1) The Slow Train - Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

Available on audio CD from EMI. Detailed by the Flanders and Swann website. Online version on Youtube.

Lyrics feature the following stations:

Station	Route	Opened	Closed	Notes
Miller's Dale	Midland Railway route from Ambergate to Buxton	1863	1967	Provided a through line between Derby and Manchester. Now on the Monsal Trail between Matlock and Buxton.
Kirby Muxloe	Midland Railway route from Leicester to Burton-on-Trent	1859	1964	Line still in place; currently being considered for re-opening.
Mow Cop and Scholar Green	North Staffordshire Railway route between Stoke-on-Trent and Congleton	1848	1964	Part of the West Coast Mainline between London and Manchester.
Blandford Forum	Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway from Bath to Bournemouth	1860	1966
Mortehoe	London and South Western Railway route from Barnstaple to Illfracombe	1874	1970	Some distance from Mortehoe; also known as Mortehoe and Woolacombe.
Midsomer Norton	Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway from Bath to Bournemouth	1874	1966	Home of the Somerset and Dorset Railway Heritage Trust.
Mumby Road	Great Northern Railway route from Willoughby to Maplethorpe (a branch off the Peterborough to Grimsby line)	1886	1970	A particularly obscure bit of railway.
Chorlton-cum-Hardy	Cheshire Lines Committee route from Manchester to Stockport	1880	1967	Railway remained open for freight until 1980. Not to be confused with still-open section of the West Coast Mainline. To be reopened as part of a Manchester Metrolink extension.
Chester-le-Street	North Eastern Railway route from Durham to Newcastle	1868	N/A	Closure permission refused; now a successful station staffed by Chester-le-Track on behalf of operator Northern Rail.
Littleton and Badsey	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway route from Oxford to Worcester	1853	1966	Referred to in the song as "Littleton Badsey". Unlikely to re-open, but the still-open railway it was on is undergoing a renaissance.
Openshaw	Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway route from Manchester to Glossup	1842	N/A	Part of the former Woodhead route from Sheffield to Manchester. Originally called Gorton; was Gorton and Openshaw when song was written; now returned to Gorton.
Long Stanton	Cambridge and Huntington Railway route from Cambridge to St. Ives (Cambridgeshire)	1847	1970	Station and track remained intact until 2007, when the track was lifted and the station demolished to make way for a guided busway between Cambridge and St. Ives.
Formby	Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway route from Liverpool to Southport	1848	N/A	Closure permission refused; now part of the Merseyrail network.
Four Crosses	Cambrian Railway route from Oswestry to Welshpool	1860	1965	Song suggests that this and Formby are one station name.
Dunstable Town	Great Northern Railway route from Hatfield to Dunstable Town	1858	1965	In use by freight traffic until 1990; now earmarked for a guided busway.
Dogdyke	Great Northern Railway route from Boston to Lincoln	1848	1963
Tumby Woodside	Great Northern Railway route from Woodhall Spa to the East Lincolnshire Railway	1913	1970	The Great Northern had an extensive network serving very few people in Lincolnshire.
Trouble House Halt	Great Western Railway route from Kemble to Tetbury	1959	1964	The actual railway had opened in 1889. The halt was named after the pub that it was built to serve.
Audlem	Great Western Railway route from Market Drayton to Nantwich	1863	1963	The railway was just over a month short of its centenary at time of closure
Ambergate	Midland Railway junction for trains from London via Derby to Manchester or Leeds	1840	N/A	Although one of the six platforms (arranged around the triangular junction) is still open the station has lost most of its importance, now only being served by trains bound for Matlock.
Chittening	Great Western Railway route from Filton to Avonmouth	1917	1964	The railway itself had opened some time previously and today remains open to freight traffic.
Cheslyn Hay	London and North Western Railway route from Walsall to Rugeley Town	1870	1965	Line remained intact and later re-opened to passenger traffic. Cheslyn Hay remains shut. Actually called Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay.
	Selby to Goole	1910	1964	Selby and Goole both remain open; they are just no longer linked by rail.
	St. Erth to St. Ives (Cornwall)	1877	N/A	Closure permission refused; railway is now very successful for carrying tourists to seaside St. Ives. St. Erth is Britain's farthest west junction. This was the last line to be built to broad gauge.
Cockermouth	End of Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway route. Line west continued to Cumbrian Coast line.	1864	1966	Penrith to Keswick survived until 1972. Keswick to Cockermouth is now the A66. Re-opening proposals are being sat on.
Armley Moor	Great Northern Railway route between Leeds and Bramley.	1854	1966	Leeds to Bramley line is still open as the Caldervale Line.
Arram	North Eastern Railway route between Hull and Scarborough.	1853	N/A	Survived Beeching; now advertised as the Yorkshire Coast Line.
Pye Hill and Somercoates	Great Northern Railway route between Kimberley and Pinxton	1875	1963
Windmill End	Great Western Railway route between Blower's Green and Old Hill in the Black Country.	1874	1964	One of a string of stations on what was also known as the "Bumble Hole Line". It ran entirely through industrial landscape yet carried virtually no passengers.