Songs that you associate with public transport.

[BluePenguin]

Sound Of The Underground by Girls Aloud

 

[Dai Corner]

Underground, Overground, Wombling Free,
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we.

 

[117305]

Ray Martell - She Caught The Train

 

[whhistle]

The Jam - Going Underground

Or more accurately that version where someone changed the words.

 

[eastdyke]

One for when the screens are looking like the job is about to stop:
Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group

And a whole album (but not for everyone on account of content):
Waterloo to Anywhere - Dirty Pretty Things

 

[Deerfold]

The Jam - Going Underground

For the 3rd time...

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Waiting for the Bus by Violent Femmes.

Not their best work, but on topic at least!

 

[lyndhurst25]

Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat. Only because of the video - Jimmy Somerville gets to ride on a Class 210 DEMU!

 

[Dai Corner]

For the 3rd time...

Must be the Circle Line if it keeps coming round!

 

[lyndhurst25]

Last train to London Electric Light Orchestra.

Along with "Across the border", featured in this 1970s Midland Mainline cab ride video...

 

[DavidGrain]

If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree

Now the whole damned bus is cheerin'
And I can't believe I see
A hundred yellow ribbons round the ole oak tree

Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree. Tony Orlando.

 

[djpontrack]

Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat. Only because of the video - Jimmy Somerville gets to ride on a Class 210 DEMU!

That's an excellent video, especially the bit where the first generation dmu is crossing from one line to another near Paddington.

 

[47403]

May I bring you Carter USM. Plenty references in this song.

 

[DavidGrain]

I have this LP in my collection with many songs about railways.

 

[DavidGrain]

May I bring you Carter USM. Plenty references in this song.

I thought '24 minutes from Tulse Hill' was just a joke play on words mentioned by a presenter on the radio many years ago. I did not know it had been incorporated into a song.

 

[Bevan Price]

Quite a few here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs#

And that list is far from complete, I think, but my internet connection is currently too slow to find any more. (Is that because half the world is on line due to the World Cup?)
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[ChiefPlanner]

"The Passenger" ..Iggy Pop ?

 

[Bromley boy]

The Day We Caught The Train, by Ocean Colour Scene (surprised that one hasn’t been mentioned yet).

A more esoteric one of mine is Driver 8, by REM (from one of their early albums “Fables of the Reconstruction”)

“And the train conductor says take a break, Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break, we’ve been on this shift too long...”

Music to my ears, literally!

 

[EM2]

'King's Cross' by The Pet Shop Boys

 

[EM2]

The whole of the 'Interchange' album by Warm Digits.

 

[Bromley boy]

'King's Cross' by The Pet Shop Boys

Congratulations on a most excellent choice - filmed at the same railway my gaslight avatar was taken at...

You can’t go wrong with the Pet Shop Boys, or with the Bluebell Railway .

 

[Zamracene749]

'Breaking Away' by Donald Fagen. I don't think it's possible to take the Amsterdam ferry from the Tyne without that song jumping into my head. 'Downbound Train' - Springsteen, and on an even darker note 'Local boy in the photograph' by Stereophonics. 'Down in the Tube station at midnight' , 'Trans Europe Express', 'Smalltown Boy' and 'national express' are of course the top ones that have already been mentioned! Oh and 'Relax' by Leon Redbone- think this was used to advertise GNER way back when.....

 

[Deerfold]

Oh and 'Relax' by Leon Redbone- think this was used to advertise GNER way back when.....

I should have remembered that one - I have the promotional CD somewhere.

Then there's one of my other half's favourite bands.

 

[Zamracene749]

I really rather like that FM link Deerfold, it's '80s tastic

 

[Zamracene749]

I just remembered this one too- the haunting voice of Emmylou Harris with classic country guitars. Heaven!

 

[WAB]

Mine is a song which was one of the first videos I ever saw on YouTube. I cannot find it now, but I believe it was entitled "Girl on a train.wmv" or similar, with the video showing a woman on a mark I or II coach. The lyrics went something like "So why don't you hold me / Just like you used to / Somebody numb this burning pain".

 

[EM2]

I'm surprised that 'Downtown Train' by Tom Waits and later Rod Stewart hasn't been mentioned.
One line of this song was reworded by an ex-colleague as an homage to FCC (as it was then) to 'The downstairs trains are full, full of all those Bedford girls', FCC of course operating from the subsurface platforms at St Pancras.

 

[43021HST]

As a Youtube comment puts it, the song is history of UKs rail from 1993 to present day.

I quote some lyrics for those who can't who can't bear to listen:

"But it’s utter crime that these private companies have their greasy paws on our historic railways
Northern Rail appeal to the more seasoned, bottom set maths, jobsworth
Not to tail them all under the same brush
Heaven forbid"

"If you’ve noticed anything suspicious, then please report it to a member of this train crew”
It is bizarre to know how the tannoy pattern varies depending wholly on how much the conductor enjoys the sound of their own voice
Clearly a highlight for the blissfully unaware
Who loves to think he is providing much needed local knowledge and humour
I don’t have time to be hanging around Huddersfield station’s lovely little café
I’m on this train because I’ve got actual places to be"

 

[Groningen]

Reminds somewhat to this thread were we talk (typed) about trains.

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-best-songs-with-rail-content.161934/#post-3376706

 

[DarloRich]

Folsom Prison Blues: I hear the train acomin, its rollin round the bend......