Cryptic clues = station name

[John Griffiths]

Beverley? Little cubs in the scout movement are called beavers, and I think the name Beverley might have beavery connotations. As for the rest of the clue...

 

[RobertsN]

Beverley? Little cubs in the scout movement are called beavers, and I think the name Beverley might have beavery connotations. As for the rest of the clue...

Sorry, not Beverley either.

Another clue:
Up and about you lazy soldiers, it's dawn already!

 

[Calthrop]

Valley??? (from the soldiers' getting-up thing, Reveille -- pronounced "revalley"); to quote @John Griffiths, "As for the rest of the clue..."

 

[RobertsN]

Valley??? (from the soldiers' getting-up thing, Reveille -- pronounced "revalley"); to quote @John Griffiths, "As for the rest of the clue..."

Sorry, not valley. Though however not to really off the mark... "Reveille" might have something to do with it.

New hint:
In western worlds, we awake before.

 

[Calthrop]

Dare I ask -- is it perhaps, not a National Rail station? If it is National Rail; I'm totally at a loss.

 

[plymothian]

Bugle?

 

[RobertsN]

Bugle?

Most definitely so.

Your floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Most definitely so.

Your floor.

I'm thick -- please could you explain, why particularly "Bugle"?

 

[RobertsN]

I'm thick -- please could you explain, why particularly "Bugle"?

Most definitely can explain the hints.

A bugle, musical instrument, is used among armies and scout troups as well. In particular to mark rising (wake up) time. It is also used for other purposes in many scout troops, such as calls to order, etc. The "western worlds" was a hint towards the GWR.

More details on the bugle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugle

 

[Calthrop]

I knew the essentials, re bugles and their use -- but as said earlier, am totally not into Scouting stuff; wouldn't have made association between the one and t'other. Thanks, anyway.

 

[RobertsN]

I knew the essentials, re bugles and their use -- but as said earlier, am totally not into Scouting stuff; wouldn't have made association between the one and t'other. Thanks, anyway.

No probs, a Scout for quite a few years in my (now distant) youth

 

[Calthrop]

My parents made vague noises about how it might be a good idea; but I wasn't having a bar of it -- looking back now, can envisage possible actually pleasant aspects of the scene...

 

[RobertsN]

My parents made vague noises about how it might be a good idea; but I wasn't having a bar of it -- looking back now, can envisage possible actually pleasant aspects of the scene...

There's certain values and concepts included in scouting which I still today find useful and very appropriate. It will always depend, obviously, on personal opinions and points of view.

At 52, I believe that Scouting was the beginning of a very fruitful learning path (among others) and (hopefully) becoming a better person. I would definitely suggest this for sons/grandsons. Sorry, going off topic here....

 

[Calthrop]

I was a timid, wimpy, sedentary kid: everything I heard about Cubs / Scouts / all-and-sundry similar stuff, had me feeling that it sounded like being in the army -- stuff of my worst waking nightmares; I totally "didn't want to know". As they sometimes say: youth is too precious to be wasted on the young...

 

[John Griffiths]

We had a 'Sixer' who would stamp on our feet if we weren't' correctly lined up (shoes polished, toes right on the line) at the start of Cub pack meetings!

 

[John Griffiths]

But I appreciate that is by the by...

 

[Calthrop]

Ha ! Maybe juvenile me, was in fact onto something after all ...

 

[RobertsN]

Ha ! Maybe juvenile me, was in fact onto something after all ...

 

[plymothian]

Bill Sikes doesn't like the inhabitants here.

 

[d9009alycidon]

Bethnal Green?

 

[neilmc]

Bow Street - the new station in Wales, not in London?

 

[plymothian]

Bow Street - the new station in Wales, not in London?

That's the one.

 

[neilmc]

Is this station on the west coast? Yes.
Is it Lime Street? No, but not far away, cryptically speaking.
So it's in Merseyside? No, it's more rural.
Can I drive there? Technically Yes but I might not recommend it.

 

[neilmc]

Clue 2 :If you mix orange and red, what colour do you get?

 

[Loppylugs]

Must be an anagram. Green Road

 

[neilmc]

Loppylugs has it - also "Green Road" is not too dissimilar from "Lime Street" and a "green road" is also an unmaintained byway along which you're allowed to drive.

 

[Loppylugs]

Thanks Neil. Let's try Old Cricketer scores well.

 

[Loppylugs]

Bit of help here. The "old" cricketer was in his heyday in the early 1980's.

 

[d9009alycidon]

Gowerton?

 

[Loppylugs]

Well worked out Alycidon. David Gower scoring a ton. All yours.