The Beeching Axe, song by The Coast of Switzerland.

Описание: A song with metaphorical allusions to the loss of the railways.
All audio by The Coast of Switzerland band.

The footage shown is from “Memories of the Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton Branches” available on the ACEWEO Channel here:
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This is excellent and well worth a watch.

No offence or infringement is intended by reposting it here, it simply fit the song and was one of the few clips available showing archive footage of the level crossing where my ancestor used to work.
Cheers!

Lyrics:

Tamerton Foliot and the lifted rails on the Tavy Mouth bridge
And on the Shepherd’s Branch there’s a farm barn where the platform is
From Gwinear Road I rode my bike to the new builds
And on the satellite map I traced the lines across the fields
And the grass moved

And I always knew it would come to a bitter end
I always knew it would come to a bitter end

Newton Pop and Adlestrop, stopping unwontedly
And at Cadhay Crossing, Aunt Maud’s cottage among the cow parsley
Do you know what you’re doing and what you’re doing it for?
It’s not up to me, it’s my neurology, I always sought out corners with comforting thoughts
Even if they weren’t true

And I always knew it would come to a bitter end
I always knew it would come to a bitter end

I just know that the Beeching Axe is going to fall again
I just know that the Beeching Axe is going to fall again

And there’s something wrong in the countryside
There’s something lost and I don’t know why
I fear there’s trouble coming down the line
Please let me live my slipcoach life.

Please let me live my slipcoach life.

(Nb. A slipcoach was a coach uncoupled from the rear of a non-stopping express train and jettisoned at a little used station in order to serve the few who wanted to go there.)

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