Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Dale got in less than half an hour, need some harder ones!

 

[DaleCooper]

Dale got in less than half an hour, need some harder ones!

Thank you.

Next clue:

This station should be adorned with a wreath and one hundred assorted trees.

 

[johnnychips]

Leicester? A lei is a Hawaiian garland. C is Roman for 100, then assorted trees is an anagram.

 

[DaleCooper]

Leicester? A lei is a Hawaiian garland. C is Roman for 100, then assorted trees is an anagram.

Correct in every respect, your turn...

 

[johnnychips]

Thanks Dale.

Girl - pointlessly - is the most superior driver.

 

[johnnychips]

Girl - pointlessly - is the most superior driver.

…in West Wales.

 

[Loppylugs]

Girl - pointlessly - is the most superior driver.

…in West Wales.

Got to be Clarbeston Road then.

 

[johnnychips]

It certainly is. All yours!

 

[Loppylugs]

It certainly is. All yours!

Thank-you.

Retirement homes for badgers?

 

[RDP]

Settle?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank-you.

Retirement homes for badgers?

Brockholes

 

[Loppylugs]

Settle?

Good thinking... but

Brockholes

Brockholes it is - over to you.

 

[DaleCooper]

Brockholes it is - over to you.

Thank you.

Next clue:

In this part of the country err rhymes with air.

 

[duncanp]

Hairmyres

 

[DaleCooper]

Hairmyres

That took less time to solve than it took to compose, your turn...

 

[duncanp]

I can't think of a decent clue at the moment, so I will declare open floor.

 

[RDP]

I'll have a go. I don't expect this to last long either.

Certain inhabitants of an Italian city and a certain class of GWR tank engine coud be said to have relatives at this station.

 

[RDP]

Look lik I was wrong about this one not lasting long.

An additional clue. Think theatrical.

 

[Calthrop]

The following ls ludicrous -- but just maybe to get things rolling: I'll suggest Montpelier. Romeo and Juliet is to do with the feuding Montague and Capulet families in Verona; and "pannier" -- GW tank loco speciality -- looks / sounds just a little bit like "pelier" ...

 

[Neo9320]

I’ll try simplicity…Roman bridge?

 

[RDP]

Neither of those is correct. Much more recent than Shakespeare.

 

[John Griffiths]

Might we be thinking of Gilbert and Sullivan, RDP?

 

[RDP]

Could be.

 

[Calthrop]

Who dares, wins (or loses, and makes an idiot of themself) -- if I remember rightly, G & S's Gondoliers are called Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri; the GW liked to paint its locos in green livery -- Palmers Green.

 

[RDP]

Not as complicated as that but if it helps the clue refers to more than one work.

 

[John Griffiths]

<Hums 'Three Little Maids from School are We' while groping blindly for possible answer>

 

[RDP]

I wil give it away by saying that The Gondoliers and The Mikado are both part of the answer that should lead us to our station

 

[John Griffiths]

Penzance?

 

[RDP]

That's the one. To summarise, the Italian city was Venice, a reference to The Gondoliers, Th GWR tank engine was the 7200 class, a reference to the Mikado (2-8-2 wheel arrangement) leading to a third work The Pirates of Penzance.

You turn to stage the next production

 

[DaleCooper]

That's the one. To summarise, the Italian city was Venice, a reference to The Gondoliers, Th GWR tank engine was the 7200 class, a reference to the Mikado (2-8-2 wheel arrangement) leading to a third work The Pirates of Penzance.

Really!