Radio 4 - The Station

[tivoli]

Today at 11am on Radio 4. 24 hours in the life of Newcastle upon Tyne railway station (condensed to 30 mins!) may be of interest to some on IPlayer Radio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c45hq

A dynamic and powerful soundscape of Newcastle upon Tyne Central Station using location recordings to tell a story of twenty-four hours in the life of this station - from the spring solo of a robin at dawn on the street outside to the pounding roar of the heavy goods trains which thunder along the rails past deserted...

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Today at 11am on Radio 4. 24 hours in the life of Newcastle upon Tyne railway station (condensed to 30 mins!) may be of interest to some on IPlayer Radio.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c45hq

I caught it in the car. The guy making sound recordings was interesting.
The robin's singing was great, and the Sunderland supporters made a terrific din as they got off their train (were they complaining about being cooped up in a Pacer perhaps?).
He mentioned the buzzing of the OHLE being audible at night when it was quiet.
Some interesting detail about the architecture and day-to-day management of the station, and the staff were a credit to the place.

 

[142094]

Could have listened to that for another half an hour. Great work.

 

[DaveNewcastle]

Could have listened to that for another half an hour. Great work.

You can. I can tell you where you'd have to go to hear more of it . . . . its just along Collingwood Street and Neville Street.




The dispatcher's whistles and screeching wheels within that reverberant roof took me straight there.