sammyboy Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I was thinking over the last few days whilst getting on with life/work, ect... I thought just what is my or your favourite sound or noise from the railways. Is it the sound of a approaching steam locomotive, a diesel horn, the clickety-clack of the train wheels over the rail joints, or something else altogether?? One of my favourites is the whining noise as an electric loco or unit accelerates!! Sam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Thinking back to the fifties my grandparents backed onto a shunting yard. My abiding memory is of loose shunting - something you don't hear now. That's one of my favourite sounds, Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted January 22, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2013 Brush type 4 at full throttle. Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 An A4 chime whistle. Wonderful memories of hearing the whistle long before the express came into view.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 A steam locomotive slipping as it pulls away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marton Junction Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The squeal of flanges for me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Brittania chime whistle, leaving Wigan NW northbound every night at 10.00 pm. Sending me to sleep. Deltic at 100mph roaring through Thirsk. As GordonS says, this. Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted January 22, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2013 Close tie between the wheels on the joints of the whistle of the guard telling us that the journey is starting. I'm not sure that I could pick between them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marton Junction Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Lying in bed as a child and hearing northbound expresses running through the points at the north end of Rugby station and the unmistakeable sound of a 'Roarer' starting up under the roof of Rugby station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 A Deltic climbing to Stoke Summit with an up train. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The squeal of flanges for me!I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyboy Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 I do like Kris' comments of the sound of the guards whistle which means the journey is going to get underway any second now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm81 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The familiar sound of a 142 pulling away from the local station then as it passes my house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The chime whistle on Undeground trains - always sounds a little asmatic to me! XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted January 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2013 The whine of an EMU traction motor as it notches up. The slam of a (Mark 1) carriage door. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted January 22, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2013 The sound of a mechanical signal box; bells, clanking levers and the sound of the semaphore signals. A happy memory came from my time living in Totnes in the 1990s. Double-headed class 37s on the Devon banks...on a still winter's night, the sound carried for miles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gra Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 A Deltic climbing to Stoke Summit with an up train. Yes it has to be a Deltic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Semaphore Signal clatter as the bobby 'throws' (naughty) the lever back into the on position - best on a faraway distant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted January 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2013 Lying in a sleeper coach and listening to the train moving through the night and the subdued voices of people talking in the corridor. (preferably somewhere warm and exotic, and preferably with noone snoring nearby!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev_Lewis Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 For me it has to be a GWR whistle. Anybody who's heard pannier tank 9681's whistle echo down the valley as it approaches Norchard on the Dean Forest Railway will know the exact sound that will always put a smile on my face. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted January 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2013 I've loved the sound of a Bulleid whistle for nearly 60 years now. I was born and bred in Bishopstoke, just across the fields from Eastleigh. One of my earliest memories is of being tucked up in bed in the evening and listening to that magical sound rolling across as Bulleid - hauled expresses sped through. Even now, when I get to drive a Bulleid on the Mid Hants and hang on the whistle it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up - fabulous sound. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The unmistakeable snarl, deepening to a throbbing roar, of a class 50, carried across the dreaming spires of Oxford on a misty morning as it accelerates a Thames Valley commuter train away towards Radley; the urgent, demanding, long-drawn out two-tone warning blast of an HST running flat out over Foxhall Junction and non-stop through platform 2 at Didcot (that one has been tingling my spine for 37 years so far, and it still had the same effect yesterday - it makes me grin from ear to ear like an idiot); the extraordinary eardrum rattling 2 cylinder roar of a Romney pacific working hard into speed, with chime whistle to the fore - Dr Syn is the best of all; a double-chimney Castle (either 7029 or 5043 - both superb machines) in full cry. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger440 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The unmistakeable snarl, deepening to a throbbing roar, of a class 50, David This ^^^^^ Nothing else compares Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 The rasp of a DMU exhaust - 1970's style........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 A Deltic climbing to Stoke Summit with an up train. Or alternatively, a Cl.56 or Cl.58 (take your pick) marching its train of 42 empty MGR hoppers past Toton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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