Cryptic clues = station name

[D6130]

I'll go with "Severn Tunnel Junction" (number being Seve(r)n)....

Well done! Over to you now.

 

[RobertsN]

Thanks.

No matter if you do this here, you're still above the rest.

 

[ls2270]

Topsham?

 

[RobertsN]

Topsham?

Sorry, not the one.

 

[Calthrop]

Upper Tyndrum ? ... no matter if you make an annoying racket beating a tin drum ...

 

[RobertsN]

Upper Tyndrum ? ... no matter if you make an annoying racket beating a tin drum ...

I wouldn't call making an annoying racket being "above the rest"
Sorry @Calthrop , it's not that one.

 

[D6130]

High Wycombe?

 

[RobertsN]

High Wycombe?

It is related to height but does not include the word (or partial) "high" not anything like "tall", etc.

 

[Calthrop]

It is related to height but does not include the word (or partial) "high" not anything like "tall", etc.

"Daft department" -- since anything sensible, is eluding me: how about Altrincham? It's pronounced "Altringham"; you can "ring 'em" on the phone as much as you like, but you'll still be at a higher ALT-itude than the rest...

 

[RobertsN]

OK, time for another hint...

Climb **this** and then do **this** to appear lower than you are... (not necessarily in order)...

 

[perryman]

Crouch Hill?

 

[RobertsN]

Way to go @perryman, right answer.
Apologies for the delay in responding, work has been rather hectic to say the least.

It is now well-deservedly your floor....

 

[perryman]

Thank you but the more clues the better, etc...

Where a straight (and also a mixed-up) fruit can be found adjacent to two little north American locations.

 

[perryman]

Clue 1: Where a straight (and also a mixed-up) fruit can be found adjacent to two little north American locations.
Clue 2: Closer to home you could also find a condiment in this place, sort of.

 

[Calthrop]

Oh, dear -- just to have something to suggest, I did "eeny, meeny..." between five possible candidates: Saltcoates ??

 

[perryman]

1 down, 4 to go/try, @Calthrop - it's not Saltcoates.

 

[Calthrop]

I have no idea of any "whys" re this one: so, going alphabetically -- Saltaire?

 

[perryman]

I have no idea of any "whys" re this one: so, going alphabetically -- Saltaire?

Not that particular condiment.

 

[Calthrop]

@perryman: sorry -- misunderstood your post # 11,026. I'd seem, for an answer, to be reduced to that sweet little Scottish coastal place called Eyehaven Tacklew -- invented by a one-time stalwart of this game !

 

[perryman]

Clue 1: Where a straight (and also a mixed-up) fruit can be found adjacent to two little north American locations.
Clue 2: Closer to home you could also find a condiment in this place, sort of.
Clue 3: Confused deliverers of fuel who, individually, sound like the answer to clue 2.

 

[D6130]

Camelon ?

 

[perryman]

Camelon ?

Indeed it is, well done.

Clue 1: Canada and California (CA) were the 'little North American locations, with the fruit obviously being 'melon' (or 'lemon, to mix it up).
Clue 2: The condiment of choice is 'Coleman(s)', anagram of which is Camelon.
Clue 3: 'Coalmen', anagram of which etc etc...

@D6130, over to you.

 

[D6130]

Thanks. Here's a rather obscure one for which I shall gradually give clues if required:

The row from which a Tyke might watch the flank of a 'spamcan' being painted in fifty shades of undercoat.

 

[Calthrop]

As ever -- this is not going to be right, but just to submit something -- Grays.

 

[D6130]

As ever -- this is not going to be right, but just to submit something -- Grays.

Afraid not......the word 'Tyke' is your first locator clue.

 

[Calthrop]

Nobody else biting at the moment -- no great need seen, to fear "spoilers": so Tyke presumably = Yorkshire; and I'm helped not in the slightest .

 

[D6130]

Sorry, it's a bit of a begger, as they say here in Yorkshire! It's a double-whammy.....a cryptic anagram!

It's a former junction between a double track main line and a double track branch line.....and had a busy steam locomotive depot until the mid-'sixties.

 

[neilmc]

Sowerby Bridge? - anagram of row, BB side and grey?

 

[John Griffiths]

Barnsley? It's in Yorkshire, a row is a Barney in rhyming slang, L Is fifty in Roman numerals, and S could at a stretch be seen as the flank, or side, of the term spamcan, whatever (other than a container of processed meat) that might be.

 

[Calthrop]

"Far-fetched and far-fetcheder" -- I suspect that the setter is cunningly putting us off the scent, by implying that "Tyke" denotes Yorkshire. "Tyke" sometimes colloquially and affectionately refers to a child. I submit Kidsgrove. Kid = child - tyke. "s" -- as per @John Griffiths above. "ro" is nearly "row", in the "line-up", not the "quarrel", sense (it rhymes). The "g" and the "ve" before and after, contribute to fifty shades of grey, total indicating "undercoat": "g" being initial letter of "grey"; and "ve" alluding to Victory in Europe Day, 1945 -- forty-five is nearly fifty . Easy !