august 4th 2011, 18.10, steam locomotive arrives at Tan-Y-Bwlch station.wav by crosbychris

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crosbychris

January 5th, 2014

Now this is one of my favourite recordings.
This is a true binaural recording of a steam locomotive arriving at Tan-Y-Bwlch railway station on the Ffestiniog steam railway in west Wales, UK.
The train whistles as it approaches and then passes by my position before coming to a halt. The railway guard also walks past asking for tickets and then shouts the station name as the train stops.
It was a calm and dry day, giving perfect recording conditions as the 18:10 to Porthmadog passed.
The Ffestiniog railway's website can be found here:
http://www.festrail.co.uk

Recording date: 2011/08/04
Recording location: Tan-Y-Bwlch, the vale of Ffestiniog, Wales, UK.
Recording equipment: The Sound Professional's head mounted binaural microphones, into the Olympus DM5 digital recorder. .

Comments

VivaZeBone 1 year, 11 months ago

Good God, this almost had me ducking for cover - listen on headphones!!!
guineaman 2 years, 12 months ago

This is beautiful thanks!
konakaboom 5 years, 6 months ago

This is a nice recording and I like it a lot but I am not seeing any real advantage of Binaural over a good ORTF setup.
Harbour11 5 years, 10 months ago

This is lovely. Really puts you there. Well done.