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what are your favourite songs or pieces of music with a railway connection or title??

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just wondering what other folk's favourite music or songs are with a railway connection,mention in the lyrics,or just a piece of music that reminds you of the railway and if it reminds you of anything in particular,one of mine is The Smiths "these things take time" when mozzer sings "mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind you took me behind a dis-used railway line" reminds me of messing around the eleven arches bridge on the old rugby-leicester line in me youth
 
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I listen to HandsUp and Trance music a lot (along with Electro and House): HandsUp & Trance music are PER-FECT for train travels ! :D (at least some ^^)
 

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Homeward Bound by Simon & Garfunkel.

Supposedly written on Warrington Bank Quay (though some say Runcorn) station.
 

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"Metal On Metal" by Kraftwerk or "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne.

PS also of course "Marrakesh Express" by Crosby Stills & Nash.
 
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Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo.

Simon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
"I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination...".

The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight.

The theme to Get Carter, think it's called Carter Takes a Train.

I quite like Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk but it goes on a bit.

Could probably think of some more but I'm on my tea break at work so haven't got much time...
 

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This Train Don't Stop There Anymore by Elton John is symbolic of the Steam Locomotives that saw barely a fraction of their working life in public service before being scrapped.

As a example, BR's 9F 92220 Evening Star only saw 5 years in public use before being withdrawn in 1965 luckily being preserved by the National Collection.
 

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Got to be the Bullet For My Valentine cover of Crazy Train. Or The Jam Going Underground, kinda like the tube. Not to mention the parody :P
 

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Rod Stewart's version of 'Downtown Train'.
Because a lady friend of mine sometimes uses FCC to get to Bedford, and because their services use the sub-surface platforms at St Pancras, one line is now:
'The downstairs trains are full/Full of all them Bedford girls' :D

Oh, and Visage's 'Night Train', KLF's 'Last Train To Trancentral', Flash And The Pan's 'Waiting For A Train', Pet Shop Boys' 'King's Cross' and Godley And Creme's 'Under Your Thumb'.
 

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"Take the A train" by Duke Ellington. The A train is one of the New York subway routes. Anglia Railways referred to themselves as "The A train" at one point, though I don't think they used the tune.
 

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Trains generally:
Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Bob Dylan
Downbound Train - Bruce Springsteen
Train to Nowhere - Savoy Brown
The Slow Train - Flanders and Swann
Freight Train Blues - Bob Dylan
Traintime - Cream


Specific trains:

City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills and Nash
Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Last Train to Clarkesville - The Monkees


Railway companies:

Rock Island Line - Little Richard
She Caught The Katy - Blues Brothers
 

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The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Released just a few weeks before the sun really did set on Southern Region steam.
 

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Rod Stewart's version of 'Downtown Train'.
Because a lady friend of mine sometimes uses FCC to get to Bedford, and because their services use the sub-surface platforms at St Pancras, one line is now:
'The downstairs trains are full/Full of all them Bedford girls' :D

Oh, and Visage's 'Night Train', KLF's 'Last Train To Trancentral', Flash And The Pan's 'Waiting For A Train', Pet Shop Boys' 'King's Cross' and Godley And Creme's 'Under Your Thumb'.

Top songs!!!:D
 

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An unusual song I stumbled across by Ry Cooder is "Tamp 'em up solid". A presumably old American railroad workmans song about the graft of the railway gang, through the story of lifting and packing sleepers of all things.

Reminds me of the good old days, digging out a few chain of cyclic top by hand, carrying the heavy bags of chipping down the track and jacking the track up to pack it all level. Hang on, "good"? I meant "terrible".
 

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Jack Penate - Torn on the Platform :)

Beat me too it, lol :) I wonder where he's off too when he sings "train leaves at 2, platform 3 Waterloo" then later comes with "trapped for three hours until I get there."

One more from me:

Home Now - No Doubt - uses a snippet from some Tube announcements which I think have been recorded on a Victoria Line service as they go "Victoria, change at Victoria, for the Victoria line, Suburban and Mainline Services." Overlaps with the sound of a train departing and screeching around a corner.

I used to like Midnight Train to Georgia but ever since that dodgy Southern advert...
 

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Destination Unknown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6B0F6edMy8

Reminds me of being sat on the Calder Valley with a yet another complicated route being planned and TPE Control ringing up to ask if driver and I sign diversion number 11 they've come up with ....no.
 

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I forgot 'Theme From S'Express' a class 56(?) on the cover and an HST at the end of the tune, 'Slow Train To Dawn' by The The with a video filmed on the Bluebell (?), and also, as mentioned in the forum sig. of our very own CarterUSM '24 Minutes From Tulse Hill'
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An unusual song I stumbled across by Ry Cooder is "Tamp 'em up solid". A presumably old American railroad workmans song about the graft of the railway gang, through the story of lifting and packing sleepers of all things.
Thinking about it, 'Wichita Lineman' could be interpreted as something similar about OHLE :D
 
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Don't think it has a name but this is by far the best railway themed song.
"SNCF musique OFFICIELLE" seems to be the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSfOTsXYNY

And not for it's musical content but because it inspired my electro acoustic compositional work this year. Pierre Schaeffer - Etude aux chemins de fer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA

To balance this out there is a music video for a piece filmed at Lockwood Station near Huddersfield that's good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sfrsZsjFU
 

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There's also Kadoc "The Nighttrain"
You've reminded me that this was an often-recorded American song (called "NightTrain") which I think began with Jonny Hodges in the 1940's and re-recorded many times since then. One was by James Brown (aka The King of Soul!) probably around 1961-64. That was the version whose samples were used by Kadoc.
 

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Ghost train by Madness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etxd0z5TfiA

A straw headed woman, and a barrel chested man,
A pocket full of posies with a hat brim full of sand,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,

A dog chasing the tumbleweeds, across the sandy floor,
That drift along the platform, through the ticket office door,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,

But don't tell me there's nothing coming, you don't fool me,
I hear the ghost train rumbling along the tracks - set them free,
And I hear them,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white don't try to hide,

The station master's writing with a piece of orange chalk,
A hundred cancellations, still no one wants to walk,
Keep the hungry children from the skeletons in the back,
Paid to keep an eye out for the gipsy caravan,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,

I hear the ghost train rumbling along the tracks - set them free,
And I hear them,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white (don't try),
It's black and white (don't try),
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
And I hear them,
It's black and white don't try to hide,
It's black and white don't try to hide...
 
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