Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Why thank you.

A holy grandparent is walking on water at this station.

St Annes-on-the-Sea

 

[RDP]

Just beaten to it.

 

[InkyScrolls]

St Annes-on-the-Sea

Correct - your turn to bring enlightenment.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct - your turn to bring enlightenment.

Thank you.

Next clue:

A station defined by its length in feet.

 

[duncanp]

Thank you.

Next clue:

A station defined by its length in feet.

Yardley Wood

 

[DaleCooper]

Yardley Wood

Not that.

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank you.

Next clue:

A station defined by its length in feet.

Frant

 

[RDP]

Fleet (feet+l)?

 

[DaleCooper]

Frant

Started well and finished perfectly but the middle was a bit of a let down.

Fleet (feet+l)?

Fleet it is, your turn...

 

[Loppylugs]

Started well and finished perfectly but the middle was a bit of a let down.

Oh I often ran the length of a station chasing trains in my day.

 

[RDP]

Cheers

Another easy one methinks.

Where the mares tag along.

 

[Purple Train]

Maesteg?

 

[RDP]

Not there I'm afraid.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Horsforth?

 

[DaleCooper]

It's definitely not Margate.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Ramsgate?

 

[RDP]

Ramsgate?

Ramsgate it is (anagram of mares tag).

Your turn in the saddle.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Thank you.

Enthusiastic holy man's successful yearning reaches conclusion.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Keyne Wishing Well Halt

 

[InkyScrolls]

Correct - over to you.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

If -- heaven forbid -- a certain South-East Asian country were run by impassioned one-track-minded theists: we might hear, re the station concerned, a re-enacting equivalent of the Bamian tragedy.

 

[John Griffiths]

Talybont?

because it sounds a bit like certain narrow religious types

 

[Calthrop]

Talybont?

because it sounds a bit like certain narrow religious types

There is is indeed a connection with said gentry; but it isn't this one -- it's further-fetched than that.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks.

If -- heaven forbid -- a certain South-East Asian country were run by impassioned one-track-minded theists: we might hear, re the station concerned, a re-enacting equivalent of the Bamian tragedy.

Godstone

 

[Calthrop]

Godstone

Ingenious; but I'm afraid not.

 

[Loppylugs]

ST Alibans Abbey

 

[Calthrop]

ST Alibans Abbey

The ingenuity continues -- but again, sorry, not that one. The Taliban's doings are indeed alluded to; but more obliquely than people would seem to have reckoned hitherto. (Note the area of continent, which is mentioned.)

 

[DaleCooper]

The ingenuity continues -- but again, sorry, not that one. The Taliban's doings are indeed alluded to; but more obliquely than people would seem to have reckoned hitherto. (Note the area of continent, which is mentioned.)

Sole Street (Seoul's treat)

 

[Calthrop]

Sole Street (Seoul's treat)

Think a good deal further south -- a more recent former trouble-spot.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cambridge - Camb as the start of Cambodia, ri being RI, religious instruction, to those of us of a certain age (aka RE or Divinity) and... I haven't thought it through in its entirety.