I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
1: The scream of an HST loco.
2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
into Charing X
3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away

Thomas wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford
> Bridge into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away



You've not heard (or seen) any of the old main-line steam locomotives in
action, then?
Boy, you've not lived!

-- 
DB. (who worked in Crewe Works in the last days of steam).

>> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
>> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford
>> Bridge into Charing X
>> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away
>
>
> You've not heard (or seen) any of the old main-line steam locomotives in
> action, then?
> Boy, you've not lived!
>


Unfortuantly I'm too young for that..

"Thomas"  wrote:


>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away


A Deltic pulling away.


-- 
Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
http://jtrains.fotopic.net/

Dave Fossett wrote:

> "Thomas"  wrote:
>
> >I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> > 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> > 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge
> > into Charing X
> > 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away
>
> A Deltic pulling away.



For me this was just beaten by a Deltic starting its engines (which
they sometimes did in the former shed and Kings Cross).  Whoosh-boom
(twice).

Or then again, maybe the hoot a commuter train about to come round the
bend, indicating that I have a chance of getting to work.

in article ZDiNe.120$Sf6.71@news1.dion.ne.jp, Dave Fossett at
reply@via.newsgroup wrote on 19/8/05 11:37:


> "Thomas"  wrote:
> 
>> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
>> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge
>> into Charing X
>> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away
> 
> A Deltic pulling away.
> 



A summer evening in 1979 (Bangor - Man Vic stopper)
- A class 40 accelerating through Bangor Tunnel, whistling (like a hundred
milk crates full of empties in an earthquake....what causes that?) and the
thundering bursts on the throttle, also the odours - the obvious diesel
fumes combined with the cool damp drippy mildew smell of the tunnel. The
senses bombarded with my head out of the leading carriage door window of a
mk1? corridor 2nd?

Sitting in my grandma's back garden on a hot afternoon listening to the
sound of the local 4F 0-6-0 shunting in the goods yard.

In article <AriNe.10160$bf6.5745@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>,
DB.  wrote:

>Thomas wrote:
>> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
>> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford
>> Bridge into Charing X
>> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away


Not .ukian, but a very evocative noise: the slightly "gritty" hum, rising 
in pitch, of the big synchronous motors of a DM3 as it pulls away
on the Ofotsbahnen with 5000-odd tons of iron ore behind. 
I'll be interested to see if the DM3s are still at work up there,
or if the i-OREs have taken over all the LKAB traffic [1]


>You've not heard (or seen) any of the old main-line steam locomotives in
>action, then?
>Boy, you've not lived!


Only ever got to hear the T2s and P3s of BR-steam, and I was really
too young to appreciate it properly :(

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
		Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
		 money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

In article , Thomas  wrote:

>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>1: The scream of an HST loco.
>2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
>into Charing X
>3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 


Not .ukian, but a very evocative noise: the slightly "gritty" hum, rising
in pitch, of the big synchronous motors of a DM3 as it pulls away
on the Ofotsbahnen with 5000-odd tons of iron ore behind.
I'll be interested to see if the DM3s are still at work up there,
or if the i-OREs have taken over all the LKAB traffic [1]

[1] revisiting Kiruna next week :)

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
		"When I was young I used to scintillate
                 now I only sin 'til ten past three" (Ogden Nash)

In article <BF2B7CAE.43180%Neil.Jones@acornprintuk.com>,
Neil Jones   wrote:

>- A class 40 accelerating through Bangor Tunnel, whistling (like a hundred
>milk crates full of empties in an earthquake....what causes that?) and the


Turbochargers.

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Speaking for myself, not the University of Wales
		"your suggestion rates at four monkeys for six weeks"
						(Peter D. Rieden)

Thomas  wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 



A pair of 37s starting.
A Deltic at top speed.
Duke of Gloucester leaving a station.
An HST departing under a station roof.
Pulling away from Leeds (in the 80s) behind a Peak or 47, over the points and on wet rails...
and of course... 
The sound of tea pouring into a china cup in the restaurant car on a
GNER Mallard Mk4 set ;)

pete
-- 
pete@fenelon.com "There's no room for enigmas in built-up areas"

Thomas wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 
> 
> 

A class 50 pulling away from Truro station with the Penzance to
Paddington sleeper, thrashing its way across the viaduct,
the sound decreasing as it heads out into the countryside before
it finally disappears into a tunnel.

Even better when it was double-headed.

Oh for those days again!

"Thomas"  wrote in message news:3mlnvpF17f3qdU1@individual.net...

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away


A HST pulling away (evocative of child-hood memories of returning to
Tamworth from Birmingham, I guess!).

