Question: Are both The Waterboys and The Railway Children British alternative rock bands?

Context articles: The Railway Children (band)
New wave of new wave
List of punk rock bands, L–Z
The Waterboys
Goodbye Jumbo
R.E.M. discography
World Party
Lawrence (musician)
Scottish music (1980–1989)
Massacre (Argentine band)

The Railway Children are a British alternative rock band, formed in Wigan in 1984, by Gary Newby (songwriter/vocals/guitar/keyboards), Brian Bateman (rhythm/guitar), Guy Keegan (drums), and Stephen Hull (bass).
The New Wave of New Wave (NWONW) was coined by music journalists to describe a subgenre of the British alternative rock scene in the early 1990s, in which bands displayed post-punk and new wave influences, particularly from bands such as The Clash, Blondie, Wire, and The Stranglers.
 The associated bands generally played guitar-based rock music often accompanied by keyboards.
 The movement was short lived and several of the bands involved were later linked with the more commercially successful Britpop, which it immediately preceded, and the NWONW was described by John Harris of "The Guardian" (one of the journalists who first coined the term) as "Britpop without the good bits".
 The "NME" played a major part in promoting and covering the genre, and promoted the "On" event, which featured many of the bands they had labelled NWONW.
This is a list of notable punk rock bands (letters L through Z).
 The bands listed have played some type of punk music at some point in their career, although they may have also played other styles.
 Bands who played in a style that influenced early punk rock—such as garage rock and protopunk—but never played punk rock themselves, should not be on this list.
 Bands who created a new genre that was influenced by (but is not a subgenre of) punk rock—such as alternative rock, crossover thrash, grunge, metalcore, new wave, and post-punk—but never played punk rock, should not be listed either.
The Waterboys are a Scottish/Irish folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott.
 The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland and Ireland with Edinburgh, Dublin, Spiddal, New York and Findhorn, serving as homes for the group.
 Mike Scott has remained as the only constant member throughout the band's career.
 They have explored a number of different styles, but their music is mainly a mix of Celtic folk music with rock and roll.
 They dissolved in 1993 when Scott departed to pursue a solo career.
 They reformed in 2000, and continue to release albums and tour worldwide.
 Scott emphasises a continuity between The Waterboys and his solo work, saying that "To me there's no difference between Mike Scott and the Waterboys; they both mean the same thing.
 They mean myself and whoever are my current travelling musical companions."
Goodbye Jumbo is the second studio album by British alternative rock band World Party.
 Originally released on 24 April 1990 on Ensign Records, the album was aided by a number of guest artists, including Sinéad O'Connor and frontman Karl Wallinger's former bandmates in The Waterboys.
 Its traditional rock sound – guitar, bass and drums – was augmented by piano, strings, flute and electronic percussion.
 The songs on "Goodbye Jumbo" follow the loose concept of an everyman's journey from lonely despair to spiritual fulfillment.
American alternative rock band R.E.M. released 15 studio albums ranging from 1983 to 2011, three live albums, 14 compilation albums, one remix album, one soundtrack album, 12 video albums, seven extended plays, 63 singles, and 77 music videos. Formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry, the band was pivotal in the development of the alternative rock genre.
 Their musical style inspired several other alternative rock bands and musicians, and the band became one of the first alternative rock acts to experience breakthrough commercial success.
 R.E.M. has sold over 85 million copies of their studio albums worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all-time.
World Party is a British alternative rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its sole member, Karl Wallinger.
 He started the band in 1986 in London after leaving The Waterboys.
Lawrence Hayward (born 12 August 1961), known mononymously as Lawrence, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.
 He is known as the frontman in the British alternative rock bands Felt, Denim and Go Kart Mozart.
 He has never used his surname in credits or press for his work.
During the 1980s, Scottish music featured post-punk bands exemplified by Simple Minds and Josef K, and bands like Runrig that remained closer to the Scottish dance music tradition.
 Folk rock or Celtic rock bands launched in the 1980s included The Waterboys and The Proclaimers.
 Among the folk singers of the time were Dick Gaughan and Bill Drummond, and Ewan MacColl who died in 1989.
Massacre is an Argentine Alternative rock band, formed in 1986 in Buenos Aires.
 It was formed by high school students influenced by American and British bands of the early 80s Alternative Rock movement.
 Among his influences, artists like TSOL, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Nirvana, The Cure, Guns N' Roses, The Ramones, T. Rex, Sumo, Gustavo Cerati, Luis Alberto Spinetta, among others.
 Taking cues from the Underground rock scene in the United States, they gained notoriety at the time for being an entirely independent group that self-managed its affairs, as well as producing and distributing its own records (attitudes which were still fairly foreign to Latin American rock bands of the era).
 This helped pave way for the cult status that the band still enjoys within and outside their native Argentina.