Trivia - Best Songs with Rail Content

[matacaster]

Cream - White Room

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver - When the train comes

Chatanooga Choo Choo

I suspect there may be more!

 

[eastwestdivide]

Every blues song ever written?

 

[ess]

Divine Comedy - National Express
(OK not quite trains)

 

[GWRjake]

John Hassall & The April Rainers - "Intercity 125" is incredible!

 

[richard1976]

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

 

[curtly]

Down in the tube station at midnight - the jam.

 

[roversfan2001]

Don't know how to embed video but Small Bones by Courteeners has a line about Virgin Pendolinos, and Yesterday, Today and Probably Tomorrow by the same band features some general background noise from Euston/Piccadilly towards the end, along with a line about meeting a girl off a train.

 

[Kyle1]

Does Train in Vain by The Clash count? It's got train in the title.

 

[EM2]

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - '24 Minutes From Tulse Hill'

 

[U-Bahnfreund]

Funmoments.nl’s remix of NS is quite fun:

Also, these two German songs:
Sonderzug nach Pankow (special service to Pankow) by Udo Lindenberg

Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo (there is a train to nowhere) by Christian Anders

 

[AlexNL]

Does Dutch singer-songwriter Guus Meeuwis' "Per Spoor" count? Or is this too much?

(Video of Guus Meeuwis singing about the journey to see his girlfriend, with a lot of footage shot on Dutch trains and platforms in the mid-90's)

Translated lyrics: click here

 

[duffield]

Gordon Lightfoot's classic 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy'

 

[buddysfender]

Third Rail by Squeeze

 

[Essan]

Locomotive Breath

 

[Essan]

Land of Hope and Dreams

 

[iantherev]

Genesis - driving the last spike (about the building of the S&C).

 

[Essan]

And a couple more from Ian Anderson:

Trains

and for the railway modeller (and those who like Fray Bentos pies, always a winner....) Shunt and Shuffle

 

[beeza1]

City Of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore by Michelle Shocked, (before she lost her marbles!)

 

[Essan]

Whilst it doesn't specifically reference trains, Runrig's Going Home is all about travelling back to Skye on the West Highland Line and one of my all time fav songs

 

[duffield]

Genesis - driving the last spike (about the building of the S&C).

There's lots of info about this song online, but none of it specifically mentions the S&C, I'd be interested to know where that's come from.

 

[Essan]

For heavy metal and Princess class loco fans .....

 

[curtly]

Don't know how to embed video but Small Bones by Courteeners has a line about Virgin Pendolinos, and Yesterday, Today and Probably Tomorrow by the same band features some general background noise from Euston/Piccadilly towards the end, along with a line about meeting a girl off a train.

My man a fellow courteeners song!

The cash machine by platform 11 at Piccadilly is also mentioned in smiths disco, as are the ladies of the night!

 

[EM2]

The The - 'Slow Train To Dawn'.
Video filmed on the Bluebell:

 

[Essan]

Probably the only song ever written about waiting for a train on Preston platform ....

 

[iantherev]

There's lots of info about this song online, but none of it specifically mentions the S&C, I'd be interested to know where that's come from.

I think it was on the sleeve notes but I’ll need to dig the cassette out to look.

 

[Busaholic]

Rock Island Line.
Just on the title, and the fact it's by Bob Dylan, It Takes A lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.

 

[pdeaves]

Every blues song ever written?

and most country ones!
XTC's "The Meeting Place" opens with the Swindon works hooter.

 

[fergusjbend]

Rule Britannia (originally 'Rule 7P6F').

 

[tigerroar]

 

[Hadders]

Time Flies by When I'm the Driver of a Train from the iconic Childrens TV programme Chigley