A well-powered steamer going full-ahead.

Jubilee Line trains starting off.

Clackety-clack.

The whistle of a class 20.

Signal wires twitching through a squeaky pulley (and, consequently, the
clonk of a signal being thrown back).


-- 
Ronnie
--
Have a great day...
....Have a Great Central day.
www.greatcentralrailway.com

"Andrew Robert Breen"  wrote in message 
news:de4g9n$8si4$1@central.aber.ac.uk...

> In article <AriNe.10160$bf6.5745@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>,
> DB.  wrote:
>>Thomas wrote:
>>> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>>> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
>>> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford
>>> Bridge into Charing X
>>> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away
>
> Not .ukian, but a very evocative noise: the slightly "gritty" hum, rising
> in pitch, of the big synchronous motors of a DM3 as it pulls away
> on the Ofotsbahnen with 5000-odd tons of iron ore behind.
> I'll be interested to see if the DM3s are still at work up there,
> or if the i-OREs have taken over all the LKAB traffic [1]
>
>>You've not heard (or seen) any of the old main-line steam locomotives in
>>action, then?
>>Boy, you've not lived!
>
> Only ever got to hear the T2s and P3s of BR-steam, and I was really
> too young to appreciate it properly :(
>
> -- 
> Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, 
> Aberystwyth
> Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
> money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

(1) The sound of the (sadly no longer running) Fos-sur-mer to Digoin coil 
train coming up the Vallee d'Azergues in southern Beaujolais. 3200t with 2 
BB68000 on the front and a CC72000 banking, the whole lot reverberating off 
the valley sides. Even more pleasing was that it used to pass us just as we 
began our lunchtime aperetifs.....
(2) My relief's footsteps at 06:30 when I've been on night shift.
(3) A 37 on a rake of unfitted minerals taking a run at the bottom of the 
Mynydd-Mawr
Brian

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 


The sound of boobs bouncing together on an Electrostar!

The sound of the compressed air starters on (that i have heard) class 66 and 
67, that long drawn out whooooo sound, beautiful
james

"Nicks"  wrote in message
news:4305d0a6$0$97103$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...


> Dislikes:
> Mobile phone rings/conversations
> Walkmans etc.
> Noise from electronic games etc.


To add to that list, that set of mobile phone users that have got their
phones set up to beep on every key-press. So when you're sat next to one of
these gits who is texting, all you hear is "beep beep beep .... beep ....
beep beep .... beep beep beep beep", etc.

IT MAKES ME MAAAAAAD!

(No, Mungo!)


-- 
Ronnie
--
Have a great day...
....Have a Great Central day.
www.greatcentralrailway.com

"Thomas"  wrote in message news:3mlnvpF17f3qdU1@individual.net...

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away
>


Mine include both steam and diesel:

1. Back to the 1950s: A Gresley V2 slogging up the 1 in 200 through Hadley
Woods with the evening York fast goods. 600 tons of  4-wheel fitted vans and
container flats behind the tender, plume of grey-black clag trailing behind
right back almost the length of the train. Magic.  Utterly unforgettable.
Today's 60800 with spot-on valve events doesn't sound anything like what a
V2 used to be like.

2.More 1950s:  Ex-GWR Star Class 4059 Princess Patricia starting away from
Oxford with an up Worcester express. This loco was the equal of a Castle.

3.1980s: Class 37 northbound from Rannoch with the heavy bauxite ore train
to Fort William smelter. Rails slippery with the early morning dew. Power
on - slip - power off - power on again- more slipping ...repeat many many
times ........ took about 20 minutes to get over the viaduct just north of
Rannoch station.

>From the past: A 303;  the hiss of the brakes being released, the

compressor starts its whiny rythmic thump, which slows a bit when the
power is applied and you get that violent jolt forward; the creaking
and groaning of the rubbing plates, the angry growl from the
transformers spitting on/off until the deep whine from the traction
motors kicks in. Then you get the hammer of the obligatory wheelflats
as you pick up speed, the whine turns to a manic scream as you hit
55mph and go over some jointed track.. clackety clack, all the
quarterlight windows open, air rushing in, f*cking HELLFIRE!

Present day : The three axled clatter of a 37 galloping over jointed
track on the west highland line, followed by a snorting rasping burst
of hell from the exhausts, and the scream from the turbos echoing
accross Rannoch moor while I'm hanging half my body out of a droplight
behind it.

David

You are dead right about the V2s. I never heard many as a child, not
living close to the main line but I have some of Peter Handfords
recordings of them. The stereo recordings on the Waverley route are
wonderful, not least because they start with the train about 2 miles
away and last around 5 minutes. There is also one on the GW&GC Joint
with a V2 on (I think) a late running Starlight Express doing what
would seem to be about 90 mph.

