Rugby, Harry "Scud" East ("cardinal" compass point) would have, like Drake, bowled on.
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John Griffiths
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Sorry for noticing this so late... East Boldon is absolutely correct. Well done Calthrop.
Dr. Arnold wishes to see you in his study, young sir... just kidding ! Thanks.
Not far from where Mr. Peel did his thing -- we hear, in archaic lingo, of a person equipping a seasonal singer with death-dealing gear.
John Griffiths
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Is it Armathwaite? Supply with deathly gear: to arm. Seasonal singer: seem to recall from old books that Carol singers were called 'waits' in ye olde times. Not sure about the 'th'. And just struck me, after ages pondering about Tamworth, Staffordshire and Westminster, that Mr Peel might not be the politician but John Peel of view-halloo fame, who plied his trade in the Cumbrian fells.