Railway Song and Poems

Australian Railway Songs, Poems and Tunes

About this Research Archive Brian Dunnett (2007)          Trains Of Treasure Exhibition Posters (30)

see Ken Robertson's CDs of 80 Train Songs

see also Eastern Torres Strait Islander Songs

a) From various sources

83 Ordinary People 150 Hiney-Monoosh The 5603 or Death Where is Thy Sting A Ballad of the Rail  (1909) A Navvy's Swan-Song (1915) A Call From Gallipoli (1915) A Hobo Retires (1939) The Ace Driver A Parson's in the Camp (1935) A Railway Ballad (1858) A Railway Concert (1930) A Song of the Railway Town The Afghan's Song A Union Man Adelaide Tram Cars (1884) All Along The Belgrave Line At The Railway Station An All-right Railway Man (1903) Australian Navvies on the Line (1912) Bagatelles The Bagman's Farewell Banjo Bill The Battler's Ballad Bide A Wee Bit Big Green 38  Billy Sheehan Blame the Railways (1924) Bloke in the Jacky Howe The Border Town Railway Brake, Brake, Brake The Broken Hill Port Pirie Line Bring Back the Bloody Train Bullocky Bill and His Old Red Team Cane Train Caws From Crowland Coal Train The Collingwood Railway The Coombell Railway Smash Come With Me Dancing' Do Your Duty, Do it Well Don't Close The Depot Down Down and Outback The Dying Fettler The Dying Railway Commissioner The Dying Sleeper Cutter The End of the Line The Engine Driver Engine Driver's Epitaph The Engine Drivers English Imitations (1860) The Eyesight Test. His Last Trip! Farewell Old Pal February Fettling On The Line Flying Gang For the Fields (1894) From a Railway Carriage (1885) From the Train Gallopin' Out The Geelong-Melbourne-Railway Polka The Ghan The Ghan The Gippsland Railway The Glenbrook Train Smash The Good Time Coming (1858) Goulwatown Ride The Gowrie Junction Smash Grand-Dad (1917) The Granville Disaster The Granville Incident Hands Off Cessnock Trains Hides–The Toughest of the Tough The Hobo's Song (1939) Home On The Comet The Hotel Tout (1902) How Do the Numbers Go? (1930s) How I Took The Bait (1933) Hundred Year Old Dream Hi-ya NESOWARA I Met Her on the Railway (1856) I'm Going Back to Graft (1890) I Met Her on the Railway The Illawarra Flyer Illusions In Midland Where The Trains Go By Indian Pacific The Iron Steed Is the Track Clear ? Jeames of Buckley Square – A Heligy (1850) Jimmy Shearer (1899) John Bull's Locomotive Leg (1846) The Launceston And Deloraine Railway Lay of the Navvy (1872) The Leave Train The Lights of Gladstone Little Pig 400 The Lonely Fettlers (1940) Making the Grade The Men on the Road Midland Railway Workshops Missing Mates Morning and Night The Moss Vale Train Mount Morgan Moving, Shifting (1938) My New Career Path Napean River Song (2001) The Navvies "strike" with horrid din The Navvies The Navvies (2) The Navvy Crew The Navvy (1903) The Navvy (1911) The Navvy (1927) Navvy Jack (1911) The Navvy On The Line The Navvy's Shovel (1913)

The Navvies' Lament (1918) The Navvy Volunteer (1917) The Newcastle Flyer The Night Operator (1893) The Night Ride The Northcliffe Line The North-South Railway The Northern Comet (1942) The Northern Mail Not Your Sky Oh, The Mountains The Old Bush Workers The Old Chum's Musings Old Ninety Seven ... On the Gundagai Line - Railway Bum Ballad On The Night Train On Retirement Only a Navvy (1889) Our Railway Men Our Track! Overtime The People’s Asset The Pickers' Train Phillis on the Railway Platform Humlet – Percy Grainger The Poison Train The Poolers Rambling Thoughts Rail and Road The Railway The Railway Buffet Sandwich The Railway Chi-yikes The Railway Crossing The Railway Hotel Railway Line The Railway Phantom Railway Poet - Weird Work The Railway Question Railway Rhymes Railway's Comin' Through Railway to the Sky Railways 1846 Red Light Riding on the Rail Ridin' On The Fruit Train Rose Days Salute to the Paddle Wheels The Scab Train Sergeant Small or Down and Outback The "Seven Thirty Two" Short O' My Time The Singleton Railway Galop (1863) The Sleeper Cutter (1931) The Sleeper Cutters (1934) The Sleeper Cutters Camp Sleeper Cutting at Baradine Smithy Snowy's Joke (1924) Song of the Engine (1878) Song of the Engineer (1907) Song of the Engine Driver (1891) Songs of the Engine-driver (1907) Song of the Engine Man (1908) Song of the Fettler The Song of the "Hobo" (1917) Song of the Locomotive (1901) The Song of the Midnight Express (1931) The Song of the Pen (1907) The Song of the Pick and Shovel (1915) The Song of The Old Rail-Motor The Song of the Railway League (1863) The Song of the Railway Train (1933) Song of the Signalman (1885) The Song of Steam (1850) Song of the Strike of 1917 (1917) Sound Sleepers (1922) The Squatters' Dirge (1883) The Staff Clerk's Lament (1918) Steam (1905) Steam's Up! The Sunshine Disaster The Sydney Train (1930) To The Railway Strikers (1903) The Tramway Men (1910) Tram-Car Song (1905) Three Rivers Hotel (1970) TOOT for the Future - Trains On Our Tracks! Toronto The Traffic Manager (1903) The Train (1946) Train Of Thought  The Train to Slumber Town (1913) Train Music: Percy Grainger Train To Lidcombe Trains on the brain Train Song The Transcontinental (1936) Two Up And Eleven Down The Union Rule Book The Wail of the Railway Ham Sandwich (1885) The Warren Railway (1909) Water To The Trenches The Wearin' o' The Badge (1912) Werris Creek All Tickets Please The Wheel On Steel: A Line To Darwin When Do We Get The Rise? When the Coal Blew Away When we Get the Railway up to Kurrajong (1902) The Whistle of a Train (1939) The Wild Beaudesert Train With My Navvy Boots On Wolgan Valley Ghost Train The Women of the West Workless The Wreck of the North West Mail The Wreck of the Thallon Mail Your Tool Box will be Raffled By and By Yurin Kabi - Juldigabi  The Zig Zag Railway

b) From Railway Ballads by "Daybreak" (Published 1913, Burnie Tasmania)

The Balfour Railway

c) Selected Verse by Chas. J. Franklin

Over The Fence
"The Militant Group"
The Loco Lament

d) Verse of Frank Brown

Billy Lappin
A Railway Porter's Job
Eastwood Fatality
Engine 1174
The Engine Driver's Soliloquy
The Final Failure's Dream
The Fireman’s Lament
"Lest We Forget"
Lithgow Barracks Attendant
Realised Ambitions
The Retired Railwaymen's Reunion
The Springwood Smash
T.M.D.
The Wreck of the Rodney

e) From the Trains of Treasure CD

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
Sergeant 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
Tweed And Lismore
The Workman's Square Deal
The Woy Woy Workers Train