Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Clue: Discount those erroneous canals, concentrate on the one real one!

 

[GusB]

Marsden?

 

[neilmc]

You got it, Gus - well done! Your turn.

 

[GusB]

I haven't got time to think one up just now, so open floor.

 

[johnnychips]

Roughly rubs - ahem - the joint at this station.

 

[johnnychips]

Clue: it’s in NW England.

 

[johnnychips]

Clue 2: it’s two words.

 

[johnnychips]

Clue 3: This place has two stations; the first name is common to both.

 

[DanTrain]

Burscough Junction?

 

[johnnychips]

Good man!

Roughly rubs = anagram Burs
Ahem = cough
Joint = junction

 

[DanTrain]

Try this one:
Un animal levé

 

[johnnychips]

Chathill?

 

[DanTrain]

Yes, chat is French for cat and then it is raised (levé) - i.e. on a hill.

Your turn

 

[johnnychips]

Damage in Gerald’s front at this station.

 

[backontrack]

Gerrard's Cross?

 

[johnnychips]

No, it's in England, north of an imaginary line through Buxton.

 

[neilmc]

Grindleford?

 

[johnnychips]

No but you’re in the correct county!

 

[neilmc]

OK, I think it's Dinting!

 

[neilmc]

If I'm right, I nearly missed it because Dinting is in Derbyshire but, like Glossop and Hadfield, looks towards Manchester and you can't use a Derbyshire Peak Wayfarer on the line! In fact, it's quite difficult to get to ANYWHERE else in Derbyshire by public transport without going through GM territory!

 

[johnnychips]

Hi yes you are right. I nearly gave ‘NW England’ as the clue, but technically it’s in the East Midlands, though it looks to Manchester for everything.

Damage = Dint
In
Gerald’s front = g

 

[neilmc]

Mythic Mark, Crewe station figurer, heads South for a notable long namer. But it's not a steamer, and it's certainly not a Warship!

 

[neilmc]

Clues: Obviously an anagram. Quite a "long namer" so not that easy. The last part is a hint at transport preservation, but not as we know it on this site!

 

[backontrack]

I'm puzzled.

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport?

 

[neilmc]

Nope, not Rhoose. The answer is actually FIVE words long. Oh, it's not an ex-BR station, but neither is it on a preserved railway. But it's transport preservation of some kind. And it's not in Scotland, though also connected with Robert Burns . Clues enough?

 

[backontrack]

I'm still puzzled!

Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich?

 

[neilmc]

Yes indeed! The Cutty Sark was one of our last sailing ships, a tea clipper, so it's not a "steamer" nor a "warship"! The name comes from a poem by Robert Burns and refers to an underskirt worn by a witch, believe it or not!

 

[backontrack]

Ah, yes, thank you! Sorry I took so long, but here's my clue:

Curses! Curses to one and everything!

 

[DanTrain]

Sugar Loaf? (on the basis of 'curses' being an anagram of 'sucres', being French for sugar. Tenuos and most likely wrong, I know!)

 

[neilmc]

Hexham?