Yes ... but so is Corkicle ... good connection but not the group I have, nor a connection I made.

 
Severn Beach, Blue Anchor, Carbis Bay, Dawlish Warren  - All directly on the coast near a beach

 

Yes - that is exactly the first connection I had ...

 
Battersby, Bere Alston, Bodmin General, Coombe Junction

All locations where through trains stop and reverse, before continuing along a different line of route to that which they arrived on.

 
How many members watch "Only Connect" on TV (BBC2)? One of the games the teams are asked to answer if to find four groups of four somehow-related words or things from a 4 by 4 wall of 16 - for example four words that express happiness, or four names that contain a foodstuff.  It's made more complex by the categories being somewhat obscure, and by there being more than four items that fit a category - those extre combinations ruled out because some of the items fit multiple categories and those that multi-fit have to be in the "right" place because of the need for four in some other group which might otherwiser be incomplete.

Only Connect uses ancient Egyptian hyroglyphs to name questions ... and is played by two teams.   Here is my first wall for today (a second is prepared and may follow) - the "Lion" wall.  Expect me to reject some apparent good conbinations with "no, that's not it" as you find four perfectly good linked items, but one or more have to be held back for another category.

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The British Railways lion on wheel emblem, designed by Abram Games. Photo by Nottsexminer [CC BY-SA 2.0] via flickr and via the beauty of Transport