Gresley N2 Tank

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

Hunslet Playing on the Cob Porthmadog

Recordings of Hunslets “Playing” on the cob at the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded in May 2008 Read more

LNER Class O4 Departs Quorn

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

Earl of Merioneth arrives Porthmadog Harbour Station

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

Thunder, Rain and Planes

Summer rain – it’s the best type of rain, especially when your water butt is getting low! I’d just returned from a walk in the countryside when the heavens opened with a crack of thunder and lightning, the rain soon started to tap away on our aluminum garden patio furniture set. Read more

Spitfire Sound Clip

Spitfire Sounds : Recording of a Spitfire Fighter Aircraft made at the WW2 Day at the Great Central Railway. Read more

Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch

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

Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch in rain

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

778 Baldwin Departs Page’s Park

Unlike any other railway in the UK the LBR runs through the suburbs of Leighton Buzzard making for a “polluted” recording environment. Read more

Black 5 Departs Quorn

Black Five departs from Quorn at a WW2 day at the Great Central Railway. Read more