Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

We hear gruff Yankee skipper telling his apprentice to get his head round bringing the boat into, and out of, port.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hall' i' th'Woods - sounds like 'haul in the woods', which could be some sort of nautical instruction, American or otherwise.

 

[Calthrop]

Well-thought, but over-thought. Arcane nautical lingo is not actually involved.

 

[Calthrop]

Alternative clue:

New thing in the jazz line? --- blue ra-ra horn: confusingly, in a part of the world usually seen as decidedly un-hip.

 

[Loppylugs]

Larne Harbour ?

 

[Calthrop]

Larne Harbour ?

Correct ! (Original clue involved skipper telling apprentice, in American-speak, "Larn [learn] harbour [or 'harbor', as those folk would spell it ]".)

Your floor.

 

[Loppylugs]

London cleaner confused within walls of Whitehall ? Moved up north.

Sorry if anyone read my first clue but I think this one is easier to work out.

 

[Loppylugs]

A hint: Common London cleaner should help, walls are the outside of things and the station is up north.

 

[Calthrop]

Just to suggest something -- thinking "char" (salt-of-the-earth though most charladies undoubtedly are, even if not out of the top social drawer) -- Arrochar & Tarbet??

 

[Loppylugs]

Not that far north Calthrop. It's in England.

 

[Calthrop]

Not that far north Calthrop. It's in England.

I rather suspected so -- idea was best I could think off, but an admittedly bad "best".

 

[John Griffiths]

Charlbury?

Char as above; the letter L is confined in the walls of Whitehall, and for some Bury is up north (though Midlands from where I am).

 

[Loppylugs]

Sorry John, not Charlbury. One of the walls of Whitehall is l. Within that and the other part of the wall you will find the confused London cleaner. Just to confuse (or help) you more, Common in this case is not an adjective, it is a noun. All part of the deceit. The net result is a station north to me but Midlands to you !

 

[neilmc]

I think the answer may be WOMBWELL. Matter of station search once I'd sussed that "London Cleaner" referred to the Wombles! Clever clues!

 

[Loppylugs]

I think the answer may be WOMBWELL. Matter of station search once I'd sussed that "London Cleaner" referred to the Wombles! Clever clues!

You are correct. Well done. The walls of Whitehall are W and L and womble is hidden within. All yours.

 

[neilmc]

Thanks Loppylugs.

Now:

This station is uniquely served by the worst bodger unit!

 

[Loppylugs]

Tonbridge ? Anagram of bodger unit plus the u for unique.

 

[neilmc]

Right idea but it's the WORST bodger unit so not Tonbridge!

 

[D6130]

Stourbridge Town?

 

[neilmc]

D6130 has it again - anagram of "worst bodger unit", uniquely served by the Parry People Mover which might be considered a "bodger unit"!

 

[D6130]

Slim Celtic girl or remote Celtic junction?

 

[RobertsN]

Antrim? (as in Ann is trim) or that it is in northern Ireland?

 

[D6130]

Antrim? (as in Ann is trim) or that it is in northern Ireland?

Afraid not..... but I can see where you're coming from. Remember that most of my clues involve anagrams!

 

[D6130]

To celebrate my 500th post, I'll give you another clue:

Although this station is in the West of one Celtic country, a slim girl from the West of another Celtic country would pass through it after a ferry crossing.

 

[Calthrop]

I continue to rack brains and get nowhere ! In frame of mind of coming up with some input, however ridiculous -- how about Bellarena, Northern Ireland? With Bella from those parts, having gone through a rigorous slimming regime: she is now -- compared to how she was before -- considerably "reaner" (if you're Japanese )...

 

[D6130]

I continue to rack brains and get nowhere ! In frame of mind of coming up with some input, however ridiculous -- how about Bellarena, Northern Ireland? With Bella from those parts, having gone through a rigorous slimming regime: she is now -- compared to how she was before -- considerably "reaner" (if you're Japanese )...

Some wonderful lateral thinking there.....but still way off I'm afraid. As we only seem to have one other person racking their brains, shall I give you the answer?

 

[Calthrop]

I for one, would be glad to be "put out of my misery" !

 

[neilmc]

No idea, don't even know which country I'm supposed to be in and can't untangle any anagram. Give in.

 

[johnnychips]

No, give us a bit of a geographic/railway company clue! If Celtic implies Ireland/NI or Scotland, can you tell us which one?

 

[D6130]

If Celtic implies Ireland/NI or Scotland, can you tell us which one?

Neither NI or Scotland. Other Celtic lands in these islands include Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and the Isle of Man. Think of the ferry clue and assume that the girl in question is travelling on a train in one Celtic land, having recently disembarked from a ferry which has carried her from another Celtic land. There is now only one ferry route between two Celtic lands in these islands which still has direct rail connections at both ends, The answer is an anagram of a cryptic clue (sorry!). Good luck!