Cryptic clues = station name

[duncanp]

How about Wareham? (sounds like "Wear them")

 

[D6130]

Chilham sounds like a possible effect.

Again, I can see where you're coming from....but it's not that one.

Clue: It's two words.

 

[D6130]

How about Wareham? (sounds like "Wear them")

Afraid not! Keep trying.

 

[Calthrop]

I'd thought of two totally silly ones -- but they're both one-word names; so folks are spared !

 

[D6130]

I'd thought of two totally silly ones -- but they're both one-word names; so folks are spared !

Second clue: It's a junction station where a four track main line divides into two double track lines, one of which doesn't have a regular passenger service....but is scheduled to have one in the near future.

 

[duncanp]

Kings Norton ?

This is the junction for the Camp Hill line via Kings Heath and Moseley, which is due to have passenger services reintroduced in a couple of years time.

 

[D6130]

Kings Norton ?

You've got it! Sounds like King's nought on....i.e. naked. The last three kings of Great Britain have also had the title "Emperor of India".

The floor is yours:

 

[duncanp]

Don't know how long this will last but here goes:-

Don't worry, it'll be all right on the night if you need somewhere to leave the car.

 

[johnnychips]

Norden, the P and R on the Swanage railway; and Denis Norden from ‘It’ll be alright on the night’?

 

[duncanp]

Norden, the P and R on the Swanage railway; and Denis Norden from ‘It’ll be alright on the night’?

Yes Norden is correct.

Didn't think it would last long, but it was all I could think of on the spur of the moment.

Your turn.

 

[johnnychips]

Thanks, in fact thank

Yew.

 

[Calthrop]

Upwey? (word "yew", "up-turned")

 

[johnnychips]

Absolutely! All yours.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks. I'll confess, helped by this very same question and answer, having featured on this quiz at least once in years past ...

Faithful City butcher, is troubled -- steak price wars worry he.

 

[duncanp]

Worcestershire Parkway , an anagram of steak price wars worry he

 

[Calthrop]

Worcestershire Parkway , an anagram of steak price wars worry he

Absolutely right -- with the butcher being from Worcester, the "Faithful City". Your floor.

 

[duncanp]

Next clue

Group of scientists use embedded computer network to determine the perfect location.

 

[John Griffiths]

Is it Swanage, of the Swanage Railway?

SAGE is a group of scientists. An internal computer network can be known as a LAN (local area network, I think; I bought some LAN cable last week), so possibly WAN may mean something similarly ITish. Anyway, bung them together and you have Swanage.

 

[duncanp]

Yes Swanage is correct, for the reasons you state.

WAN stands for Wide Area Network.

Your turn.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thank you!

Polish powerhouse might end up here.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you!

Polish powerhouse might end up here.

Straw-clutching, rather; but Poland's Parliament is called the Sejm -- pronounced, I believe, something like "same". Seaham sounds not totally-and-utterly-unlike ...

 

[John Griffiths]

Most ingenious.... but sadly not what I had in mind.

 

[John Griffiths]

Clue: we are not thinking of an eastern European nation.

 

[John Griffiths]

Clue 2: Only SWR trains stop here.

 

[D6130]

Poole?

 

[perryman]

North Sheen?

 

[John Griffiths]

Sorry, not Poole.

Perryman has it - North Sheen is correct. Well done.

 

[Calthrop]

According to the popular calumny, Poles -- and by extension, enthusiasts for Poland -- are a bit dim: please, what's the significance of "powerhouse"?

 

[perryman]

Thanks. The 'polish' but I got, as in 'Mr Sheen'. The 'north' was the assumption that 'Sheen' was correct.

Give me a few minutes please, I'll post a clue soon.

 

[perryman]

Dick was adamant he sung here.