Steam, diesel & electric for me, the first two heard most
nights in days of yore from my own bedroom window!

Steam:
Two BR Std 4MT 2-6-0s hammering up Vulcan Bank from
Winwick Junction to Earlestown with a train of sand-filled
hoppers for the glassworks in St Helens. Sometimes, on a
wet night, an 8F had to give them a shove from behind!

Diesel:
A locally-built English Electric Type 4/Class 40 thundering
& turbo-whistling *down* Vulcan Bank after making the
late night Earlestown stop with the Manchester-Holyhead
boat train. Only after that had gone by could I go to sleep.

Electric:
A Manx Electric Railway power car and trailer grinding round
the sharp curves at Groudle, Laxey and Cornaa, with motors
humming, commutator brushes whining and overhead trolley
wheel singing along the overhead traction wire. Even more
exhilarating when you're actually driving it yourself, as I was
able to do after taking a couple of driving courses!


Regards,

DigitisED  (Eddie Bellass)

Mythical Merseyside, in the Occupied Territories
of Old Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free and checked
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Thomas wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 


The sound of everyone on their mobiles repeatedly getting cut off going 
through the tunnels north of KX.

"I'll be getting into King's Cross so... Hello? Hello?"

The message <de4h3s$4pb$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>
from "Ronnie Clark"
 contains
these words:


> Signal wires twitching through a squeaky pulley (and, consequently, the
> clonk of a signal being thrown back).


That's something else that's missing from today's railway.  I have a
Peter Handford recording (Trains in the Night) of a "King" blasting
through Princes Risborough station on a late-running
Paddington-Birmingham express. You hear the express approaching the
station, whistle screaming, the train roars through the station and the
sound dies away in the distance.  As you strain to hear the last sounds
of the train, a nearby semaphore signal returns to the on-position - if
you're listening on headphones the sound of that signal seems to remove
hearing from your right ear for some time afterwards.

-- 
Dave,                                     
Frodsham

Thomas wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away


The sound of a 37 opening up from Ely station away in the distance with
a heavy train and passing my signalbox at full scream.  The sound of
the deafening growl, levers crashing back, block bells ringing and a
rush of clickety clack as the 12 carriages hurry past on their way to
London.  

All now a distant memory... :-(

Greg

"Thomas"  wrote in message news:3mlnvpF17f3qdU1@individual.net...

>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away


1. Sulzer 6LDA
2. A HST starting up inside a station
3. Deltic

-- 
*** http://www.railwayscene.co.uk/ ***
Rich Mackin (rich-at-richmackin-co-uk)
MSN: richmackin-at-hotmail-dot-com

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:44:23 +0100, "Thomas"  wrote:


>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:


The sound of a Class 101 DMU accelerating at full power from a stand,
with all 4 engines going.

An HST departing on full power (as others have said).

The soft "dong-ding" before the standard German "An Gleis N bitte
einsteigen..." announcement before a train departs on DB, followed by
the whistle and the slam of the automatic slamdoors - all at once.
Best experienced late at night on an empty station for some reason.

The audible "clunk" of the tap-changer on an older DB E-Lok as it
hauls said train away from said station at N in the morning.

The sound of old-style clasp brakes, especially when accompanied by a
nice bit of perfectly-judged full-service positive braking from
linespeed to a smooth stand at exactly the right point on the platform
in one motion.

That do for now?  Unfortunately, some aren't available in this
country, and are increasingly rare in .de...

Neil

-- 
Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK
When replying please use neil at the above domain
'wensleydale' is a spam trap and is not read.

"Neil Williams"  wrote in message 
news:4306235f.1158756@news.tesco.net...

> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:44:23 +0100, "Thomas"  wrote:
>
>>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>
> The sound of a Class 101 DMU accelerating at full power from a stand,
> with all 4 engines going.
>
> An HST departing on full power (as others have said).
>
> The soft "dong-ding" before the standard German "An Gleis N bitte
> einsteigen..." announcement before a train departs on DB, followed by
> the whistle and the slam of the automatic slamdoors - all at once.
> Best experienced late at night on an empty station for some reason.
>
> The audible "clunk" of the tap-changer on an older DB E-Lok as it
> hauls said train away from said station at N in the morning.
>
> The sound of old-style clasp brakes, especially when accompanied by a
> nice bit of perfectly-judged full-service positive braking from
> linespeed to a smooth stand at exactly the right point on the platform
> in one motion.
>
> That do for now?  Unfortunately, some aren't available in this
> country, and are increasingly rare in .de...
>
> Neil
>
> -- 
> Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK
> When replying please use neil at the above domain
> 'wensleydale' is a spam trap and is not read.
>
>
Quote
> The sound of old-style clasp brakes, especially when accompanied by a
> nice bit of perfectly-judged full-service positive braking from
> linespeed to a smooth stand at exactly the right point on the platform
> in one motion.
..>
>

Yes with an 8sub, and one splash of the Westinghouse brake, in the wet.
Step forward the legendary J.Little of Dorking.

