Man takes elevated rail-road in the US to private place of worship (6)
I believe the answer is:
chapel
'place of worship' is the definition.
(chapel is a kind of place of worship)
'man takes elevated rail-road in the us to private' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'man' could be 'chap' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'chap' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'el' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chapel that I've seen before include "Part of church with its own altar" , "religious building" , "Place of worship with an altar" , "Branch of a newspaper trade union" , "Perhaps part of cathedral" .)