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Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington)
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: MoorleyMan Date: 03 May 20 - 06:01 PM If someone would care to post those extra verses mentioned, i'm sure Stanley would be "chuffed"! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 May 20 - 05:23 PM I once took a data tape from a company that was closing. It was the last backup from Bacup... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Starship Date: 03 May 20 - 03:55 PM Is the official title 'Last Train' or 'Last Train from Bacup'? (Correction by Raggytash.) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Starship Date: 03 May 20 - 03:52 PM LOL. I pooched that one. Thanks, Raggytash. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Raggytash Date: 03 May 20 - 03:46 PM Bacup. Starship, Bacup. Bonny little place. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 May 20 - 03:40 PM Invershin is a request stop. on the Highland Line |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Starship Date: 03 May 20 - 02:58 PM https://songsfromtheageofsteam.uk/consequences-of-beeching/359-bar213 Is the official title 'Last Train' or 'Last Train from Bakup'? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Newport Boy Date: 03 May 20 - 02:24 PM If you wanted to bowrd the train at a Halt, you held your hand out - same as a bus. These were not Intercity 125s! It still happens, although they call them request stops now. Gowerton, between Llanelli & Swansea, is one example and there are a number of others on the Heart of Wales line - a great treat if you've not yet experienced it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 May 20 - 05:18 AM I could be wrong but I think a 'Halt' as in Measurements Halt was so called because, unlike a station, the train only stopped there when required. If someone wanted to get off there, the guard let the driver know. I don't know what they did if someone wanted to get on. Did it need to be signalled by someone? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 03 May 20 - 05:08 AM There are a couple of extra verses out there added by different people. Mike Nelson of Lancaster has written one about the Electric line through the Woodhead tunnel. My wife Anne has written one about the preservation of part of the Bacup line, now the East Lancashire Railway, bringing events up to date. If this trend continues the song will become so long that only dedicated railway enthusiasts will listen all the way through:) Robin |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Starship Date: 03 May 20 - 04:52 AM https://www.mixcloud.com/boolong/lost-days-of-steam-radio-documentary/ Here's the radio documentary. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,henryp Date: 03 May 20 - 03:32 AM Measurements Halt railway station was opened on 18 July 1932 as part of the former London and North Western Railway route from Oldham to Delph. The station closed on 2 May 1955, when the Delph Donkey passenger train service to Delph via Greenfield was withdrawn. It served Measurements Factory and only one train in each direction called at the station per day. The track was lifted in 1964 to turn the line between Oldham and Grotton into a cycle/walk way. The line between Moorgate and Delph became the Delph Donkey Trail footpath and bridleway, on which the halts at Dobcross and Measurements are now marked by replica station nameboards. The train called at Oldham Glodwick Street too. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Ross Campbell Date: 02 May 20 - 10:07 PM "a 4-6-0 getting up steam" (not 460!) "Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, 4-6-0 represents the configuration of four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the absence of trailing wheels." (Wikipedia) Ross
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Boo Date: 06 Sep 14 - 08:54 AM D G and A. PS.. It's Heywood not Haywood, and bales not bails. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Dave Dunkerley Date: 29 Oct 10 - 05:02 PM Heard this at local Folk Club a couple of weeks ago. Singers diction wasn't brilliant until I heard the words Measurements Halt! My dad, (as you see, the Dunkerley name is local)used to talk of Measurements as the stop he got off for J.P.Hall's, manufacturers of electric motors. We're talking 1929, 1930!He was brought up in Glodwick (who'd have thought it today!). Presumably caught the train from Mumps out to Measurements. The singer said he used Pachibelli's Cannon as the tune. Thought you might be interested Dave Dunkerley, Leconfield Road, Loughborough, Leics. LE113SQ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 23 Oct 09 - 11:39 AM I would ask him on Saturday night, Gazza but I am as likely to fall over in a Guinness induced slumber! If you are near the White Lion, Swinton, Manchester, come and ask him yourself or try getting in touch with hime via his website. Hope this helps Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Gazza2 Date: 23 Oct 09 - 11:08 AM refresh!! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,Gazza2 Date: 22 Oct 09 - 11:57 AM refresh |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Stanley Accrington) From: GUEST,gazza2 Date: 21 Oct 09 - 12:34 AM Any suggestions on chords for Last Train? Stanley's techniques baffles me when he plays it! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Goulder) From: Stewie Date: 15 Jun 09 - 04:07 AM My apologies, Joe, for once again failing to notice that my weekly Norton cleanup had swallowed my cookie. The last sentence in my previous post should begin with 'It'. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Goulder) From: GUEST Date: 15 Jun 09 - 04:01 AM Mark, thanks for that. My apologies for getting the attribution wrong. I should have read the note in the booklet more carefully. As almost all of the songs on the album are by Goulder with 'The Railway Songs of Dave Goulder' as subtitle, I made an erroneous assumption. I would be good if a Mudelf made the necessary correction if it gets from the forum to the DT. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Last Train (Goulder) From: Mark Dowding Date: 15 Jun 09 - 03:17 AM "Last Train" was written by Stanley Accrington who, in his other life, was the Station Manager at Rochdale in Lancashire. He wrote it after listening to stories from the old railwaymen that he worked with. If I can give a quick plug to a documentary called "The Lost Days of Steam" which will soon be up on The Music Well site. Chris Harvey Pollington and myself are both interested in railways in one capacity or another and we decided to produce a programme featuring the memories of retired and still working railwaymen giving their thoughts on the state of the railway as they see it. Dave Goulder and Stanley Accrington are two of the people we interviewed along with people that both of us know or were introduced to along the way. As well as the interviews, the programme features songs written by Dave Goulder, Stanley Accrington, Cyril Tawney, Flanders and Swann and one of our interviewees Paul McKenzie who has written a few songs about his time on the railway. I'll let you know when it's online. Cheers Mark |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LAST TRAIN (Stanley Accrington) From: Stewie Date: 14 Jun 09 - 09:30 PM LAST TRAIN (Stanley Accrington) I can close my eyes sometimes and still smell the smoke As old Fred the porter slams doors There's a glance at the clock and a nod to the guard And the train is in motion once more Down the Rossendale Valley on a sultry warm day The clanking of wheels echoes on But it's all in my mind, when I wake up I find That the last train from Bacup is gone I can stand in the car park, remembering old tales Of a station that's long since pulled down Of fly-shunted wagons that ran off the rails Ending up in the centre of town Now the juggernauts carry what's left of the trade With the cotton bails piled high upon And where I worked with me mates is now a housing estate And the last train from Royton is gone And at three in the morning when I used to sign on I lie awake half in a dream I'm a guard on a special that's bound for the coast With a 4-6-0 getting up steam We've got packages for printers and pigeons to release Spare seats after Haywood not one Now they jump on a plane for a fortnight in Spain The last train to Fleetwood is gone And at Measurements Halt the track has been lifted The platform is all overgrown There's a willow and scrub where the Delph Donkey ran And the valley has claimed back its own In the Saddleworth Hills on a crisp autumn day A plume of smoke still lingers on But I'm dreaming out loud, sure it's only a cloud The last train for Dobcross has gone Down the Rossendale Valley on a sultry warm day The clanking of wheels echoes on But it's all in my mind, when I wake up I find That the last train from Bacup has gone Source: transcription from Dave Goulder 'The Golden Days of Steam' --Stewie. |
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