Neil Williams wrote:
   :

> The sound of old-style clasp brakes, especially when accompanied by a
> nice bit of perfectly-judged full-service positive braking from
> linespeed to a smooth stand at exactly the right point on the platform
> in one motion.


I'd forgotten that sound; on MKI's you knew you were getting to a 
station when you heard the brakes come on.

Anyway, I'd like to add that 323 noise to the list, partially to annoy 
whoever had it on his worst trains list, but mostly because it reminds 
me of a holiday in Amsterdam. Or maybe it was Ashburys.

"Thomas"  wrote in message news:3mlnvpF17f3qdU1@individual.net...

>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away
>


In no particular order..
1. Singing rails- I dont know what the correct term is- The noise the rails 
make when a train approaches.
2. This may sound a strange one-87/ MK III coaches slowing down into 
Piccadilly (or any station)- The strange 'quacking' sound from under bogies.
3. A 'Rat' ticking over

On 19 Aug 2005 10:31:56 -0700, gregdash@hotmail.com wrote:



>The sound of a 37 opening up from Ely station away in the distance with
>a heavy train and passing my signalbox at full scream.  The sound of
>the deafening growl, levers crashing back, block bells ringing and a
>rush of clickety clack as the 12 carriages hurry past on their way to
>London.  
>
>All now a distant memory... :-(
>
>Greg


And when the heating's turned off at Bishops Stortford you start
freezing - ah the joys of late trains to Liverpool Street.

G

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:42:30 +0100, Simon Hoadley 
wrote:


>Thomas wrote:
>> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
>> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
>> into Charing X
>> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 
>> 


A4 chime whistle in the distance

Westinghouse pump on O2s on IOW

Any railway servant addressing me as 'Sir' - and meaning it.

Tony

Thomas wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 
> 
> 

Can't resist this thread. In no special order...

1. The clank-clank-clank of wagons going over retarders. I grew up with 
this as an almost constant soundtrack to my childhood. When they were 
ripped out the silence was deafening. Everyday was like Sunday.

2. The horn on an S.R. unit/ED (parp!).

3. The tick-ah-tick-ah-tick-ah of an EMU compressor running. And when it 
stopped during a station stop and everything went quiet wasn't there 
always someone who'd remark (half in jest): "it's broken down".

4. A Class 26 ticking over. Hearing each cylinder fire individually.

AW

Any steam loco at work.

The "dinka, dinka, dinka, dinka, dinka....." of the air compressors
recharging on any SR or BR(S) emu.

The sound of a North American steam chime whistle, there's northing like
that haunting sound, especially late at night.


--
Cheers
Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/

"matt"  wrote in message
news:de58pp$h8q$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...

> Neil Williams wrote:
>    :
> > The sound of old-style clasp brakes, especially when accompanied by a
> > nice bit of perfectly-judged full-service positive braking from
> > linespeed to a smooth stand at exactly the right point on the platform
> > in one motion.
>
> I'd forgotten that sound; on MKI's you knew you were getting to a
> station when you heard the brakes come on.


The reminds that I particularly like the sound of the vac being dropped from
21" down to zero (while stationary), that nice sort of tinkle-tinkle-clunk
noise that designates "it is now easy to get the hand-brake on"!


-- 
Ronnie
--
Have a great day...
....Have a Great Central day.
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AW wrote:


> 4. A Class 26 ticking over. Hearing each cylinder fire 
> individually.

------------------------------

Better still, AW...

Dozing in a sleeper berth at Perth or Inverness,
listening to a whole bunch of Class 26s ticking over
all night long, as an anti-frost precaution.

To add to that, my son Paul, now 45, was at Junior school
in the late 1960s when the Class 24s arrived in strength
in and around N-le-W. He and his sub-teen mates soon gave
these the nickname 'Bimperty-Bims', later shortened to
'Bimmies'. Anybody who remembers a Cl 24's tick-over sound
will surely appreciate the accuracy of those two nicknames.

There was a five-arm + 2 shunt arms/discs bracketed signal
opposite our house at the top of Vulcan Bank, where freight
trains headed north were often held for a few minutes when
Earlestown triangle was busy with passenger trains.

