Cryptic clues = station name

[DaleCooper]

Ludlow?

No, that's not it.

 

[RDP]

Havenhouse?

 

[DaleCooper]

Havenhouse?

No, not that.

 

[DaleCooper]

A minor change to the clue which provides a hint:

After a stroke the olde return here.

 

[DaleCooper]

Another hint:

There might be a butterfly in your back or breast pocket.

 

[DaleCooper]

Is no one going to dive in with a guess and perhaps make a bit of a splash?

 

[Calthrop]

Bathgate? -- swimming baths...??

 

[RDP]

Bath Spa?

 

[DaleCooper]

Bathgate? -- swimming baths...??

Bath Spa?

No and no.

I expected this to go swimmingly, it seems I was wrong.

To recap:

After a stroke the olde return here.
There might be a butterfly in your back or breast pocket.
Is no one going to dive in with a guess and perhaps make a bit of a splash?

Another hint:

I'll have to go on my hands and knees and admit that it's served by Southern and Thameslink.

 

[RDP]

Crawley?

 

[DaleCooper]

Crawley?

At last! I was running out of hints, your turn...

 

[RDP]

Cheers. Something a lot easier methinks.

Fred's entrance?

 

[neilmc]

This is hard. All I can come up with is:

Perry Barr

 

[DaleCooper]

Westgate-on-Sea

 

[RDP]

Perry Barr

Westgate-on-Sea

Neither of those.

additional clue. The Fred is fictional.

 

[DaleCooper]

additional clue. The Fred is fictional.

(Flint)Stonegate

 

[RDP]

(Flint)Stonegate

It is Stonegate

Your turn.

 

[DaleCooper]

It is Stonegate

Your turn.

Why Stonegate?

As my answer was facetious it's open floor...

 

[Calthrop]

On the way to the big waves -- inklings got, reading: of beauty preparation brands; soap, and oil (with behind-the-times, and slight mis-spelling, elements); and, indefinite article.

 

[John Griffiths]

To get things rolling, the only inklings I have heard of are JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, on which wobbly basis,  Lewisham.

 

[DaleCooper]

Luxulyan

 

[Calthrop]

To get things rolling, the only inklings I have heard of are JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, on which wobbly basis,  Lewisham.

No -- further west / south-west, than those guys' well-known "manor".

Luxulyan

That's it: Lux soap, Oil of -- nowadays, Olay; till quite recently, Ulay -- and an. On the branch to surfing paradise Newquay.

@DaleCooper -- over to you.

 

[DaleCooper]

That's it: Lux soap, Oil of -- nowadays, Olay; till quite recently, Ulay -- and an. On the branch to surfing paradise Newquay.

@DaleCooper -- over to you.

Open floor again...

 

[InkyScrolls]

An easy one:

If you miaow at the cat, it might mew back!

 

[RDP]

Wem?

 

[InkyScrolls]

But of course - your turn to set us a clue.

 

[RDP]

Cheers And the next one.

It would appear that a German and a Swede now own this station.

 

[Calthrop]

Frizinghall?? -- Fritz and Inge?

 

[RDP]

Frizinghall?? -- Fritz and Inge?

No. Wrong part of the country.

 

[DaleCooper]

Goring-by-Sea