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Thread #20196 Message #2898748
Posted By: GUEST,Bernard Sanders, England
02-May-10 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: Train Songs
Subject: RE: Train Songs
My great-great grandfather was William H Brinkworth, born Shoreditch, east London 1835,son of a musician. In the 1860s-70s he led the orchestra at the Britannia theatre in Hoxton (home to the British Music Hall genre)and was also musical director for a string of Broadway shows, regularly commuting the Atlantic by steamboat.
He wrote a song called "The Young man on the railway." Can any one come up with the full lyrics or music?