I can (recollectively) hear a Class 24 right here and now:
"Bim - Bim - Bim - Bimperty-Bim - Bim - Bim" ... ad infinitum!

Ain't nostalgia great!!!


Regards,

DigitisED  (Eddie Bellass)

Mythical Merseyside, in the Occupied Territories
of Old Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:11:05 +0100, Sio wrote:


> 3. A 'Rat' ticking over


Then you need to visit http://www.srpsdiesel.com/
-- 
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683775.html
(144 014 at Knaresborough, 1 Aug 1998)

I heard a sound the other day that started off promisingly, but in the
end I didn't much enjoy.

I was on the south end of Crewe platform 6, and in the distance to the
north I heard the sound of a pair of 20's. It grew louder as they
approached. And it continued as they passed by, unseen, on the
Independent line...

-- 
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9632919.html
(40 068 at Wolverhampton, 1979)

For me it has to be the rear power car of a HST departing at full
power. Everytime I get off at Truro I always wait on the platform for
the train to leave, purely to hear that scream.

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:44:23 +0100, "Thomas"  wrote:


>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>1: The scream of an HST loco.
>2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
>into Charing X
>3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 
>


A Deltic starting at the Cross. Or indeed, shutting down. Or charging
past at full tilt across the Fens where all you can hear is a
high-pitched hum for about a minute or so before.

A4 chime whistle.

Perhaps my favourite though, the sound of a Class 25 labouring on a
slow goods on a cold, dark night in the distance, when they made guest
appearances on the ECML. Magic!

The sound of an End of Shift being printed by a SPORTIS.

Also, the whistle coming from the air suspension on a mkIII as the train
unloads.

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"Chris Tolley"  wrote in message 
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>
> I heard a sound the other day that started off promisingly, but in the
> end I didn't much enjoy.
>
> I was on the south end of Crewe platform 6, and in the distance to the
> north I heard the sound of a pair of 20's. It grew louder as they
> approached. And it continued as they passed by, unseen, on the
> Independent line...


The Independant line..?  It was the "Muck Hole" when I first went there in 
1962.

Anyway, back to the sounds.......

1. The ringing of the bells in Bolton Signal Box.

2. The sound of a Black Five scrambling for grip leaving Bolton in the rain.

3. The sound of a Coronation Pacific at full speed going North through Wigan 
Northwestern as seen from the platform at Wallgate.

KW

Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as
zerosignal@ntlworld.com gently breathed:


>>From the past: A 303;  the hiss of the brakes being released, the
>compressor starts its whiny rythmic thump, which slows a bit when the
>power is applied and you get that violent jolt forward; the creaking
>and groaning of the rubbing plates, the angry growl from the
>transformers spitting on/off until the deep whine from the traction
>motors kicks in. Then you get the hammer of the obligatory wheelflats
>as you pick up speed, the whine turns to a manic scream as you hit
>55mph and go over some jointed track.. clackety clack, all the
>quarterlight windows open, air rushing in, f*cking HELLFIRE!


Snap!  Agreed completely, and beautifully put!


>Present day : The three axled clatter of a 37 galloping over jointed
>track on the west highland line, followed by a snorting rasping burst
>of hell from the exhausts, and the scream from the turbos echoing
>accross Rannoch moor while I'm hanging half my body out of a droplight
>behind it.


Done that on an SRPS railtour many times.  Except replace the
window-hanging with relaxing in the absolute luxury of a Mk1 First Class
compartment, compartment window, corridor window, and compartment door
drop-light all wide open.  Absolute bliss...

NP: Inkubus Sukkubus - Belladonna And Aconite
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The number of diesel and electric sounds is just unbelievable.  Guess that
comes from being an almost Old Fart who did his train-spotting in the early
to mid 1960s, when railways were railways, not plastic tubes styled and
painted to look like aircraft.


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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:44:23 +0100, "Thomas"  wrote:


>I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
>1: The scream of an HST loco.
>2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
>into Charing X
>3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 


1. The escape of air as the brakes are evacuated at the end of a
long shift.

2. The escape of steam from the water boiler in the rest room as you
make your well deserved cup of tea

3. The foreman's voice saying "you can go now" when sitting spare.

4.  The sounds of the resistors in the equipment cabinet when a
standard stock (underground) motor car was being notched up.

5.  The sound of four thumper engines all straining hard as a 12 car
Hastings stock train pulling away from Orpington passed my bedroom
window in Chelsfield.

6. The eerie sound made by the whistle of a rake of "F" stock as
they entered the Thames tunnel from Wapping.

That's enough to be getting on with.



