Is there a station in Eton?

Windsor & Eton Riverside, and Windsor & Eton Central.

Songs that just name places with a train station don’t really count though, as mentioned you’ve got any number of songs with “Angel” in them! Plus virtually any town! Frank Turner mentions Winchester in numerous songs, actually in the context of catching a train in at least one song.

The reason it’s UK only is that worldwide would just be too difficult, and most of us stand a chance. American stations don’t count.

OK, so I believe they were writing it about a pub

Doesn’t have to be ABOUT a railway station, it just has to contain the complete name of the station. Angel of Harlem is a goodun 🙂

I originally said lyrics, but that’s a bit broad.. prehaps title is better which is how people have interpreted it. Of course there are many songs with Angel in but that station’s already been used, as has Winchester, so you need another.

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham (South, Common, North)

‘London’ by the Smiths. Euston station gets a specific mention.

Dover is Dover Priory (thought there used to be Dover Harbour too?), so that one above wouldn’t count.

that one by stiff little fingers

or every other song by St Etienne?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4VdcMXVO_g[/video]

Waiting In Walthamstow-The Cranberries

Billericay Dickie, Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Doesn’t have to be ABOUT a railway station, it just has to contain the complete name of the station.

I’d just like to point out that all three of mine ARE about the station and are therefore superior in every way.

Billy Bragg, A13, Trunk Road to the Sea has quite a few.

It starts down in Wapping
There ain’t no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea,
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend’s the end

Cutting Crewe

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOwHzCHfgA[/video]

Warwick Avenue

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSHEnFNRck[/video]

(Manchester) Piccadilly Palare

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fTR1wSRAeNM[/video]

Piccadilly works because of the tube station as well.

However that whiney self important **** is banned from this thread.

Beg, steal or Borough

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6a_1R3w5i4[/video]

Is that a no to ‘Your Arsenal’, then?

Piccadilly is Piccadilly Circus though 😉

Underground overground wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon…

Robbie Williams really, really likes Angel station

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luwAMFcc2f8&feature=kp[/video]

That’s Angels

Wimbledon counts though. And Shermer75 gets a prize for creativity.

never thought it would happen…

up the junction by squeeze, no?

Steve Reich/Kronos Quartet – Different Trains

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E4Bjt_zVJc[/video]

Return to Brixton – so not only the station but the ticket too 🙂

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mlkW2Ev1KU[/video]

White Man in Hammersmith Palais, the Clash
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnijX0TH-w&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

Guns of Brixton
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcizZebcaU&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

All out of Hove, Air Supply
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWdZEumNRmI&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

Public Service Broadcasting to the rescue
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFJPYi3JXw4[/video]

As the rules seem flexible, how’s about a video in a train station?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enshnZsyXoA[/video]

London Bridge by Fergie.
Perth by Bon Iver
Train to Birmingham by John Hiatt

Waverley Steps – Roddy Woomble

Homeward Bound

It is uncertain exactly where the song was written: in an interview with Paul Zollo for SongTalk Magazine, Art Garfunkel says that Simon wrote the song in a railway station “around Manchester” while in an earlier interview for Playboy Magazine Simon stated that the railway station was in Liverpool. It is likely, however, that it was written at Widnes railway station during a long wait for a train, when traveling back from Widnes, where he had been playing; a commemorative plaque is displayed on the wall of the Liverpool-bound waiting room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeward_Bound_(song)

White City by the Pogues.

And btw the rules are NOT flexible, they are just poorly defined.

Must be a few in this one?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSCrCpyUJ8[/video]

Beach Boys – Help Me, Rhonda –
The Clash – Broadway
The Feeling – Blue Piccadilly
Pulp – PTA (Port Talbot Parkway)
Snow Patrol – Take Back the City

Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays 🙂

Goodge (Street) Technology – Red Guitars?

Morden Love – David Bowie?

Holborn to be Wild – Steppenwolf?

Poison Harrow – ABC?

Seven Sisters are Doin it for Themselves – Eurythmics?

Rudy, by Supertramp. Cue Paddington station announcer:
“The 19.45 train to Bristol Temple Meads will depart from platform three, calling at Reading, Didcot, Swindon, Chippenham, Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads. Passengers for Ramsey, change at Didcot”
There’s eight main-line stations right there.

Hayes of Spades, Motorhead

In similar vain – St John’s Wood is the only station to contain none of the letters from the word “mackerel”.

Whereas Mackerel Junction contains all of the letters from the word mackerel.

Hue and Cry – looking for linda

Sorry Rusty, ‘What is Chatteris’ only one, Ely. Both Chatteris and St Ives are long closed. (Still a great song, especially if you know Chatteris).