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anvilius discovered 22 months ago- "'Slow Train' is a song by Flanders and Swann, written in 1964. It laments the loss of British stations and railway lines in that era, due to the Beeching cuts, and also the passing of a way of life, with the advent of motorways etc."
- KahlilaGibran rated 7 months ago
- Cloggy and I share a love of English place names (not to mention anything northern England). The lyrics of a Flanders and Swann song, below, celebrate them beautifully. No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe 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 againOn 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 highAt Dog Dyke, Tumby WoodsideAnd 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. Slow Train was written in the Sixties, when the axe was falling on many railway lines and people were being funnelled onto motorways. Yes, even in old England.