>


-- 
Bill Hayles
http://www.rossrail.com
md@rossrail.com

On 19 Aug 2005 15:59:11 -0700, Alex W wrote:


> For me it has to be the rear power car of a HST departing at full
> power.


Even if you should've been on that train?

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Pyromancer wrote:

> >>From the past: A 303;  <snip> air rushing in, f*cking HELLFIRE!
>
> Snap!  Agreed completely, and beautifully put!


And an experience lost forever, unlike the steam before it.

Who wants to give me a million quid so I can restore 311103 to running
condition? :-)


> >Present day : The three axled clatter of a 37 <snip>
>
> Done that on an SRPS railtour many times.  Except replace the
> window-hanging with relaxing in the absolute luxury of a Mk1 First Class
> compartment, compartment window, corridor window, and compartment door
> drop-light all wide open.  Absolute bliss...


If it weren't for all the wee idiots on the SRPSs now, running around
skelped off their faces on Kronenbourg while giving people dogs abuse
for no reason, I'd agree!

Cheers,

David

1) Class 56 hauling several thousands of tonnes up the bank at Barnetby
on a quiet night.
2) Any 37 working hard on a heavy freight train.
3) 20901 or 20154 on full power at the East Lancs Railway diesel gala.
(when hanging out of the front window)
4) D200 on at the NYMR diesel gala thrashing up the incline from
Grosmont-Goathland on load 9 with 50027 DIT at the rear.

And many more.

Worst sounds:
1) Any second generation or new-build DMU powering up.
2) Class 66 at tickover.
3) A class 323 accelerating.

crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote: 


> Sitting in my grandma's back garden on a hot afternoon listening to the
> sound of the local 4F 0-6-0 shunting in the goods yard.

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                /   _    \     \      ||
               /    |\____\     \     ||
              /     | | | |\____/     ||
             /       \|_|_|/   |     _||
            /  /  \            |____| ||
           /   |   |           |      --|
           |   |   |           |____  --|
    * _    |  |_|_|_|          |     \-/
*-- _--\ _ \                  |      ||
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<nostalgia>
1. Two GWR Class 2021 0-6-0PTs, hauling 16 stone wagons plus brake van
from Whitecliffe Quarry to Coleford.

2.  The rasping sound of a Class 101 DMU as it changes gear and the
engines are on full throttle.

3.  The sound of a pre-1938 LT Underground train, as the compressor
cuts in after a stop, and the doors open and close. A human voice
shouts "Mind the Doors" in between.

4.  The clatter of a GWR autocoach and 0-4-2T heading down the Soudley
Valley.
</nostalgia>
-- 
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org

Terry Harper wrote:

>
> 2.  The rasping sound of a Class 101 DMU as it changes gear and the
> engines are on full throttle.
>



Oh Dear, The sound of the next driver when the gear belts wont take up
any more.
"B@$t@rD"

crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote: 


> Sitting in my grandma's back garden on a hot afternoon listening to the
> sound of the local 4F 0-6-0 shunting in the goods yard.

                    /|  /|      _____________________
                    ||__||     |                     |
                   /   O O\__  |    PLEASE DO NOT    |
                  /          \ |   FEED THE TROLLS   |
                 /      \     \|_____________________|
                /   _    \     \      ||
               /    |\____\     \     ||
              /     | | | |\____/     ||
             /       \|_|_|/   |     _||
            /  /  \            |____| ||
           /   |   |           |      --|
           |   |   |           |____  --|
    * _    |  |_|_|_|          |     \-/
*-- _--\ _ \                  |      ||
   /  _     \\        |        /      `
*  /   \_ /- |       |       |
   *      ___ C_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c____________

crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> You are dead right about the V2s. I never heard many as a child, not
> living close to the main line but I have some of Peter Handfords
> recordings of them. The stereo recordings on the Waverley route are
> wonderful, not least because they start with the train about 2 miles
> away and last around 5 minutes.


My all time favourite of his is V2 'Coldstreamer' climbing to
Whitrope...
Even non-railway buffs admit it's impressive!

Another favourite is Transacord's 'Triumph of an A4 Pacific'.
Recorded from the leading coach as Bill Hoole whips 'Sir Nigel'up to
112mph on the descent of Stoke, in 1959.

Cheers
Robt P.

