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RadMac Railways

To mark the 200th anniversary of rail travel in the UK, Mark and Stuart present a rail-themed special with a selection of train tracks and chat.

Mark and Stuart present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast

Today they mark the 200th anniversary of passenger train travel in the UK with a rail-themed special. There's a selection of train tracks and chat, with music from artists including Kraftwerk, Goldfrapp and James Brown.

Also on the show... long-running feature ‘The Chain’ which gives listeners the chance to pick a track that links in some way to the last. The list now contains over 8000 songs.

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Last on

Sat 2 Aug 202508:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Cure

    Jumping Someone Else's Train

    • Fiction.

  • Pulp

    Tina

    • Rough Trade.

  • The Ethiopians

    Train To Skaville

    • Quality Television.

  • Kraftwerk

    Trans-Europe Express

    • Cleopatra.

  • Vashti Bunyan

    Train Song

    • Some Things Just Stick In My Mind.
    • Inertia Music.
    • 1.

  • Guillemots

    Trains To Brazil

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Polydor.

  • James Brown

    Night Train

    • Polydor.

  • Kojey Radical

    Conversation

    • Atlantic.

  • International Teachers of Pop

    Age of the Train

    • CD Single.
    • Desolute Spool.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Runnin'

    • Warner Bros.

  • Panic Shack

    Thelma and Louise

    • Brace Yourself Records.

  • The Railway Children

    After The Rain (Radio 1 Session, 20 Apr 1988)

  • The KLF

    Last Train To Trancentral

    • EMI.

  • Soulwax

    Run Free

    • Because Music / DEEWEE.

  • The Shangri‐Las

    The Train From Kansas City

    • All Aboard!.
    • Ace.

  • Change

    Searching

    • 100 Dance Hits Of The Eighties.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Garbage

    Hold

    • Garbage Unlimited.

  • Goldfrapp

    Train

    • MUTE RECORDS.

  • Joy Crookes

    Perfect Crime

    • Insanity.

  • Bill Ryder-Jones

    Climbing The Shap Again

  • Don Thomas

    Come On Train

    • Come On Train.
    • New State Music.
    • 2.

  • Corinne Bailey Rae

    New York Transit Queen

    • Thirty Tigers.

  • The Farm

    Groovy Train

    • Island.

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Aug 202508:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music