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The Bush Music Club is preparing a collection of fifty Australian Railway Songs and Poems including the following titles:

2nd Class Wait Here
3801
The Ballad Of Janet Oakden
Beside A Railway Line
Comrade Fettler
Empty Rails
Eveleigh
Farewell To Steam
For The Company Underground
The Gates Of 23
Hard Road
He Understood
The Jilted Engine Driver
The Navvies
The New Exhibits
Number Twenty-Two
On The Queensland Railway Lines
The Paymaster
Railway Kids
Railway Widow's Blues
Seargent Small
The Shunter
The Sydney Railway Waltz
The Sandy Hollow Line
The Sleeper Cutters' Camp
The Perth To Adelaide Trooper
Trains Of Treasure
Train Trip To Guilford
The Workman's Square Deal
The Woy Woy Workers Train
Tweed And Lismore

As part of the ongoing effort to collect Australian Railway Songs and Poems and to ensure their ongoing use in such events as next year's International Railway Heritage Conference. the Bush Music Club is preparing a work book of Australian Railway songs and poems that it hopes to publish in time for the National Folk Festival at Easter. Below is a draft of the material . The contents will be limited to 50 items they appear below as research for the final document. What we want is details of the song and poem as written, a music score and correct references that will allow us to approach sources of the material that may still be in copyright. Other material like photographs wil be added as the work progress.

Brian Dunnnett 0296689051 bdunnett@ar.com.au or the Bush Music Club if you have proposals.