Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Thanks Dale.

How about:

Change for Attenborough, as meerkats ran amok

 

[duncanp]

Market Rasen?

 

[neilmc]

Well done duncanp. Would entail a pleasant walk across Newark to catch the train to Attenborough.

 

[duncanp]

OK, let's try

Sounds like somewhere you might wait for a flight at an American airport.

 

[Calthrop]

Brading (how a Yank might pronounce "boarding")??

 

[DaleCooper]

Newark North Gate?

 

[duncanp]

Yes it is Newark North Gate.

Too easy obviously.

Your go.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

Unable to sing, a fife is played instead.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

Unable to sing, a fife is played instead.

This might have happened at the eisteddfod a long time ago.

 

[duncanp]

Blaenau Ffestiniog?

 

[DaleCooper]

Blaenau Ffestiniog?

Blaenau Ffestiniog, the venue of the 1898 National Eisteddfod, is correct.

Your turn...

 

[duncanp]

Move along dear, there aren't many trains at this station nowadays.

 

[neilmc]

March?

 

[duncanp]

No it isn't March.

 

[Calthrop]

Buckfastleigh?? (on a preserved line: over the course of a year, not all that many trains compared with commercial service 52 weeks per year ?)

 

[duncanp]

No it isn't Buckfastleigh.

The answer is a National Rail station in the Greater London area.

 

[neilmc]

Angel Road?

 

[duncanp]

Yes Angel Road is correct, being an anagram of along dear.

Your turn.

 

[neilmc]

I'm off away for a week tomorrow, so if nobody gets this default to open floor:

In Exeter, short dated school milk shake sent up North to somewhere more scenic.

 

[duncanp]

Oxenholme Lake District

 

[neilmc]

Yeah, you got it!

 

[duncanp]

Next clue:-

Now to the Northern Lights scattered over Scotland

 

[Harbornite]

Nailsea and Backwell.

 

[duncanp]

No it is not Nailsea and Blackwell.

As the clue hints, the station is in Scotland.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:-

Now to the Northern Lights scattered over Scotland

I keep seeing Linlithgow in the clue but can't justify it.

 

[duncanp]

No it isn't Linlithgow, but to get to the answer station from Linlithgow, you would have to change at Haymarket.

 

[Calthrop]

Glenrothes with Thornton? Open floor if correct.

 

[duncanp]

Yes it is Glenrothes With Thornton, being an anagram of Now to the Northern Lights.

 

[GusB]

If it's open floor I'll give it a go:

Mr Gump appears to have missed his tea.

 

[DaleCooper]

Forres?