[Closed] Songs with train stations in the lyrics

No Sheep 'Til Buxton

Whippin' Piccadilly by Gomez.

Mornington Crescent by Belle and Sebastian.

I'm sure the HMHB back catalogue will contain many more train related tunes.

Last Train to Transcentral by the KLF.

What do you mean that's not a real station?

Mile End by Pulp.

Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville band

Last Train to Transcentral by the KLF.

ALL ABOARD, ALL ABOARD, WOOAAAHHHHH!

No Sleep till Hammersmith by Merterhead

"Lee" by Tenacious D

I'd say "[b]Angel[/b] of Harlem" by U2 but I ****ing hate U2

The Chieftans recorded "The Pride of Pimlico"

OK, so I believe they were writing it about a pub, but it's got a tube station in the name. A station that is unique in that it contains none of the letters in the word "badger".

Thought so.

24 Minutes From Tulse Hill - Carter USM

Last train to Clarksville. (ignores xenophobic instructions from OP).

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Carter's Lean on Me mentioned the Hammersmith and City line, does that count?

The entire back catalogue of All Saints.

And a cracker....

Catatonia Londinium was made for this question:

"Euston, paddington train station please..."

Also another CarterUSM: the [s]fairytale of[/s] Only living boy in New Cross

The Clash did a little ditty about Hammersmith (Palais)

The Kinks/Fall - Victoria

Robyn Hitchcock - I often dream of trains

(She's in) Broadstairs - HMHB.
For What Is Chatteris? - HMHB. (Also Ely and St Ives)
27 yards of dental floss - HMHB. (Winchester)
Lord Hereford's Knob - HMHB. (Hebden Bridge)
Bob Wilson, Anchorman - HMHB. (Dundalk)

And many, many more....

Flanders & Swann, Slow Train.

House!

Last train tae Glasga Central by Billy Connolly

A little known classic by Mr Raymond Froggatt

A station that is unique in that it contains none of the letters in the word "badger".

In similar vain - St John's Wood is the only station to contain none of the letters from the word "mackerel".

Victoria , Kinks.

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I'm not in Hove;

Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

Would Whitney Euston songs count?

Clover over Dover - Blur

Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street

Going Underground (why a station when you can have all of them?) - the Jam

If we're doing The Jam then 'Down in the Tube Station' ?

Eton Rifles. Is there a station in Eton?

Windsor and Eton I think.

got the HMHB "Joy Division Oven Gloves" stuck in head now (and can't find any station names in there, unless there's a station called Quantocks).

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?

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

Warwick Avenue

(Manchester) Piccadilly Palare

Piccadilly works because of the tube station as well.

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

Beg, steal or Borough

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

That's Angel[b]s[/b]

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

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

White Man in Hammersmith Palais, the Clash

Public Service Broadcasting to the rescue

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

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

Waverley Steps - Roddy Woomble

Homeward Bound

[I]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.[/I]

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?

Beach Boys - Help Me, [u]Rhonda[/u] -
The Clash - [u]Broadway[/u]
The Feeling - Blue [u]Piccadilly[/u]
Pulp - [u]PTA[/u] [i] (Port Talbot Parkway)[/i]
Snow Patrol - Take Back the [u]City[/u]

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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?

[i]Rudy[/i], 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".

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).