For over 150 years songwriters, poets musicians and writers have observed and recorded many aspects of Australian railway life. Many of the songs and poems came directly from those who were employed in building or operating national railway systems. Others items came from those who used railways as passengers, or recall trains amongst their earliest memories.

Collecting the experiences of railways recorded by songwriters and poets across thousands of miles of Australian railway tracks remains a huge task.

A number of songs, poems, stories and anecdotes, mainly from the decades of work by Brian Dunnett, have been uploaded along with a request for more such material to be considered for this collection.

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 2009.

see http://railwaysongs.blogspot.com/