Flanders & Swann Slow Train
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street We won’t be meeting again On the slow train.
I’ll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw At Long Stanton I’ll stand well clear of the doors no more No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town. I won’t be going again On the slow train. On the Main Line and the Goods Siding The grass grows high At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside And Trouble House Halt. The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay. No one departs, no one arrives From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives. They’ve all passed out of our lives On the slow train On the slow train. Cockermouth for Buttermere On the slow train Armley Moor Arram … Pye Hill and Somercotes On the slow train Windmill End.
