1940’s NAAFI Tearoom
Posted on 11.04.09
I recorded this in the NAAFI tearoom at the Great Central Railway April 2009.
The tearoom is decorated and set as if it were the 1940s. Era music and the crackling of a fire proved irresistible to record, sadly it didn’t last long as customers arrived for a cup of hot chocolate!
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Gresley N2 Tank
Posted on 09.01.09
This is a beautiful little (Big) engine. I just love the colour and the lining. This recording was made at the Great Central Railway. Just before my partner and I went for an evening meal on the train.
We’d wandered down to the Loughborough shed from Loughborough central station and the engine was just having its fill of water for the trip. Sadly I had to edit out the filling because a) it takes way too long and b) there was a car in the background. Read more
[watch video]Hunslet Playing on the Cob Porthmadog
Posted on 08.16.09
Recordings of Hunslets “Playing” on the cob at the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded in May 2008 Read more
[watch video]LNER Class O4 Departs Quorn
Posted on 07.17.09
LNER Class O4 63601 Departs Quorn
I love this engine… it makes a great noise. At the start of this recording you can almost hear it saying “I can do it, I can do it” as as if from a Thomas the Tank Engine story… it then struggles, hisses and pants up the incline from Quorn with a full train finally celebrating with an exhausted “whistle” somewhere past the Rushey Lane bridge. Read more
[watch video]Earl of Merioneth arrives Porthmadog Harbour Station
Posted on 06.30.09
This is a recording I made in Wales at the Ffestiniog Railway over a year ago… but I’ve simply not had the chance to listen to it and get it ready to put on the site until now! Read more
[watch video]Railway Ballast Tamping Machine
Posted on 05.17.09
Late night recording of a railway ballast tamping machine. I was just heading off to bed when I heard an incredible noise coming from the railway line that passes through our village Read more
[watch video]Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch
Posted on 05.15.09
Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch station on the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded from the forest just along the path from the stream… which you can hear in the background. Read more
[watch video]Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch in rain
Posted on 05.15.09
On board recording of The Earl of Merioneth pulling a heavily loaded passenger train out of Tan-y-Bwlch in wet conditions. Lots of hissing and slipping. Read more
[watch video]778 Baldwin Departs Page’s Park
Posted on 05.15.09
Unlike any other railway in the UK the LBR runs through the suburbs of Leighton Buzzard making for a “polluted” recording environment. Read more
[watch video]Black 5 Departs Quorn
Posted on 05.15.09
Black Five departs from Quorn at a WW2 day at the Great Central Railway. Read more
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