The Slow Train - Frank Turner

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…