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The Railwayman's songbook/filmbook/tv guide/theatre guide

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Once again borrowing from ISIHAC, what songs would a railway worker or enthusiast listen to? What plays, films and TV shows would they watch? What books would they read?

I'll start us off.

SONGS:

Strawberry Hill Forever

Sweet Child o' Minehead Steam Railway - Guns & Rose Hill

Don't Stop at Ealing (Midnight Sleeper Train) - Journey (Planner)

Jailhouse Rock Ferry

Holding out for a Winner Tram


TV/FILM/BOOKS:

Thornton Abbey - with Lord Grantham

Northanger Abbey Wood

And Then There Was Nunhead

Doctor Hooton

The Bourne End Supremacy

Notting Hill (Gate)

One Of Our Tickets Is Missing

James Bond in Goldthorpe-upon-Dearne

Sherborne Holmes
 
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How about a nice bit of Kraftwerk? Trans-Pennine Express. "In Leeds we sit in a late-night McDs, missed connection, TPE". ;)
 
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It's training men.
Traindrops keep falling on my head.
Going undergound.
Hey Mr Porter
Waterloo Sunset.
Long-haired lover from Liverpool Street
I wanna hold your hand-luggage

Unchained luggage trolley melody
When I'm cleaning train windows
Baby you can drive my train
etc etc
 
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Lyrics courtesy of Madonna "Justify my Love"

Making love in a train. Cross Country

Although presumably not in a Voyager toilet!
 
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GatwickDepress said:
How about a nice bit of Kraftwerk? Trans-Pennine Express. "In Leeds we sit in a late-night McDs, missed connection, TPE". ;)
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There's a band called Warm Digits, very heavily influenced by Kraftwerk, that actually have a track called Trans-Pennine Express:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OWqCVQ1dk
And their album 'Interchange' is influenced by the Tyne & Wear Metro.
 
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Voyager, Voyager by Desireless
The Tractor song- Wurzels
Going Underground- The Jam
Geek USA- by the err, Bashing Pumpkins
Stairway to Hebburn- Led Zepp during their Tyneside Metro era
Stand by me- Ben E King in his Cross country trains Voyager era
Jump Around by House of Pain- written on a 144 between Sheffield and Leeds. Allegedly....
 
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On a snowy winters morn ....... White Lines !!

Move Up To The Buffer Baby - Grace Jones

Goin Loco

ICE ICE Baby ... just the German Drivers that one

Don't mess with my Choo Choo
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
You cant touch me I'm part of the Union
 
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19th Breakdown -- Rolling Stones

Light My Fire - Thomas The Tank's Doors.

The loco nomotion - Grand Funk Railroad

Failed Train To Nowhere - versions by Rare Earth & Savoy Brown.

Smoke On The Chimney - Deep Purple.

With A Little Help From My Banking Engine - Joe Cocker

Double Yellow Vision -- Foreigner.

Silver Ticket Machine -- Hawkwind

Railway Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Simon & Garfunkel

Deltic Noise - The Kinks
 
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To quote Barry Cryer himself from a show (but in a railway context this time):

Is This the Way to Aberystwyth?
 
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Busaholic said:
Long-haired lover from Liverpool Street
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Nearer the truth than you realise for someone I knew :oops:

Not even a pun, there is the classic Onion Band song:
Change at Thorpe-le-Soken (for Walton-on-the-Naze).

I'd post a YouTube link but you really don't want to hear it.
 
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Ticket to Ryde (Pierhead or Town not specified)

Staying on the Isle that time forgot:-
(Rock) Island Line - some say the first British rock record, by Lonnie Donegan

Flying Scotsman down to Rio
Paint it Black Stanier
Livery and let die
Norwegian Wood-burning Locomotive
From a jack to a Kings Cross
Everybody must get Eustoned (as Bob Dylan so nearly did sing, as will be proved when the next 110 CD of all his outtakes gets released)
 
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Minilad said:
Lyrics courtesy of Madonna "Justify my Love"

Making love in a train. Cross Country

Although presumably not in a Voyager toilet!
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I think even madonna would agree that's a new low!!

Another song: The Locomotion. Or the Dooby brothers long train running...I avoided the obvious change in lyrics to the latter in conjunction with minilads post to save me getting booted off the forum.

Ooh! The KLF last train to trancecentral is another......
 
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She Loves Euston - The Beatles

Unit Over 500 miles - The Proclaimers

And, from Shakespeare:

Todmorden, and Todmorden, and Todmorden, creeps forward in its petty pacer from day to day - MacBethnal Green

That's pretty much how long it takes to get there! :P

Neither a semaphore nor a Barnet-be - Ham Street
 
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Wichita (Overhead) Lineman - Glen Campbell

Railway to Hull - AC/DC

Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glen Miller & his band?

Travellin' Light (engine) - Cliff Richard & the Shadows

Mansion House Rock - Elvis Presley

Ticket to ride - Beatles

Deltics - Chris Rea

Blockbuster - Sweet

Waterloo - ABBA

Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats

(G.N.E.R) - Village People

Deeper (London) Underground - Jamiroquai
 
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