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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 26606340, member: 10461"]Interesting!  Did you know that Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson did a song about Brunel on his 2014 Homo Erraticus solo album?  (I’m a big Tull/Ian Anderson fan). [MEDIA=youtube]3HETh1T5ji0[/MEDIA] All along the new straight track weplough the old fields under.Seven good feet and a quarter inch,broad rails to steal the thunder.100 picks in '36 sent navvies to meet their makeras black Box Tunnel worms its waypast the Company undertaker.Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:God bless Isambard!Piston-scraping, furnace-busting,(he) plays the winning card.Rain, Steam, Speed at Maidenhead -Turner's vision wide.Over bridges, girders, hot-drivenrivets safely guidepassenger wagons from Paddingtonto Bristol's briny blue.On to break the waves, with a thousandhorses, turn the churning screw.Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:God bless Isambard!Piston-scraping, furnace-busting,(he) plays the winning card.But those bonnie lads from way 'oopNorth, had to have the final laugh:the ripe new age was the standardgauge, four foot, eight and a half.And rolling out across all Europe,across the mad, bad Empire worldcame the age of steam and the enginesroaring, bold brazen Jack unfurled.Arching palaces at Praed Street,stand lofty and serene;home to their maker and his last twomiles to sleepy Kensal Green.Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:God bless Isambard!Piston-scraping, furnace-busting,(he) plays the winning card.[/QUOTE]