This page was created on 2 November 2005.
- 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]
other National Rail sounds
London Underground sounds
- 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:
- 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
- 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]