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Cryptic clues = station name

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Is this station named after an episode in old-time warfare in which the victor granted an amazing degree of mercy, on a stupendously large scale, to the vanquished?
 
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Hint: the name bears a reference to an (in)famous thing which was made in the settlement wherein the station is located.
 
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Calthrop said:
Afraid not. (My knowledge of Lochgelly is zero -- quick Googling has left me little the wiser as to momentous stuff initiated there.)
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I was really clutching at straws there! Lochgelly is - or perhaps now was - the place of manufacture of the belt (or tawse) which was the scourge of generations of badly-behaved Scottish schoolchildren in the days when corporal punishment was still deemed to be acceptable. It was a two foot long thick leather strap - split down the middle from one end as far as the halfway point and with a wider section, punctured by a round hole for hanging it up at the far end - which would be brought down with considerable force, as many times as the teacher deemed to be necessary on the recalcitrant pupil's upturned palms and/or wrists. Ouch! o_O
 
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D6130 said:
I was really clutching at straws there! Lochgelly is - or perhaps now was - the place of manufacture of the belt (or tawse) which was the scourge of generations of badly-behaved Scottish schoolchildren in the days when corporal punishment was still deemed to be acceptable. It was a two foot long thick leather strap - split down the middle from one end as far as the halfway point and with a wider section, punctured by a round hole for hanging it up at the far end - which would be brought down with considerable force, as many times as the teacher deemed to be necessary on the recalcitrant pupil's upturned palms and/or wrists. Ouch! o_O
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I'd heard of the Scottish juvenile-chastisement instrument the tawse; but knew nothing about its Lochgelly connection. Thanks for this interesting piece of lore, which I'm sure I will find invaluable some time in the "Settlement Association" game on these Forums.

Folk seem to be having problems with this one which I've set; if things continue thus, I'll put forward a further fresh clue / hint.
 
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Calthrop said:
Folk seem to be having problems with this one which I've set; if things continue thus, I'll put forward a further fresh clue / hint.
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Alternative clue, "according" --

George William Russell advised, perhaps, to try a yoga-related riding crop, by his friend Yeats when inebriated: tantric quirt, AE.
 
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