Old locos are so loud

[Harbornite]

You may have seen this already, but tingle away:

Good find, thanks for posting.

 

[muddythefish]

Best memories are from many moons ago living within earshot of the Blackburn - Hellifield line and listening to the overnight freights struggling up Wilpshire bank from the north and Brownhill incline from the south. My goodness it was busy - trains both ways every 10 minutes or so until well into the small hours when I finally fell asleep. My kingdom for a time machine.

Steam was always fantastic of course (especially the 9Fs) but my abiding memory is of the EE Type 4s (as we knew them), then later the D400s. What a fantastic noise they made in the night air. The clanking of the wagonload freight on the bullhead track was good too.

On the WR, Hymeks, Westerns and Warship made superb sounds, especially the Hymeks on the Milford Haven line with a big tanker train. Unforgettable. And the Deltics of course.

Weirdest loco for sight and sound were the MetroVic Co-Bos. Saw one pulling a freight through Carlisle Citadel circa 1967. You don't forget things like that. There is one preserved I believe - would love to see it working again.

 

[Cowley]

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That was excellent.

 

[Silverlink]

It’s good to have locos these days that are loud as nearly all new stock are silent and have no character to them at all.

 

[fowler9]

Best memories are from many moons ago living within earshot of the Blackburn - Hellifield line and listening to the overnight freights struggling up Wilpshire bank from the north and Brownhill incline from the south. My goodness it was busy - trains both ways every 10 minutes or so until well into the small hours when I finally fell asleep. My kingdom for a time machine.

Steam was always fantastic of course (especially the 9Fs) but my abiding memory is of the EE Type 4s (as we knew them), then later the D400s. What a fantastic noise they made in the night air. The clanking of the wagonload freight on the bullhead track was good too.

On the WR, Hymeks, Westerns and Warship made superb sounds, especially the Hymeks on the Milford Haven line with a big tanker train. Unforgettable. And the Deltics of course.

Weirdest loco for sight and sound were the MetroVic Co-Bos. Saw one pulling a freight through Carlisle Citadel circa 1967. You don't forget things like that. There is one preserved I believe - would love to see it working again.

Brilliant little read that mate. Apart from a few years at Bradford Uni I have always lived right by the railway. I loved the noises through the night. It never kept me awake like it does for some, kind of lulled me to sleep.

 

[djpontrack]

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Thanks for that GusB. It certainly brought back a few memories.

 

[Welly]

I miss the Valenta howl. I remember seeing and hearing a HST departing from Paddington on full bore - the howl and thick smoke trails!

 

[Grannyjoans]

It’s good to have locos these days that are loud as nearly all new stock are silent and have no character to them at all

stock that makes annoying noises (like the squeaky brakes on the 180's & 800's), stock that makes an absolute racket but not a noise worth listening to (e.g. ten car Voyager), loud dreary robotic announcements on stations, repetitive robot announcements on trains, that's what you get today.

A good loud loco with loads of character, is such a great relief from all the usual more modern annoying "noise pollution" around too many stations today.

 

[AC47461]

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Fantastic stuff

 

[TwistedMentat]

stock that makes annoying noises (like the squeaky brakes on the 180's & 800's), stock that makes an absolute racket but not a noise worth listening to (e.g. ten car Voyager), loud dreary robotic announcements on stations, repetitive robot announcements on trains, that's what you get today.

A good loud loco with loads of character, is such a great relief from all the usual more modern annoying "noise pollution" around too many stations today.

Chances are a lot of that annoying noise pollution you're mentioning was just hidden by the overly loud locos.

Personally I'm happy to see the end of overly loud trains. They're great as a one off thing but having to put up with that noise day after day is just irritating.

I'm just as happy to see the end of diesel buses and trucks due to the noise.

 

[fowler9]

Chances are a lot of that annoying noise pollution you're mentioning was just hidden by the overly loud locos.

Personally I'm happy to see the end of overly loud trains. They're great as a one off thing but having to put up with that noise day after day is just irritating.

I'm just as happy to see the end of diesel buses and trucks due to the noise.

It's all very personal. I would rather put up with a few overly loud trains or even planes where I live than the fella next door starting up his car half an hour before he leaves for work. Given he isn't the only person in the road that does it I'll take the occasionally overloud train.

 

[theageofthetra]

It's all very personal. I would rather put up with a few overly loud trains or even planes where I live than the fella next door starting up his car half an hour before he leaves for work. Given he isn't the only person in the road that does it I'll take the occasionally overloud train.

Yes reminds me of the decorator next door to my parents who became a proud owner of a mostly rust ex BT Maestro van fitted with the very early Perkins atmo direct injection.

That starting up on a cold morning morning would rival a Deltic. Similar blue haze too.

 

[Spartacus]

One of my favourite memories was walking under Ribblehead viaduct and hearing the scream of an engine being wound up at Ribblehead: my first thought was that that it was a 56, but it quickly became obvious that it must be a HST, so I legged it as fast as I could to enable me to see it pass over the top!

I can't complain where I am now, 185s aren't exactly quiet as far as DMUs go (I remember being able to easily tell them from 158s at night from my flat, and we're soon to get 68s which should be fun!

 

[brel york]

I distinctly remember laying in bed as a kid in the 1970s in york and hearing the locos arriving / leaving york dringhouses yard , it’s got to be two mile as the crow flies from dringhouses yard to fulford , if the wind was right you could smell the chocolate from terrys factory too , sadly both long gone

 

[Andyjs247]

Living as I do in earshot of the Chiltern mainline in Bicester the most noticeable sounds are those of pairs of 20s on ‘S’ stock moves between Derby or Old Dalby and West Ruislip. Less common but very noticeable are any 37s on test trains.

The 68s are regulars, several times a day, but the most notable of these is a Sunday night northbound ECS. During the day even they tend to blend in with the general ambient sounds of daily living; particularly those that are not stopping. But when I’m out and about on my way to work the morning flyer from Oxford accelerating up the chord and onto the main line can then be heard for miles.