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  2. Privatisation of British Rail - Wikipedia

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    Under the Railways Act 1993, the operations of the BRB were broken up and sold off to various parties while various regulatory functions transferred to the newly created office of the Rail Regulator. Ownership of the infrastructure, including the larger stations, passed to the new privately owned company Railtrack , while track maintenance and ...

  3. Le Chant des chemins de fer - Wikipedia

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    The work was incorporated with other compositions under Opus 19 No. 3, Album leaf.It is rarely played. One of the performances is that of the symphony orchestra of the SNCF with the choirs of the Oratory on the occasion of a Congress of the "Association internationale du congrès des chemins de fer" (AICCF) in 1966.

  4. List of train songs - Wikipedia

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    A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.

  5. Pete Waterman - Wikipedia

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    Peter Alan Waterman OBE DL (born 15 January 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, and television personality. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman production and songwriting team, he co-wrote [2] and co-produced many UK hit singles.

  6. Train melody - Wikipedia

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    Le chemin de fer likely was the first musical representation of train departure and arrival.. In 1844, French classical pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan composed Le chemin de fer ("The Railroad"), a programmatic étude for piano designed to depict the happy journey of train passengers from departing a train station to portraying the train pulling into a second station.

  7. Driving the Last Spike - Wikipedia

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    The second half of the song (starting at 5:41) was transposed to a lower key starting after the first nine shows of the tour. This was done to accommodate Collins' deepening voice without straining. [ citation needed ] (A recording of an early performance of "Driving the Last Spike" was released as an Atlantic Records promo CD featuring the ...

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  9. Poor Paddy Works on the Railway - Wikipedia

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    Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" is a popular Irish folk and American folk song (Roud 208). Historically, it was often sung as a sea shanty. The song portrays an Irish worker working on a railroad. There are numerous titles for the song, including "Pat Works on the Railway" and "Paddy on the Railway" and "Fillimiooriay".