Singing the Train

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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Published on Feb 13, 2017

Singing the Train tells the story through an Indigenous song of the first railway that ran between Port Hedland and Marble Bar in Western Australia’s Pilbara region from 1910 to 1951. The song sung in Nyamal language was created by the Aboriginal composer and stockman Larry Brown. Larry passed the song to his daughter Topsy Fezeldine Brown who performed it in 1964 at Port Hedland where the linguist Carl Von Brandenstein recorded it. The recording was then archived at AIATSIS.

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