Betjemen poetry enquiry

[AndyK]

Ten years later I've just come across this query and i know the answer.

Old engines with their primal anger gone
Their fire and fury rusted quite away
No longer chuffing into platform one,
Butchered to make a scrapyard's holiday.
Don't think they will not take it hard at Hatch,
Thornfalcon, Donyatt, Chard, their summary despatch.

It is by Caryl Brahms and was broadcast on the satyrical TV programme That Was The Week That Was, but I saw it as a chapter heading in "Gone With Regret" by George Behrend.

[Autocar Publicity]

A belated thanks. (I'm not able to log in much at the moment).

That does make sense, as the person I was asking for did have a copy of Gone with Regret and could well have half-remembered this. The eulogy was given some time ago but it's a worthy piece of poetry.

Thank you.

[Pyewipe Junction]

Ten years later I've just come across this query and i know the answer.

Old engines with their primal anger gone
Their fire and fury rusted quite away
No longer chuffing into platform one,
Butchered to make a scrapyard's holiday.
Don't think they will not take it hard at Hatch,
Thornfalcon, Donyatt, Chard, their summary despatch.

It is by Caryl Brahms and was broadcast on the satyrical TV programme That Was The Week That Was, but I saw it as a chapter heading in "Gone With Regret" by George Behrend.

I think you mean 'satirical'. 'Satyrical' is something else again!.