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Australian railway songs
- Subject: Australian railway songs
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:15:19 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:30602
More research on the topic of Australian railway songs has come up with
something inetresting. William H. Paling composed The Sydney Railway Waltz
in 1855 for the opening of the Parramatta line. The NSW Railway Institute
Band made a recording in 1955. Does anybody know if this recording was
included in any later compilation, or if a more recent recording is
available?
Another interesting one The Sleeper Cutters' Camp, written as a poem by
Dan Sheehan in the trenches of France during WW1. It has recently been set
to music, but I don't have any details.
Does anybody know of a recording of The Woy Woy Workers' Train by Joe
Fernside?
Cheers
David