Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

I have a funny turn before we alight here.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

Solve an anagram to find this two-tone station.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint 2:

Served and managed by Southeastern

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint 3:

Convenient for the shops.

 

[Calthrop]

Hint 2:

Served and managed by Southeastern

In desperation, I was imagining some possible, highly obscure halt in Scotland called "The Wheelraig"; but for more than one reason, that's a no-no...

 

[DaleCooper]

In desperation, I was imagining some possible, highly obscure halt in Scotland called "The Wheelraig"; but for more than one reason, that's a no-no...

...and the anagram is considerably longer than that.

Concentrate on the hints:

Solve an anagram to find this two-tone station.
Served and managed by Southeastern
Convenient for the shops.

and hint 4:

The station was rebuilt in 2008.

 

[neilmc]

I think I've got it -

Greenhithe for Bluewater.

Anagram of last five words.

 

[DaleCooper]

I think I've got it -

Greenhithe for Bluewater.

Anagram of last five words.

...and "funny" being the anagram indicator.

Your turn...

 

[neilmc]

Here we are:

Resort to using dodgy Harley - but there's no A + E!

 

[neilmc]

Big big clue - the answer's less than five letters!

 

[DaleCooper]

Rhyl?

 

[neilmc]

Correct! (anagram of Harley minus the A and E!)

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

The Flying Doctor objected to being called here.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

The clue refers to a well known and very funny film.

 

[neilmc]

Dundee? (as in "Crocodile")?

 

[DaleCooper]

Dundee? (as in "Crocodile")?

Crocodile Dundee wasn't a doctor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

Managed and served by London Midland.

 

[DaleCooper]

Big hint:

 

[duncanp]

Shirley?

 

[DaleCooper]

Shirley?

Of course it is.

Your turn...

 

[duncanp]

How about

The Prime Minister thinks that the French are smelly

 

[johnnychips]

How about

The Prime Minister thinks that the French are smelly

Maybole

May = PM
BO = smelly
Le = French for ‘the’

 

[duncanp]

Yes Maybole is correct.

Your turn.

 

[johnnychips]

The characters follow medium or quiet station.

 

[neilmc]

Morpeth?

 

[johnnychips]

Morpeth?

Good answer:

M = Medium
or
p = piano = quiet on musical scores

and following are the characters of 'the', namely e, t and h.

All yours!

 

[neilmc]

A new one ...

Kept poorly in check, but starting harder in Dorset than in Kent.

 

[duncanp]

Gillingham which I think is pronounced with a hard G in Dorset, but a soft G in Kent

 

[neilmc]

Excellent reasoning there, correct of course.

Poorly = ill and check = gingham.

 

[duncanp]

Next clue : no tradeswomen allowed here unless they get changed