Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

I think it might be:

Maesteg Ewenny Road

You think rightly -- an anagram. Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

How about:

Good place for a Northern wander around, but watch out for crazy Andrew, the mixed-up warden!

 

[Calthrop]

Darwen?

 

[neilmc]

Yep, why have one anagram when three can be found?

 

[Calthrop]

Mine, I take it.

North of the border: publicity exercise, expire with dignity

 

[Karl]

Airdrie?

 

[Calthrop]

Afraid not.

 

[Calthrop]

Best I can do for a hint, is an alternative part-clue. How about, after the ":" increase; namely; water source

 

[neilmc]

I think it's Addiewell, which I admit is somewhere I've never heard of

 

[Calthrop]

Addiewell it is (I confess that I had to scour the timetable stations-index, to discover it). Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

Layers every one, so no cock, but serviced three times per day!

 

[Calthrop]

Hensall?

 

[Calthrop]

Hensall?

Apologies for double post

 

[neilmc]

Hensall it certainly is. Weird to have one train per day in one direction and two in the other, but that's our wonderful railways for you. Back to you again.

 

[Calthrop]

Long ago, there was a narrow-gauge branch line in Poland which had one train per day in one direction, and none in the other -- however, that country is "something else" in a number of ways !

Next one:

Disjointed aardvark golfs e'en less at place where three rivers join the sea

 

[Calthrop]

Narrowing things down very considerably: at this station there is a connection between the "regular" national network, and a heritage line.

 

[neilmc]

This one might confuse people - I thought I knew what it was, but the letters didn't fit.

Looking on t'internet, I found that my answer was known for a time as:

Ravenglass FOR Eskdale

 

[Calthrop]

I tend to rely on my 2013 -- 14 complete GB Rail Timetable: got "R for E" from there. Had better, in future, check on the Net; sorry about, as came to be, unfair clue ! neilmc, your floor.

 

[neilmc]

British brown butterfly found not far from Bahamas; it's Glorious around here!

 

[Calthrop]

Just to kick off, though I doubt that this will be right: Meadowhall??

 

[Esker-pades]

Sunnymeads?

 

[neilmc]

Nope and nope. Two ways to approach this:

a) find a British butterfly list and study the names (there's not all that many)
b) think what (and where) Bahamas and Glorious have in common and cast your net a bit wider

 

[Calthrop]

Going in almost totally "blind", I'll try: Tyseley (though what that might have to do with butterflies, I know not).

 

[Karl]

Lulworth?

 

[neilmc]

Calthrop's on the right lines, or should I say the right line?.

 

[Calthrop]

Calthrop's on the right lines, or should I say the right line?.

Duh ! Small Heath, I think.

 

[neilmc]

Small Heath it is indeed - a species of butterfly, and also just down the line from Tyseley, where Bahamas (45596) and Glorious (diesel, 50033 I think) are kept. Your floor again.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

In sylvan surroundings; and in Gallic terms -- parental property

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

In sylvan surroundings; and in Gallic terms -- parental property

Hint: this station has a single-word name; which it shares with one word of a two-word well-known motorway services area a little over a hundred miles away.

 

[Esker-pades]

Woodhouse?