The following parody is based on the N. Wales Bangor.
Nigel

RIDING DOWN FROM BANGOR

Riding down from Bangor isn't, kindly note
Always quite as pleasant as the poet wrote
In a third class carriage with a third class smell,
Sat a student fellow, thought the journey hell.

Carriage rather crowded, 13 on each side
Into beastly station horrid train did glide
Eight repellent children got in rather quick
Followed by another who immediately was sick.

Stopping at each station in between them too
Buffet car had vanished left behind at Crewe
Female with bronchitis keeps the window shut
Atmosphere resembles Black Hole of Calcut.

On through dreary country chugs that weary train
Children writing rude words on the window pane
Enter village maiden innocent and pure
Also lots of land-girls, smelling of manure.

Seven hours in tunnel black as Egypt's night
Land-girls scream and giggle, children yell with fright
Cut into the daylight train at last appears
Blushing village maidens boxes student's ears.

Sordid court case follows, story is unfurled
Details all reported in News of the World
Moral a la Belloc's "Cautionary Tales":
When riding down from Bangor, don't go off the rails.

Notes: found in the "Bangor Scout & Guide Club" songbook, from the University college of North Wales. (Book printed March 1970)

NP