Cryptic clues = station name

[444045]

Good guesses but not the right answer.

Chris will help you find the fictitious copper at this station.

 

[neilmc]

Lewisham?

 

[Calthrop]

Jordanhill?? (Put this down to my being a fan of Val McDermid's crime novels: in one series of hers, a crime-fighting "odd [but effective] couple" are DCI Carol Jordan, and Tony Hill; and a lesser character in that series is a, for a while, subordinate of Carol's named Chris -- short for Christine.)

 

[444045]

Jordanhill?? (Put this down to my being a fan of Val McDermid's crime novels: in one series of hers, a crime-fighting "odd [but effective] couple" are DCI Carol Jordan, and Tony Hill; and a lesser character in that series is a, for a while, subordinate of Carol's named Chris -- short for Christine.)

The Chris in this case is a male name, if you take part of your answer and change it so it rhymes with another word that will lead to the
tv show the copper is in, that should lead you to the answer.

 

[444045]

Lewisham?

Sorry not correct.

 

[Calthrop]

The Chris in this case is a male name, if you take part of your answer and change it so it rhymes with another word that will lead to the
tv show the copper is in, that should lead you to the answer.

Thanks -- but I'm one of those annoying snobs who "don't do TV". Think I must, regretfully, write this one off.

 

[Loppylugs]

Burnside ? From The Bill.

 

[444045]

Burnside ? From The Bill.

You are correct - Chris Ellison played Frank Burnside in The Bill, the floor is yours......

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank-you. Needed a bit of detective work to solve that!

Zero return after a bad shot at The Belfry.

 

[444045]

Hook ?

 

[Loppylugs]

Hook ?

No, sorry, not Hook.

 

[Calthrop]

Batley?? Inhabitant of belfry = bat (the person shot at it but missed, so it's still happily flying around?) -- ley: old-fashioned farming term for land which has been untilled for some years; therefore zero return on it?

 

[Loppylugs]

Sorry Calthrop, not Batley but I like the theory.

 

[Loppylugs]

Zero return after a bad shot at The Belfry.

Alternative clue. This cut of meat sits on a shortened piece of track.

 

[neilmc]

Shanklin? (I had to look up "bad golf shots" and a picture of a sliced-up cow for inspiration)

 

[Loppylugs]

Well done, you were indeed inspired.
Just to clarify, a shank is a bad golf shot and the zero return is nil reversed. The Belfry being a famous golf course.
A shank is a cut of meat and the shortened track is line minus the "e".
Deservedly your floor neilmc.

 

[neilmc]

It's so rough, when you've taken in too much starchy stuff at the seaside!

 

[John Griffiths]

Chipstead?

 

[neilmc]

No, not Chipstead. Somewhere much larger.

 

[D6130]

Scarborough?

 

[neilmc]

Congratulations D6130. Scarborough it is - s(CARB)o rough.

 

[D6130]

Thanks. How about
Found confused on a beer can ?


OK. No takers yet, so I'll give you a couple of clues:

This station has eight platforms, is electrified and is served by two different TOCs.

 

[D6130]

Next clue: The electrification is third rail.

 

[neilmc]

I'll have a stab with VAUXHALL as I read it has 8 platforms and Vaux used to be brewery in Sunderland

 

[D6130]

I'll have a stab with VAUXHALL as I read it has 8 platforms and Vaux used to be brewery in Sunderland

Very good try - I can see where you're coming from and you are correct on both points - but I'm afraid it's not the correct answer.

To try and hurry things along a bit, I shall say that the correct answer is an anagram of something that you might expect to find on a beer can.....and that four of the eight platforms are terminal bays.

 

[RobertsN]

Has to be Orpington then. Though no idea of the Beer Can connection.

 

[D6130]

Has to be Orpington then. Though no idea of the Beer Can connection.

Yes.....well done! Orpington is an anagram of 'ring on top' - which you would expect to find on most beer and soft drink cans these days.

Over to you...........................

 

[RobertsN]

Thanks. For the next one:

Something not quite the opposite of a long standing religious search

 

[Calthrop]

Lairg? -- nearly but not quite, "Grail" spelt backwards.

 

[RobertsN]

@Calthrop , was hoping it'd last a little longer, but you are quite correct.

Floor's all yours.