20th November 2018: Deltic highlights compilation double CD: Roaring 55s.
10th October 2018, new releases of HST albums: Valenta Valediction by Bob Mullins and 2 Miles per Minute by Ian Strange.
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Stereo recordings of preserved Deltics on the main line during 1997 to 2002.
Featuring D9000, D9009 and 55019.
Reproduced from digital mini-disc original recordings and some hi-fi stereo cassette-tapes.
Running time 80 minutes
Highlights include:
*** D9000 suffers an over-load cut-out on Miles Platting Bank.
*** In D9009's cab departing Peterborough.
*** Idling at the Kings Cross buffer-stops.
*** Blasting over the Pennines (on-train).
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Stereo recordings of preserved Deltics on the main line during 1998 to 2002.
Featuring D9000, D9009 and 9016.
Reproduced from digital mini-disc original recordings.
Running time 75 minutes
Highlights include:
*** D9000 on the Settle and Carlisle line, on-train (jointed rails).
*** 9016's debut tour at Stoke, Stafford and York.
*** D9000 skirting around London on its way to Ramsgate (for Virgin Trains).
*** In D9000's front cab at Didcot and Oxford.
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Stereo recordings of classic diesels (and some whining electrics) during 1996 to 2005.
Classes 31, 33, 37, 40, 46, 47, 55, 58, 60, 66, 67, 87, HST (and bubble-car!) on the main line.
Classes 17, 20, 24, 35, 42, 52, 55 and 56 on preserved lines.
Reproduced from digital mini-disc original recordings and some hi-fi stereo cassette-tapes.
Running time 80 minutes
Highlights include:
*** 55002 on the East Lancs.
*** Hymek on the Great Central.
*** Busy action at Crewe with 37s and 47s.
*** Final Travelling Post Office at Derby, 2004 (class 67).
*** Class 87 "starts up" only to find its horn is stuck on!
*** Horns echoing in the night at Tallington - "bubble-car", class 66 and class 40.
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Archive sounds of Deltics and other classic diesels in BR service, recorded by David Hier, Ian Strange and Gary Thornton.
Featuring classes 06, 20, 25, 31, 40, 45, 47, 50 and 55.
Recorded during 1978 to 1984.
Running time 80 minutes
Highlights include:
*** Several on-train Deltic runs, blasting away from station stops.
*** 55011 rolling into Peterborough on fire, beginning a whole sequence of events.
*** Class 40 'thrash'.
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Archive sounds of Deltics and other classic diesels in BR service, recorded by Ian Strange and Gary Thornton.
Featuring classes 08, 20, 27, 31, 37, 40, 45, 47, 50, 55, 56 and DMU (plus an 87 electric).
Recorded during 1978 to 1984.
Running time 80 minutes
Highlights include:
*** Memories from Healey Mills freight yard.
*** Spirited Deltic departures.
*** Whistlers in action (on-train and lineside).
*** Peaks galore at Leicester.
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English Electric 4-stroke diesel loco recordings, both main line and preserved railways.
State-of-the-art recording quality (plus 3 archive tracks from stereo cassette by Bob Mullins).
Recorded during 2008 to 2014 (except 3 archive recordings from the 1980s). Running time 70 minutes
Classes 09, 20, 31, 37, 40 and 50 on the main line.
Classes 20, 31, 37, and 50 on preserved lines.
Highlights include:
** A lovely, long sequence of 4 class 20s at Melton Mowbray collecting new LUL stock from the Old Dalby test track.
** Nostalgic sounds of an 09 shunting back in 1983.
** Action from the GCR and SVR galas.
** 37s thrashing away on railtours including another assault on the Lickey.
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Classic diesel loco recordings, both main line and preserved railways plus some modern loco action.
State-of-the-art recording quality
Recorded during 2009 to 2014. Running time 78 minutes
Classes 20, 31, 37, 47, 52, 56, 60, 66, 67, 70, and even a Windhoff maintenance machine, on the main line.
Classes 24, 27, 33, 45, 47 and 52 (also a Warship heard briefly) on preserved lines
Highlights include:
** Western Champion heard approaching for over 4 minutes, as church bells ring out in the distance.
** A shiny new class 70 storms by on a freightliner.
** A class 56 tackles Stoke Bank at night.
** Diesel action at the GCR and SVR galas.
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Recorded during 2000 to 2014.
Running time 70 minutes
Classic steam engine recordings, both on the main line and the preserved Great Central Railway.
Featuring "Duchess of Sutherland", "Oliver Cromwell", "Tornado", "Sir Lamiel", "Union of South Africa", "Princess Elizabeth", "Tangmere", classes V2, 8F, 9F, and more.
Highlights include:
"Princess Elizabeth" storming the Lickey Incline, banked by 9600 and 7752.
9F accelerating out of Quorn and Woodhouse.
A Castle class blasts out of Leicester.
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State-of-the-art recording quality
Recorded during 2008 to 2011.
Running time 64 minutes
Deltic 55022 on the main line
55019 on the Great Central (running on both engines)
D9016 at Peak Rail including some unusual in-cab recordings
Highlights include atmospheric lineside sounds of 55022 tackling the Lickey and Stoke Bank. Plus a night-time recording at Holme Fen with an eerie silence so quiet that you can pin-point the moment when the drone comes into hearing range.
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State-of-the-art recording quality
Recorded during 2008 to 2012.
Running time 66 minutes
Classes 20, 31, 37, 40, 52, 56, 60 and a Hastings Unit on the main line
Classes 25, 27, 31, 33, 37, 45 and 55 on preserved lines
The ground-shaking quality can be appreciated when you play this on a good home stereo. Highlights include two assaults on the Lickey by pairs of 37s (one at night) that probably registered on nearby richter scales! Plus a Western on the Lickey and 20s at Stafford in the snow.
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Recorded during 2013.
Running time 73 minutes
Impressive sounds to get your furniture moving!
Featuring: Vulcan, B-17, Lancaster, Sea Fury, Typhoon (jet), Hurricane, Spitfire, P51 Mustang, Tucano, Hercules, Dakota, YAK 11, Tornado.
NO TALKING. NO MUSIC.
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Recorded during 1982 to 2012.
Running time 76 minutes
Amazing sounds of Merlin engined classic aircraft, plus the growl of a Shackleton, and the howl of a Vulcan.
Also blasts down a runway by an EE Lightning, a Victor and a Comet airliner. Plus a Shackleton having 3 of its engines fired up from cold.
NO TALKING!!! As with all my transport titles, I fill my CDs with engine sounds.
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Recorded during 1989 to 2007.
Running time 63 minutes
HSTs with their original screaming Valenta engines.
Breath-taking high-speed run-pasts, long approaches in the night, and station departures. On the ECML, WCML, and in and around Leicester, plus other locations.
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Recorded during 1983 to 2011.
Running time 67 minutes
The loudest highlights taken from my other diesel CDs (plus a few from my "Engines On Audio" title). Deltics and 37s predominate, but classes 20, 35, 40, 42, 46, 47, 50, 52 and 56 also feature.
Recordings include:
***Blasting through the tunnel at Ipswich behind D9000
***55022/50049 double-heading on the ECML, both on full power!
***37401 doing a standing start in the tunnel at Birmingham
***D345 (40145) launches its debut tour out of Birmingham New Street.
NOTE: All recordings on this CD also feature on other CDs in my range.
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