Slow Train
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12284468
Miller’s Dale for Tideswell, Kirkby Muxloe,
Mow Cop and Scholar Green
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street
We won’t be meeting again
On the slow train.
I’ll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw
At Long Stanton I’ll stand well clear of the doors no more
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won’t be going again
On the slow train.
On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.
The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They’ve all passed out of our lives
On the slow train
On the slow train.
Cockermouth for Buttermere
On the slow train
Armley Moor Arram … Pye Hill and Somercotes
On the slow train
Windmill End.
By Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, http://www.badsey.net/will/station_rev.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12284468
Miller’s Dale for Tideswell, Kirkby Muxloe,
Mow Cop and Scholar Green
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street
We won’t be meeting again
On the slow train.
I’ll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw
At Long Stanton I’ll stand well clear of the doors no more
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won’t be going again
On the slow train.
On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.
The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They’ve all passed out of our lives
On the slow train
On the slow train.
Cockermouth for Buttermere
On the slow train
Armley Moor Arram … Pye Hill and Somercotes
On the slow train
Windmill End.
By Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, http://www.badsey.net/will/station_rev.htm
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Date: 2011-01-26 06:46 pm (UTC)St Ives does still have a station! Wikipedia seems to think it was planned to close, but didn't.
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Date: 2011-01-27 07:56 am (UTC)ETA: In fact, the Night Riviera connects at St Erth with a train to St Ives: http://www.seat61.com/Cornwall-sleeper.htm
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Date: 2011-01-26 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 07:56 am (UTC)(Now I want a soundcard on my PC at work ... )
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Date: 2011-01-27 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 07:45 am (UTC)