In message , Robt P 
 writes

>
>crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> You are dead right about the V2s. I never heard many as a child, not
>> living close to the main line but I have some of Peter Handfords
>> recordings of them. The stereo recordings on the Waverley route are
>> wonderful, not least because they start with the train about 2 miles
>> away and last around 5 minutes.
>
>My all time favourite of his is V2 'Coldstreamer' climbing to
>Whitrope...
>Even non-railway buffs admit it's impressive!
>
>Another favourite is Transacord's 'Triumph of an A4 Pacific'.
>Recorded from the leading coach as Bill Hoole whips 'Sir Nigel'up to
>112mph on the descent of Stoke, in 1959.
>
>Cheers
>Robt P.
>

Any idea where you can buy some of these recordings?
-- 
Regards,

James Christie

"Luck is my middle name," he said, indistinctly.
"Mind you, my first name is Bad."

What was wrong with that reply?

There was no irony meant.

My grandma's house backed onto the railway and was about 150 yards from
the station. I was very fond of her, and spent many an afternoon
playing in her garden. The sounds of the local freight train shunting
in the goods yard were a regular feature of those afternoons - clanking
of buffers, the sharp exhaust for a few seconds, squealing of wheels
over curves into sidings.  I can imagine it all as if it was yesterday,
even if it was 50 years ago.

If that is what it takes to be a troll, then so be it. However, if your
childish attempt at making me stop posting is referring to some of my
other more forcible expressions of opinion - then not only are you
going to fail miserably, but you will only serve to convince me that my
original opinions were in fact correct.

crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:


> What was wrong with that reply?


Nothing. Someone with a strange sense of humour
seems to enjoy sending out that 'don't feed the trolls'
at random.

Charlie

James Christie wrote:

> In message , Robt P
>  writes
> >
> >crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> >> You are dead right about the V2s. I never heard many as a child, not
> >> living close to the main line but I have some of Peter Handfords
> >> recordings of them. The stereo recordings on the Waverley route are
> >> wonderful, not least because they start with the train about 2 miles
> >> away and last around 5 minutes.
> >
> >My all time favourite of his is V2 'Coldstreamer' climbing to
> >Whitrope...
> >Even non-railway buffs admit it's impressive!
> >
> >Another favourite is Transacord's 'Triumph of an A4 Pacific'.
> >Recorded from the leading coach as Bill Hoole whips 'Sir Nigel'up to
> >112mph on the descent of Stoke, in 1959.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Robt P.
> >
> Any idea where you can buy some of these recordings?


http://www.transportdiversions.com/catalog.asp?subject=railways&media=cd%7Caudio+cassette

'LNER' [Page 1] should have V2 recordings..
'Triumph of an A4 Pacific' is for sale on Page 2.

Cheers
Robt P.

Charlie Hulme wrote:


> Nothing. Someone with a strange sense of humour
> seems to enjoy sending out that 'don't feed the trolls'
> at random.


They're not at random though. They all seem to be at Crazy Horse, and
I can't for the life of me see what (s)he has done to annoy anyone -
most of the posts in question look pretty innocuous.

The only suggestion I can make is that it is because Crazy Horse
hasn't yet worked out how to beat Google at its own game - so again, a
tip for all those reading on Gooogle Gropes:

You'll notice that everyone else quotes some or all of the message
they are replying to at the top of their reply. This is so that we can
all see the context for their reply - otherwise it's just a statement
that probably doesn't mean a lot on its own. Some people read
thousands of messages on several newsgroups every day, and so won't
remember every message they've read even in the last 24 hours, and
won't be bothered to hunt around to find the previous message - if a
reply is given without any quotes or context, they will just skip it
and move on to the next one.

To get round this, you _can_ get Goooogle to quote the previous
message properly in your reply. Rather than doing the obvious thing
and clicking the "reply" link at the bottom of the message, click the
"options" button at the top of the message, then click "reply" in the
box that opens up there. This will now quote the previous message. You
should go through and delete anything that isn't relevant to your
reply, to help us see exactly what it is you are replying to. In a
long message like this one, that is particularly important - your
reply might mean something different, depending on which paragraph it
is attached to!

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:26:36 GMT, wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil
Williams) wrote:


>
>The audible "clunk" of the tap-changer on an older DB E-Lok as it
>hauls said train away from said station at N in the morning.


How about the "tune" which various European operators' Tauri play when
starting off. I've no idea what makes the noise, but it's distinctive.
-- 
Arthur Figgis                Surrey, UK

The sound of a 450 as it approaches Twickenham to take me home on a Friday
night! : )

James Christie wrote:

> In message , Robt P
>  writes
> >
> >crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> >> You are dead right about the V2s. I never heard many as a child, not
> >> living close to the main line but I have some of Peter Handfords
> >> recordings of them. The stereo recordings on the Waverley route are
> >> wonderful, not least because they start with the train about 2 miles
> >> away and last around 5 minutes.
> >
> >My all time favourite of his is V2 'Coldstreamer' climbing to
> >Whitrope...
> >Even non-railway buffs admit it's impressive!
> >
> >Another favourite is Transacord's 'Triumph of an A4 Pacific'.
> >Recorded from the leading coach as Bill Hoole whips 'Sir Nigel'up to
> >112mph on the descent of Stoke, in 1959.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Robt P.
> >
> Any idea where you can buy some of these recordings?
> --
> Regards,
>
> James Christie
>
> "Luck is my middle name," he said, indistinctly.
> "Mind you, my first name is Bad."


