Cryptic clues = station name

[Loppylugs]

Shot in the dark - Codsall? Col surrounding Odsal (former home of Bradford Bulls).

Not Codsall

Silkstone Common?

Not Silkstone Common, but you are working on the right lines (so to speak).

 

[DaleCooper]

Not Silkstone Common, but you are working on the right lines (so to speak).

Stonehaven?

 

[Loppylugs]

Stonehaven?

Stonehaven it is. Smooth surface being shaven and another meaning for pitch is tone.
Your floor @DaleCooper.

 

[DaleCooper]

Stonehaven it is. Smooth surface being shaven and another meaning for pitch is tone.
Your floor @DaleCooper.

Thank you.

Here's one for any toolmakers among you:

It's made from tungsten, centre drilled and turned.

 

[Caboose Class]

Thank you.

Here's one for any toolmakers among you:

It's made from tungsten, centre drilled and turned.

Crewe?

 

[DaleCooper]

Crewe?

Good try and I see how you got there, unfortunately it's incorrect.

 

[Caboose Class]

Good try and I see how you got there, unfortunately it's incorrect.

One last shot before I throw in the towel - Darwen?

 

[DaleCooper]

One last shot before I throw in the towel - Darwen?

I don't know how you got that, your first attempt was better. Don't give up...

Hint: W is a good start to solving this one, it's also a good ending.

 

[Calthrop]

Wishaw? (only because of the two w's)

 

[DaleCooper]

Wishaw? (only because of the two w's)

Not Wishaw

Hint: You start with a W and finish with a W but there's only one W.

 

[Calthrop]

Hint: You start with a W and finish with a W but there's only one W.

Thoughts irresistibly conjured up, of the celebrated Oozelum Bird and its behaviour...

 

[Caboose Class]

I think (hope) I might have (finally) got it! Wem? It's a 180 degree centrally turned palindrome.
If I'm wrong, the noose awaits!!

 

[DaleCooper]

I think (hope) I might have (finally) got it! Wem? It's a 180 degree centrally turned palindrome.
If I'm wrong, the noose awaits!!

Even I wouldn't use a vertically flipped palindrome!

Hint: Chandler's creation with the tip cut off.

 

[Caboose Class]

Even I wouldn't use a vertically flipped palindrome!

Hint: Chandler's creation with the tip cut off.

Marlow???????

 

[DaleCooper]

Marlow???????

Correct - Wolfram (aka Tungsten) with centre (f) drilled out and the whole thing turned around = Marlow.

Your turn...

 

[Caboose Class]

Correct - Wolfram (aka Tungsten) with centre (f) drilled out and the whole thing turned around = Marlow.

Your turn...

Do you know, Wolfram never even entered my train of thought (only W). Good clue. Very good clue!

Ok, tonight's little teaser:- What a hard-up farmer had to do we hear

 

[Calthrop]

Sellafield?

 

[Caboose Class]

Sellafield?

Absolutely - well done! Over to you, Sir.

 

[Calthrop]

Sellafield?

Absolutely - well done! Over to you, Sir.

That station has been a great favourite in this game, for a fair few years !

After meridional indicator, this one -- we variously read, and hear -- runs, over two words, the vegetable / animal / mineral gamut.

 

[Caboose Class]

Time for a punt - but more in the hope of eliciting a further clue from you!
Long(itude?) Preston? Feeble attempt, I know.

 

[Calthrop]

Not Long Preston, I'm afraid -- different pre-nationalisation company, and in a far-removed-therefrom part of the island.

"Meridional" -- not precisely latitude-and-longitude stuff; more, as a word pertaining to a particular cardinal compass point (first word of three-word name; the second and third words involve the vegetable-etc. business).

 

[DaleCooper]

That station has been a great favourite in this game, for a fair few years !

After meridional indicator, this one -- we variously read, and hear -- runs, over two words, the vegetable / animal / mineral gamut.

South Woodham Ferrers?

 

[Calthrop]

South Woodham Ferrers?

Correct ! "Meridional" = south; wood ("vegetable kingdom") / ham (animal) / sounds like "ferrous" (mineral).

Your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct ! "Meridional" = south; wood ("vegetable kingdom") / ham (animal) / sounds like "ferrous" (mineral).

Your floor.

Thank you.

I get the feeling that this thread has been hogged by a few contributors (including me) recently so I propose a time limited open floor expiring at 0900 tomorrow (26th) for someone other than the aforementioned motley crew (you know who you are) with a brilliant clue who has been champing at the bit to share it. If no clue has been posted by the deadline I will be forced to post yet another one.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you.

I get the feeling that this thread has been hogged by a few contributors (including me) recently so I propose a time limited open floor expiring at 0900 tomorrow (26th) for someone other than the aforementioned motley crew (you know who you are) with a brilliant clue who has been champing at the bit to share it. If no clue has been posted by the deadline I will be forced to post yet another one.

OK -- I hereby pledge to abstain till the stated hour (probably a few hours longer, I having a morning errand to run).

 

[Neo9320]

If I may (first time please don’t crucify me)

Part of this scotch bonnet reveals its value

 

[Caboose Class]

Thank you.

I get the feeling that this thread has been hogged by a few contributors (including me) recently so I propose a time limited open floor expiring at 0900 tomorrow (26th) for someone other than the aforementioned motley crew (you know who you are) with a brilliant clue who has been champing at the bit to share it. If no clue has been posted by the deadline I will be forced to post yet another one.

We are what we are - a few Cryptos who rattle in our cages. It would be nice if we could enlarge our Circle to include more participants. Some Quiz forums seem to have lots of contributors - sadly not ours. Perhaps cryptic crosswords are not the "in thing" any more? Does anyone have any ideas how we might attract new members to our Club?

 

[D6130]

Tamworth?

 

[Neo9320]

Tamworth?

Gosh darn knew that would be easy…all I could think of.
Your floor!

 

[Neo9320]

We are what we are - a few Cryptos who rattle in our cages. It would be nice if we could enlarge our Circle to include more participants. Some Quiz forums seem to have lots of contributors - sadly not ours. Perhaps cryptic crosswords are not the "in thing" any more? Does anyone have any ideas how we might attract new members to our Club?

Maybe a few links to ‘how to’ articles/videos pinned to the top of the thread?