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3 unusual facts about Brel


Brel

Andrew Brel, (born Andreas Broulidakis 28 September 1960), UK music producer

BREL - now extinct company British Rail Engineering Limited

Cowlairs

After nationalisation in 1948, the works became the property of BREL, who used steam locomotives until 1968.


Agnès Bihl

Inspired by Brel, Brassens, Renaud and Anne Sylvestre, Agnès Bihl appreciates the lyrics of French song.

Ashton Lane

Other bars and restaurants were opened: the Cul-de-Sac creperie in the former Barr and Stroud factory and Bar Brel in the old coachhouse that had been used latterly as a landscape gardener's yard but was, in 1910, the chauffeur’s house and garage for Dr Marion Gilchrist’s 'prim dark green Wolseley landaulette'.

Bundesbahn Central Offices

British Rail Engineering Ltd. (BREL) and British Rail Research Division : Contemporary British (UK) organisations, no longer extant since privatisation.

Cowlairs

The works closed in 1968, and contracts were transferred to St. Rollox railway works, which was renamed as BREL's Glasgow works.

Jacques Brel metro station

After the city of Brussels started with art projects to enhance their underground, Maurice Wyckaert was appointed to decorate the Jacques Brel station.


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