Just seen these queries. Great song written by Mike back in the late 60's or 70's. Chris Rowe and I sang it with Mike on a BBC programme called Come on In - about 1971. We also backed him on the Yorkshire Dales Railway Society EP Folk Train. Words & chords - as in my notes from the time

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  In the year of '69 they planned to run a train
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From Settle to Carlisle across the mountain range
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  They employed 3000 navvies to build this mighty road
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Across the fells to Appleby that old steam engine rolled
  
  Chorus: after every verse
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  ?And it's up in the morning, lads
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  In wind, snow and hail
   C?
  Hold fast your hammers, lads
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  And lay another rail

It's 72 miles from Settle to Carlisle?
Across the roughest country in the British Isles?
They said it would take 4 years, but it took ’em nearer seven?
And the first 20 miles sent 400 men to heaven

They set up shanty towns to protect them from the cold?
Inkerman, Sebastopol and Batty White Hole?
And when they tired of women and the drinking of strong beer?
They fought bare-fist style and they came from far and near

When the winter came, it froze them to the floor
?It blew them off the viaducts and killed them on Blae Moor?
Some died of the smallpox, some of cholera?
Chapel and St Leonard there’s many buried there

Now if you ride this famous line across the heathered fells?
When crossing Ribblehead viaduct remember the tale I tell?
There's Mallestang, and Aisgill and the Dent Dales lovely wilds?
And navvy lads a-slavin' from Settle to Carlisle