Random Rubbish

By randomrubbish

They all passed out of our lives..

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,

"Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

The Pencaitland to Saltoun Railway, closed 1965 presumably under the Beeching cuts. It's hard to imagine trains rattling along this quiet spot of East Lothian.

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