When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was
the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then
there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and
railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway
journeys; those that celebrate the opening of a new line; worksongs
and blues describing the hardship of building the railroads, even
the first use of sampled music used railway sounds as its source.
From the pastoral serenity of the Flanders and Swann song 'Slow
train' to the shrieking horror of holocaust trains in Steve Reich's
Different Trains, the railway has inspired countless pieces of
music. This is the first book to give a comprehensive coverage of
music connected with the railways, it describes over 50 pieces of
classical music and covers more than 250 popular songs.
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