Rock Songs about Trains - How many can you think of?

[JohnChell]

I was just wondering how many rock songs, album titles, album covers, etc, we could come up with which relate to trains.

Here are a few suggestions to get us started....

Particularly poignant this week, the cover from Motorheads 1986 album, Orgasmatron, which includes the track  "Ridin' with the Driver" 



then there is Saxons "Princess of the night"



and I've always liked the cover artwork for Diamond Heads "Am I Evil"



or what about

Cinderella "Heartbreak Station"



or Soul Asylum "Runaway Train"



and finally for my suggestions Jethro Tull "Locomotive Breath"



There must be loads more out there, so what are your suggestions?

[Agrippa]

There's " Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" by The Move , (light rail system).

"Canadian Pacific " by George Hamilton IV though this is a country song.

[jpendle]

Long Train Running by the Doobie brothers and Slow Train Coming by Bob Dylan.

John P

[JBQFC]

not a song about a train but Queens Breakthru uses a steam train in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22oGInO-uo

[port perran]

Last Train to London - ELO
Southern Pacific - Neil Young
Marrakesh Express - Crosby Stills Nash & Young

I'm sure there are others as well.

[Ditape]

Last train to clarksville -the monkies

[mickeyflinn]

Spanish Train by Chris De Burgh
Downtown Train by Bruce Springsteen
Homebound Train by Bon Jovi
Mystery Train by Bon Jovi
Rock 'N' Roll Train by AC/DC
Honky Tonk Train Blues by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Little Boy Named Train by Green Day
Long Train Running by The Doobie Brothers
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum
Trains And Winter Rains by Enya (apt song with the current weather!!)
Midnight Train by The Men They Couldn't Hang
Midnight Train by Bryan Ferry

And don't forget the rock band from San Francisco - Train

[Cooper]

She Caught The Katy is a blues classic, first brought to my attention by The Blues Brothers. Plenty more to be had amongst the Blues I suspect.

[Chetcombe]

Two from The Cure:

Jumping someone else's train
Another journey by train  - admittedly a rather obscure B side

The video for the former is worth a look - it is a speeded up London to Brighton cab view


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oWf07FRCw

[themadhippy]

Think the who were rail fans wot with the 5:15,and the precursor to tommy,a quick one.Theres also cream with train time,and white room mentions platform tickets and restless diesels.Even the clash had a go with train in vain

[mickeyflinn]

There's also Locomotion by OMD, and we mustn't forget The Locomotion (not Kylie's version) by Grand Funk Railroad.

[MikeDunn]

Someone already chimed in (get it  ) with one ELO song ... how about "Across the Border" (has railway bells ringing in the intro & refers to waiting @ the station, the 9:05, & the southbound train) ... "Hello, My Old Friend" (has 'High-rise tower blocks with panoramic Views of trains and coal,  Tiehead railway tracks tread faithfully, The gas works to behold'"), and "Train of Gold" of course,

(Strangely enough, despite having both a dockside and an airport lyric, "Night in the City" has no railway station ...)

[Jon898]

City of New Orleans.. recorded by Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson (and also by Steve Goodman, who wrote it)

[Jon898]

Also there's Cream's "The White Room"... more about the station than the actual trains, but there is a mention of "restless diesels".

[scottmitchell74]

Red Sea - Hellbound Train


https://youtu.be/yFmHk1mRxU4

Main Line Riders - Ride the Main Line


https://youtu.be/00JCK8i9IiU