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recommended listening

• Billy Pigg
• Cilla Black
• The Clash
• David Bowie
• The Dead Kennedys
• Gang of Four
• Half-Man Half-Biscuit
• Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'Reasons to be cheerful: part 3'
• Incredible String Band
• Juicy Lucy's version of 'Train'
• Kathryn Tickell
• Lewis 'Scan' Tester
• Mumford and Sons
• 'Pocahontas' by Neil Young
• Pig Dyke Molly
• The Pogues (also The Pogues 'Poor Paddy on the railway'; YouTube not Soundcloud)
• The Police
• The Raincoats
• The Ramones
• The Sex Pistols
• Siouxie and the Banshees
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Teifi Harps
• X-Ray Specs

So far no luck tracking down these on Soundcloud:

• The Oyster Band
• Scottish pibroch
• Juicy Lucy's version of 'Chicago North Western'

And, 'just because' (both YouTube not Soundcloud)

• Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway – 'Jerry go and oil that car'
• 'Ace of Spades' (recorded live in the Ace Cafe, Eaton St Torpid)

And, especially because they mix railway driver POV with trance techno (all YouTube)

• San Gottardo Railway (more about San Gottardo Railway – check out the spirals-in-tunnels)
• Brünigbahn from Luzern to Interlaken (more about the metre gauge Brünigbahn)
• Odontotos-Diakofto-Kalavryta railway (more about the 750 mm gauge Odontotos-Diakofto-Kalavryta railway)

In the autumn of 1928, after a classical orchestra performance that attempted to mimic a train (George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue), DeFord Bailey took the stage and played one of his trademark tunes, 'Pan American Blues', which emulates the sound of a locomotive speeding down the tracks – on just a harmonica. This was the first ever country music played at the Grand Ole Opry. And a film of the event has survived: Pan American Blues' by DeFord Bailey

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