Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

Shirley not!

It Shirley is your turn...

That's the only quote I know from that film (which I've never seen) -- @DaleCooper, all your hints, and I still had no idea ! Sometimes I feel that I should give this lark up...

 

[Henffordd]

Sounds like a struggle

 

[Calthrop]

Wressle?

 

[Henffordd]

Must have been too easy. Your go.

 

[Calthrop]

My thanks.

Beige information letter some 75% through (or female of species) -- unconventional terminal.

 

[DaleCooper]

My thanks.

Beige information letter some 75% through (or female of species) -- unconventional terminal.

Pontefract Tanshelf

 

[Calthrop]

Pontefract Tanshelf

Um, afraid not -- the place could in fact, hardly be more different...

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: it's on an essentially "heritage" line.

 

[RDP]

Dungeness (RH&DR)?

 

[Calthrop]

Dungeness (RH&DR)?

That's it. "Dun" = beige; "gen" = information; "ess" = "s", nineteenth letter of the alphabet; or, female version (lioness, giantess, etc.).

Next is yours to set.

 

[RDP]

It is indeed an unconventional terminal being on a loop. Dungeness was also my old stamping ground.

Open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

We might hear canine snobs vying with each other, concerning value of their respective residences...

 

[D6130]

Kenilworth?

 

[Calthrop]

Indeed -- what's their kennel worth?

It's your prestigious pet-pad to allude to...

 

[D6130]

Indeed -- what's their kennel worth?

It's your prestigious pet-pad to allude to...

Thanks. Next up:

Sounds like somebody half-English and half-French has found the entrance to an orchard full of golden fruit.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks. Next up:

Sounds like somebody half-English and half-French has found the entrance to an orchard full of golden fruit.

Appledore

 

[D6130]

Appledore

Bien súr, Monsieur! À vous la prochaine question.

 

[DaleCooper]

Bien súr, Monsieur! À vous la prochaine question.

Merci, malheureusement je ne parle pas français.

Next clue:

The wanderings of an aunt led her here.

 

[DaleCooper]

Merci, malheureusement je ne parle pas français.

Next clue:

The wanderings of an aunt led her here.

Hint:

It's in Wales.

 

[RDP]

Tonfanau?

Open floor if correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

Tonfanau?

Open floor if correct.

Correct, open floor...

 

[Calthrop]

Duolingual and abbreviated farewell bidden to his sylph-like sovereign by Columbus, confused -- has. la v., lean Ferdinand [first bit, short for "hasta la vista"] prior to his sailing off (northward rather than westward?)

 

[John Griffiths]

Columbus may have been very confused, as the sylph-like monarch was surely Ferdy's spouse, the delightful Isabella, who gave her name to a pit not far from the soon-to-be-operational Blyth Newsham

Easier than straining what passes for my brain with Hard Anagrams, anyway.

 

[Calthrop]

Columbus may have been very confused, as the sylph-like monarch was surely Ferdy's spouse, the delightful Isabella, who gave her name to a pit not far from the soon-to-be-operational Blyth Newsham

Conversation rather than clue-solving, I ween -- answer is veritably, not Blyth thingy (a completely new one on me -- but I'm often not too good on present-day UK rail system matters).

Brought to mind, the verse by Ogden Nash about old Chris and the havoc which he set in train -- in Nash's characteristic rhyming-but-metre-less style -- a few lines, approximately remembered: the explorer is trying to get funds for his venture --

So he went to see Ferdinand
Who said, however, that going west to get to the Indies was a bird in the bush, and he'd rather have a birdinand...

So CC decides to try instead, to charm the queen in search of support --

So he perfumed his hair with bay rum and citronella,
And he went off to see Isabella...

I like this kind of stuff, which Nash turned out in profusion -- splendidly corny nonsense.

 

[Calthrop]

Reckoning that people may be somewhat fed-up with barmy anagrams from me: herewith alternative clue --

We might hear -- Princess Royal, owning bosky hollow: also offers same as a guaranteed "pitch" for travelling entourages of fun rides, sideshows, and such things.

 

[John Griffiths]

What could it be but Ansdell & Fairhaven?

 

[Calthrop]

What could it be but Ansdell & Fairhaven?

That's it, all right -- over to you. (Was trying to anagrammatise the foregoing, but gave up.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Thank you.

This might have been a good place for football, were it not that the team were keen on cards.

 

[Calthrop]

Rather ridiculous one, just to submit something -- Bamber Bridge? Might have been good for the scorers of goals -- "Bamb !" as ball goes in -- thus, "Bamb-ers"; only as stated, they prefer the card game of Bridge.

 

[John Griffiths]

You are on the right track. But remember that the team were too fond of cards.