Victoria in the gin shop

Subject: Victoria in the gin shop
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 09 Apr 20 - 04:33 AM

I came across a refference to a song with the above refain and can't find it anywhere.

It was written after the GWR broad gauge locomotive Victoria crashed through the buffers at Weymouth and ploughed across the road, coming to rest just short of the hotel opposite.

I assume it was a music hall style ditty.

Anyone know any more about it.

Robin

Subject: RE: Victoria in the gin shop
From: cnd
Date: 09 Apr 20 - 10:42 AM

Sorry, I found nothing besides (this reference") to the song and a few websites which repeated the same line

Subject: RE: Victoria in the gin shop
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 10 Apr 20 - 02:23 PM

' As a tailpiece, there is a pic. of the Somerset Hotel (photographed 8/01/2012) as seen from the point where the last down train (as reported in the Dorset County Chronicle of 28 Aug 1862) hauled by Broad Gauge Victoria class 2-4-0 loco “Victoria”, only just avoided ending up in the saloon bar having run away down the Upwey bank. This gave rise to the music hall song “Victoria in the Gin Shop”. '

From http://www.keykits.net/WHT/

However, zilch on the song lyrics.

Subject: RE: Victoria in the gin shop
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 11 Apr 20 - 09:08 AM

I can't help except to observe that the song is a precursor (railway reference there for some) to Dave Goulder's The Man Who Put the Engine in the Chip Shop.