Railway Poetry

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L&Y Man
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Railway Poetry

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Phillip Larkin's "The Whitsun Weddings" might qualify here, seeing as it is about a train journey from Hull to King's Cross.

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kudu
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Many of the sonnets in Gerard Benson's "Bradford & Beyond" (Flambard 1997 ISBN 1 873226 26 8) are about rail journeys.

He was also joint editor of the various poems on the Underground series.

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Dare I mention John Betjeman? And not forgetting W H Auden...
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manna
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G'Day Gents

If you go a down the page a bit there's eight pages of railway poetry :lol:

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