Try

http://www.ebay.co.uk/

It worked for me.

Mm...

I can hear the clunk of the block spring in Northallerton SB now !

Then there's the block bell from Bowesfield ringing in Picton SB and my wife
jumping a mile when it happened ;)  Was on a call out and offered to show
round the box before we went for a meal in the Station Inn across the LC!

The clunk and rattle of lever frames being used in a mechanical SB, and the
points & signals etc...

The pissmanuncriation of place names by automated station announcements
produced darn sarf and the totally incomprehensible ones of none automated
ones on a station as a train is either starting off or ripping through at
speed...

A pair of 37's starting off on the sandite train after dropping of someone on
plat 3 in York Station at 10:12 on 11th Nov 04, and the echo around the shed
;)  Sadly poor quality 7.2MB AVI available from the old digital stills camera
if anyone wants to join me ?!


-- 
Nick

All my own comments !

Worked on the Signalling in the North East since 1983 !

http://www.whelan.me.uk
nrw7 on Yahoo messenger & nickw7coc on MSN Messenger too !

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:38:07 +0100, Nick
<nick_w7coc@no-go.ya_ho.o.aw_ay.con.invalid> wrote:


>The pissmanuncriation of place names by automated station announcements
>produced darn sarf and the totally incomprehensible ones of none automated
>ones on a station as a train is either starting off or ripping through at
>speed...


The female Preston announcer who used to sing the list of stations.
Made the station feel a very friendly place at silly times of the
evening.

The almost-German-style "Passengers on platform 6 please board the
train and close the doors, this train is now ready to depart" that you
used to hear at Preston before the Mk3s died out.

Neil

-- 
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When replying please use neil at the above domain
'wensleydale' is a spam trap and is not read.

Thomas wrote:

> I don't know if this has been brought up before but these are mine:
> 1: The scream of an HST loco.
> 2: An old slammer screeching and clunking its way across Hungerford Bridge 
> into Charing X
> 3: The futuristic sounding whine/squeak of a 450 pulling away 


Sorry to resurect an old thread, but one sound is missing from the 
suggestions:

The ticking of those digital clocks that until a few years ago were 
everyewhere (at least in the NSE area).  They way they go 
TICK-tick-tick-TICK-tick-tick-TICK-tick-tick-clater..., with the 
loudness of the tick depending on how many "pixels" have to change.  For 
a while, I used to be waiting on Rochester station for the 20.05, or 
something, and always enjoyed 19.59.59 ticking over to 20.00.00, as on 
many of these clocks (not all), the digits changed in succession (rather 
than all at once).

Robin

Eddie Bellass wrote:


> I can (recollectively) hear a Class 24 right here and now:
> "Bim - Bim - Bim - Bimperty-Bim - Bim - Bim" ... ad infinitum!


It's the Crazy Frog!

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R.C. Payne wrote:


> Sorry to resurect an old thread, but one sound is missing from the 
> suggestions:
> 
> The ticking of those digital clocks that until a few years ago were 
> everyewhere (at least in the NSE area).


I've not seen anyone mention Solari boards either!

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> R.C. Payne wrote:
>
>> Sorry to resurect an old thread, but one sound is missing from the
>> suggestions:
>>
>> The ticking of those digital clocks that until a few years ago were
>> everyewhere (at least in the NSE area).
>
> I've not seen anyone mention Solari boards either!


DOes victoria still have them? I havn't been there for a few years..

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:11:03 +0100, "Thomas"  wrote:


>DOes victoria still have them? I havn't been there for a few years.. 


No, it now has (since a few months ago) a full-size LED display, with
more or less the same layout as the Solari it replaced, not dissimilar
to that at Euston.

Neil

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"Stevie D"  wrote in message
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> Eddie Bellass wrote:
>
> > I can (recollectively) hear a Class 24 right here and now:
> > "Bim - Bim - Bim - Bimperty-Bim - Bim - Bim" ... ad infinitum!
>
> It's the Crazy Frog!


Surely the Crazy Rat?

Have you any idea of the reference number of the Waverly route
recording?

TIA.