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august 2nd 2011, 18.30, steam locomotive leaves porthmadog station.wav

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crosbychris

January 5th, 2014

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the Ffestiniog railway

This is another recording on the Ffestiniog railway in west Wales, this time onboard 1 of the carriages of the 18:30 to Blaenau-Ffestiniog.
Here the train is heard leaving the terminus at Porthmadog's harbour station. Firstly the guard blows on his whistle, and the engine whistles and gives off steam before the train departs and begins to pick up speed.
The Ffestiniog railway's website can be found here:
http://www.festrail.co.uk
This would have been a true binaural recording, however I only had my head a little way out of the window, so the walls of the carriages confined the stereo image somewhat.

Recording date: 2011/08/02
Recording location: Harbour station, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales.
Recording equipment: The sound professional's head mounted binaural microphones, into the olympus DM5 digital recorder. .

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Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

1:34.362

File size

15.9 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Predulus

3 years, 6 months ago

thanks

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webmasterSVMRC

7 years ago

super sound so typical of British narrow gauge

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