DaleCooper
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Clever but you've got an extra "n" and "t" and it has nothing to do with a car park.
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Cryptic clues = station name
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DaleCooper
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Time for a hint:
A Shirley Bassey song would help.
A Shirley Bassey song would help.
Loppylugs
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A big spender = Spean Bridge ? (loss of car park though)
DaleCooper
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Right song, wrong station; otherwise absolutely brilliant.
backontrack
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"I could show you a good time" in the car park... if only there was a railway station on the Dogger Bank 
Failing that, Carpenders Park.
Failing that, Carpenders Park.
DaleCooper
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Car + spender (anag.) Park is correct."I could show you a good time" in the car park... if only there was a railway station on the Dogger Bank
Failing that, Carpenders Park.
Your turn...
backontrack
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backontrack
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Got it in one! The floor is yours.
DaleCooper
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I have no idea of the answer but I have found this Ropsley Heath Light Railway and Ropsley is an anagram of leprosy.
Thank you for above link -- am very fond of Lincolnshire (my county of birth) but had hitherto been unaware of the existence of Ropsley. The answer is a station on the national rail network: name is an anagram (and also something else) of that of the nasty malady -- which however is not leprosy: it's something more thoroughly tropics-specific.
DaleCooper
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Sway? (Yaws reversed)
Spot-on ! (The "Mr. Castleman" business: a bit over a century-and-a-half ago, a gentleman of that name played a big part in inaugural planning and financing of the rail route between Southampton and Poole; which route was -- per considerations of how and where railway-building rights could be got -- decidedly twisty-and-windy, especially in its original form of running via Ringwood and Wimborne. The line's tortuousness led to its being dubbed "Castleman's Corkscrew". At a later date, the LSWR opened a new, more direct "variant" section between Brockenhurst, and Bournemouth and Poole via Christchurch: Sway being on this newer line.)
The flaw is yaws, as it were.
DaleCooper
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Clever, thank you.
The next clue is in the form of a special christmas message to you all:
Hope
(Yes, just one word, it might be a tricky one but you've got all christmas day to think about it)
DaleCooper
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It's not a synonym.
Oh good, I’m not thick, just clueless lol
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Turkey Street? Turkey's treat will also be my treat later today.
Merry Christmas to All !!!!
Merry Christmas to All !!!!
DaleCooper
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Followed by turkey salad tomorrow, then turkey sandwiches, turkey curry, turkey soup...
Hint:
The clue is a sort of rebus.
Merry Christmas caboose!
DaleCooper
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No, the clue is "Hope". Rebus is a type of puzzle.
Admonishes self -- stupid boy ! Didn't realise we were still on the "Hope" one.
DaleCooper
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DaleCooper
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A recap plus more hints:
Managed by South Western Railway.
The clue is not an anagram, synonym or pun. Ignore the word's meaning, concentrate on the arrangement of the letters.
D6130
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Feniton?
DaleCooper
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Sorry, it's not Feniton.
D6130
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Templecombe?