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

[Mr Sprue]

"End of The Line" An old favorite foot tapper of mine and one that's in my driving compilation! A tribute to Roy also!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA

[JohnChell]

On the basis of all this excellent music I have a suggestion to make. Why not have background music on a PA system at exhibitions, with this playlist accompanying visitors viewing of the layouts? 

[D1042 Western Princess]

Rudy by Supertramp

Might not count but it does mention trains and has recordings of a Paddington platform announcement and a departing Western

ANYTHING with a Western on it counts for me.

[D1042 Western Princess]

My era is somewhat older but we have (in no particular order)

Chattanooga Choo Choo
The Atkinson, Topeka and the Santa Fe
Take the A train

Finally, not necessarily tunes to do with trains, but how about "Tuxedo Junction" and, what I was thinking the day my Class 180 crawled into Paddington with 4 (sic) engines out (leaving just one working  ), and the driver and me praying we got 'greens' because we could never have restarted the train had we been stopped,    "Comin' in on a wing and a prayer".

For those who want the whole story the engines were restarted by our relief crew, and the train conked out completely about 100 yards off the end of the platform when running ECS to Old Oak Common.

[d-a-n]

'Over the points' by Ian Dury and the Blockheads

It's a song from a locomotive's point of view - http://m.nhacso.net/nghe-nhac/over-the-points.VllQVUtb.html

[D1042 Western Princess]

Oh, and I nearly forgot that ever popular John Denver classic song "I'm leaving on a jet train"      


Oh, OK, I'll just get my coat before I go......

[Cooper]

Everything But The Girl's 'Anytown' has the evocative line ' Standing in the driving rain, I can hear the Oldham train' in it, which always brings to mind a DMU on a viaduct disappearing into the gloom for me!

[Jon898]

Did someone already mention "Manic Monday" by the Bangles? :

...Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an airoplane
I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the boss is already there...

[JBQFC]

Roger taylor Queen's drummer Freedom train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SLHg2DmbY

[Komata]

One absolutely obscure (and totally pointless)  song that no-one has so far mentioned is 'New Delhi Freight Train' recorded by both Little Feat and others . 

The opening few lines of the single verse contains the following immortal words:

'Some people think that I must be crazy
But my real name is just Jesse James
An I left them half-crocked, hard-knocks of black rock county
Just to ride on that New Delhi Train
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my love behind...'

AFAIK, New Delhi is in India, while Jesse James was an American who never went beyond the shores of the USA, so make of the words as you will.  Perhaps Terry Allen (the composer) was 'geographically challenged...?' 

[jpendle]

Not exactly rock, but how about "Life flies by when you're the driver of a train" from Chigley.

John P

[Trainfish]

Not sure about that one John but there is "Time flies by (when you're the driver of a train)" by Half Man Half Biscuit which is on the Back in the DHSS album. I borrowed the album (vinyl and before CDs were around) from someone at work many years ago. I've still got it 

[jpendle]

Correct it is Time flies by.

John P

[trkilliman]

Supertramp...Rudy.

It starts with "Rudy's on a train to nowhere" and mentions a whole load of stations en-route to Bristol Temple Meads over the station tannoy.

Ahhh' Bristol T.M. the place my trainspotting started towards the mid 60s!

[bridgiesimon]

Returning to the Original Post, here are a few 'Rock' additions from the Bridgiesimon collection -

Aerosmith – Train Kept a Rollin
AC/DC – Rock N Roll Train
Megadeth – Train of consequences
Metallica No Leaf Clover
Rush – A Passage to Bankock
Ozzy Osborne – Crazy Train
Guns and Roses – Night Train
REM – Driver 8
Jimmy Hendrix – Hear my train a comin'
Counting Crows – Ghost Train

'Train of Consequences being a particular favourite -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPNyqlVV2e4

Best wishes for 2016

Simon