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Cryptic clues = station name

InkyScrolls

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Making myself highly popular, in the way that foreign-lingo-pedantic smart-arses do :E : I think you'll find that "of" in Dutch is van -- von is the German word for same. Otherwise -- splendidly ingenious clue !
Dearie me! As a fellow foreign-lingo-pedantic smart-arse, I'm not sure how that passed me by. Especially as I speak German! :oops:
 
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One could get supercilious about "lesser breeds" and the indistinguishable / interchangeable baboon-jargons which they spout; but it would be preferable not to be censored by the mods for extreme un-PC-ness ...
 

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Near enough!

Dreary = drab
But tumultuous = anagram of drab
River crossing = ford
Lies above = on
An article = a
Of Dutch (origin) = von

Over to you.
I forgive the mistaken use of "von" but I'm less forgiving of an anagram of a word that isn't in the clue, for me that's a big no-no. "Awfully drab river crossing..." would have been acceptable.

Next clue:

For this station Land's End is south.
 

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I forgive the mistaken use of "von" but I'm less forgiving of an anagram of a word that isn't in the clue, for me that's a big no-no. "Awfully drab river crossing..." would have been acceptable.

Next clue:

For this station Land's End is south.
Diss (end letter of land + is + s for south)
 

Calthrop

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Thanks !

En route toward rival 'varsity to that of subject -- filthy Dawk was porter: muddlesome enemy of godless academic, ascribes lowlier occupation to him.
 
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Calthrop

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My thanks.

Amang the Weegies -- could be readable: fish as proprietor of bolthole for ungentlemanly person.
 

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I understand the second part but what does "Amang the Weegies -- could be readable" mean?

Intended as maybe a bit of an additional hint (urban central Scotland's stations largely a mystery to me, though no doubt not to all). People from elsewhere in Scotland often refer colloquially (and not always affectionately) to Glasgow folk, as "Weegies" (corruption / abbreviation of "Glaswegians"). "Could be readable": alternative version of "we read", as opposed to "we hear" -- the name spoken will sound, I take it, something like "Gar-scad-d'n", emphasis on second syllable -- dens for cads, not obvious thus.
 

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Up north (especially) -- might have been read-as-though-heard, in anger 1970 -- 74, from political adversary of the PM.
 

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