Re: Australian railway songs

[coolah <coolah@tpg.com.au>]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:15:19 GMT, dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David
Bromage) wrote:

>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

All three are included on the recently published CD "Trains of
Treasure" put out by the Combined Railway Unions Cultural Exhibition
Committee.