| 词条 | Slow Train | |||||||
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| name = Slow Train | cover = File:Flanders and Swann At the Drop of a Hat Broadway 2.JPG | alt = Photo of Flanders and Swann singing at the piano | caption = Writers Flanders and Swann | type = song | artist = Flanders and Swann | album = | EP = | written = 1963 | published = | released = | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = List song; Train song | length = | label = | writer = | composer = Michael Flanders | lyricist = Donald Swann | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = | next_title = | next_year = | prev_track = | track_no = | next_track = }}"Slow Train" is a song by the British duo Flanders and Swann, written in July 1963.[1] It laments the closure of railway stations and lines brought about by the Beeching cuts in the 1960s, and also the passing of a way of life.[2] Lyrics"Slow Train" takes the form of an elegiac list song of railway stations which has been likened to a litany.[2] Its evocation of quiet, rural stations is highly romanticised and uses imagery such as the presence of a station cat or milk churns on a platform to illustrate a "less hurried way of life" that is about to vanish:[3] {{quote|At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street. The strength of "Slow Train" is considered to lie in its list of "achingly bucolic" names of rural halts. The nostalgically poetic tone of Swann's lyrics has been likened to Edward Thomas's 1914 poem, "Adlestrop", which wistfully evokes a fleeting scene of Adlestrop railway station in Gloucestershire.[4] Although most of the stations mentioned in the song were earmarked for closure under the Beeching Axe, a number of the stations were spared closure: Chester-le-Street, Formby, Ambergate and Arram all remain open, and Gorton and Openshaw also survives, now called Gorton. Some lines referred to in the song have since been re-opened, notably Chorlton-cum-Hardy which closed in January 1967, but re-opened in July 2011 as Chorlton Metrolink station. Selby and Goole were not threatened by Beeching, though the line from Selby to Goole mentioned in the song was closed to passengers. The other line mentioned, from St Erth to St Ives{{refn|group=note|name=StIves|While the Cornish St Ives was the one to which Flanders is referring, St Ives, Cambridgeshire on the Great Eastern Railway between Cambridge and Huntingdon was closed by Beeching.}} was reprieved, and both stations remain open. Michael Flanders' delivery of the lyrics seems to imply that Formby Four Crosses and Armley Moor Arram were station names, but in both cases he combined two consecutive names from an alphabetical list of stations. It has been suggested that he took the names of the stations from The Guardian, explaining at least some of the discrepancies between the names in the songs and the names of the stations.[5]Other versionsIn 2004, Canadian classical quartet Quartetto Gelato released a themed album called Quartetto Gelato Travels the Orient Express, celebrating the original journey of Orient Express and featuring music from London to Istanbul. The album begins with a rendition of "Slow Train", with the final lines changed to reflect the route of the Orient Express. A version of "The Slow Train" by the King's Singers is on electronica duo Lemon Jelly's track "'76 aka The Slow Train", combined with a cover of the Albert Hammond song "I'm a Train" also performed by the King's Singers. A live version by Stackridge was included in its 2009 DVD 4x4. Michael Williams' book "On the Slow Train" takes its name from the song. It celebrates 12 of the most beautiful and historic journeys in Britain that were saved from the Beeching axe, including famous routes such as the Settle-Carlisle line and less well-known pleasures, such as the four-hour Preston to Carlisle route along the remote Cumbrian coastline.[6] English folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner included a version of the song on his 2011 compilation album, The Second Three Years. List of stations referred to in the lyricsWhere appropriate, the correct name of the station is shown in brackets.
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Notes1. ^{{cite web |title=The musical slow train |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2008/10/03/kings_singers_beeching_feature.shtml |publisher=BBC Cambridgeshire |accessdate=6 June 2018 |language=en-gb |date=3 October 2008}} 2. ^{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Michael |title=On the Slow Train Again |date=2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9781409051244 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A0JAld75I84C&lpg=PA1&dq=Slow%20Train%20Flanders%20and%20Swann%20litany&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=5 June 2018 |language=en|page=1}} 3. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Michael |title=On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys |date=2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9781848092082 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JwYUWU8AvVUC&lpg=PP1&dq=Slow%20Train%20Flanders%20and%20Swann&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=5 June 2018 |language=en}} 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Bray |first1=Christopher |title=1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born |date=2014 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780857202796 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8XwyAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT80&dq=Slow%20Train%20Flanders%20and%20Swann&pg=PT80#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=5 June 2018 |language=en}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.badsey.net/will/station_rev.htm|title=Littleton and Badsey Station (Revisited)|date=21 January 2003|accessdate=3 December 2009}} 6. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/michael-williams-so-much-pain-in-our-love-of-the-train-1934744.html | title=The Independent, April 3, 2010. | accessdate=14 Feb 2011 | location=London | date=3 April 2010}} 7. ^Pre-Grouping Atlas, page 15 8. ^Pre-Grouping Atlas, page 16 9. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/long_stanton/|title=Disused Stations site record: Long Stanton|author=Nick Catford|date=20 April 2010|accessdate=16 December 2011}} 10. ^{{Cite book|title=Lost Railways of North & East Yorkshire|first=Gordon|last=Suggitt|publisher=Countryside Books|chapter=Chapter 11: Around Selby|pages=124–126}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/opening-rail-line-costly/article-1322613-detail/article.html |title=Re-opening rail line 'too costly' |publisher=Leicester Mercury |date=2009-09-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091014011502/http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/opening-rail-line-costly/article-1322613-detail/article.html |archivedate=14 October 2009 |df=dmy-all }} References{{reflist}}Bibliography
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