The Slow Train

Millers Dale for Tideswell
Kirby Muxloe
Mow Cop and Scholar Green
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortiehow
On the slow train from Midsummer Norton and Mumby Row
No churns, no porter
No cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy and 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 Thornby 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 Troublehouse Halt
The sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate
No passenger waits on Chittening platform of Cheslyn Hay
No-one departs, no-one arrives
From Selby to Goole
From St. Erth to St. Ives
They all passed out of our lives
On the slow train
On the slow train
Cockermouth for Buttermere
On the slow train
Armly Moor Arram
Pye Hill and Somercotes
On the slow train
Windmill End…