railwaysounds.co.uk

Sounds

North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Vintage
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

Severn Valley Railway
To Dec 2007
2008

West Somerset Railway
Winter Festival Dec 2007
Spring Gala 2008

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Winter Gala Feb 2008

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RailwaySounds is a home for recordings from UK preserved railways, mostly from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Many are of steam locos but historic diesels are featured.

The recordings were made in two time periods - in the mid 1980s on the NYMR, and from 2004 onwards. 'Vintage' recordings from the NYMR have their own page featuring several locos not present on the line today, or no longer in operation.

Latest additions: NYMR 19th April 2008

Plans for 2008 include recording visits to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Severn Valley Railway, West Somerset Railway, Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway, East Lancs Railway and Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Given the vagaries of weather, passing traffic and aircraft, and how hard the locos are working, there can't be any guarantee on outcomes. Anything worthwhile will be added to the site.

The recordings can be played from the browser window or downloaded. Many of the recordings begin and end with a train in the distance, so the tracks may seem inaudible at start and end if you play them only through PC speakers. The best listening is with headphones, but be careful not to damage your hearing - passing locos can be very loud.

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Special thanks to Steve Dorrington for hosting this website.

All recordings on this site were made by the site owner. Recordings have been encoded in mp3 format at bit rates up to 160kBytes/sec and shortened to make them quicker to stream/download. Lower bit rates don't give a good result. File sizes can be more than 5MBytes, but even so the quality has suffered a bit in the process. That's life.

If you have a sound plug-in installed (eg Quicktime), Right click, then 'Open' to play a file. You may be prompted by your browser to 'Allow Active X content'. To download the sound files, right click, then 'Save Target As'.

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