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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Re: Railway Poetry
Many of the sonnets in Gerard Benson's "Bradford & Beyond" (Flambard 1997 ISBN 1 873226 26 
are about rail journeys.
He was also joint editor of the various poems on the Underground series.
Kudu
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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If you go a down the page a bit there's eight pages of railway poetry
manna
If you go a down the page a bit there's eight pages of railway poetry
manna
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