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DEMUs (as in the Hastings DEMU)

Preserved Hastings DEMU roars through Basingstoke down the main at full speed (old microphone) [0′32″ 130kB]
Preserved Hastings DEMU returns later in the day having been to south Devon, clattering over the diamond pointwork at 75 mph (old microphone) [0′30″ 121kB]
Preserved Hastings DEMU makes a splendid noise (on-board recording) as it leaves Bexhill (old microphone) [0′50″ 205kB]
English Electric engine of motor coach 60118 is shut down at St. Leonards Depot [0′34″ 140kB]

Oxted DEMU 203 leaves Ashford for Hastings (on-board) [0′48″ 196kB]
Oxted DEMU 203 leaves Ashford extremely noisily with an exuberant driver, heading for Hastings [1′02″ 261kB]
Oxted DEMU 203 cautiously departs from Doleham up the bank towards Three Oaks [1′08″ 279kB]
Wheelslipping Oxted DEMU 203 hilariously struggles to get up the bank from Ham Street on a rainy night during the leaf-fall season: the driver is over-optimistic and eventually causes an overload trip. The wheelslip relay can be heard operating, by the fall of the turbo-charger note; full power is finally reached after 2′05″ ! [2′30″ 614kB]
Oxted DEMU leaves Ashford with a train for Hastings, in the rain [0′41″ 168kB]

4-VEP gets wheelspin as it leaves Canterbury East during the leaf-fall season [0′29″ 121kB]

Triple-Chime whistle of 1938 tube stock train 006 on the Isle of Wight (on-train recording) [0′07″ 28kB]
Sonia (Central Line) delicately announcing “This train terminates at Hainault, via Newbury Park”, on an Eastbound train at St. Paul’s; “Sonia”, so called because staff declared that “It getS ON YA nerves” (!) was at that time the digitised voice of Janet Mayo, who works for BBC TV in Nottingham. Janet has seen this page and, although pleased to be featured on my site, understandably wanted to know, “How on earth have I become known as Sonia?”!! [0′07″ 28kB]
Celia (Northern Line) announces Mornington Crescent station (on-train recording) [0′16″ 65kB]

…and the one in search of which everyone seems to come here:

Mind The Gap announcement sandwiched into a recording of a northbound Bakerloo Line train calling at Waterloo [1′24″ 344kB]

Bakerloo Line train (on-board): illustrates the PCM camshaft and line-breakers operating, on a journey between Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus [0′52″ 214kB]
Piccadilly Line train runs (non-stop) through Ravenscourt Park, eastbound [0′23″ 93kB]
Northern Line 1959 stock train: the last train of the day travels from Angel to King’s Cross (on-board recording), I alight; after waiting time and having to re-close the doors, the train leaves for Euston [3′16″ 800kB]

Formula 1 cars at the 1998 pre-Grand Prix Silverstone test session; taken from the exit of Luffield, all the cars eventually peel off into the pits when the session is red-flagged [1′24″ 344kB]
Formula 1 cars leaving the pits (taken from behind pit-lane): note extreme volume! [0′32″ 130kB]