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for UK steam railway locomotive sound recordings!
Over 400 mp3 recordings available here and at the steamsounds archive for free download.
Last updated :
22nd Oct 2009

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Latest Recordings :

NYMR Autumn Steam Gala

A few from the lineside

Scarborough Spa Express 2009

Summer Steam on the S&C

Email...

Email. Brilliant isn't it? Quick, convenient and best of all, no stamp required.
Mind you, it can also be a nightmare.
For example; there's someone out there who has sent me feedback messages no less than six times over the last few weeks, each of them getting more irate as, as far as he can tell, I'm ignoring him. Well, I'm not. I always repeat, always reply to feedback. I've replied to every one of his messages despite the fact that, obviously, he isn't getting them. I've even used an alternative email server to see if that gets through. The worse part of it is that I have no clue as to why my replies aren't reaching him.
From time to time I do get messages bounced, usually because the email address provided isn't correct but in many cases I get no indication that a message has been blocked. If I know that something has gone wrong I can try to do something about it but if there's no warning, as far as I know, my message has been delivered.
The chief culprit in this appears to be Hotmail. Other problem email providers are AOL, Yahoo and Google's email services and there's nothing I can do about it!
So, if you send me feedback or an enquiry about CDs; providing you use the web site forms I can be almost 100% certain that I will get your message and you can be 100% certain that I will reply. I always reply to feedback. ALWAYS!
Now, if you don't get a reply within a few days, please contact me again and I can try an alternative email server.
If you still don't get a reply you should check that the email address you are providing is correct and working; you can test it here, and it may help if you add steamsounds.org.uk to your email provider's whitelist. Or you could always just dump Hotmail!

Audio CDs available now

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Other Railway Sounds Web Sites Railway Audio CDs also available from:

UK Steam
Fleet Steam - Main line steam in North East Hampshire.
Steaming Around Britain's Railways - Photographs and sounds. A work in progress.

Railway Sounds - impressively high quality recordings from Allan Haighton.
German Steam
Dampfsound.de - The German equivalent of Steamsounds.
Australian Steam
Right Away! Railway Recordings - Plenty of down-under steam.
UK Diesel
BR Diesel Web - Recordings of almost every class.

Got a Railway sounds site? Get in touch!

Try Alan Robinson's Heritage Steam Archive. Here you will find a plethora of steam CDs to browse through. You are sure to find something of interest.
At Linda Jeffcoat's Steamy Sounds you will find two CDs of recordings from the NYMR & SVR, well worth a look.
For Australian steam sounds visit Tony Weber's web site. I have to say that Tony's are the best of recordings Australian steam locos I have heard!
For German steam CDs visit Jörg Dreckmann's excellent Dampfsound website.
Try the 34081 web site for a selection of audio CDs from Ian Bowskill.
You should consider visiting Andy Slater's BR Diesel Web site. Not just diesels, he has some steam recordings too.

If jigsaw puzzles are your thing, have a look at these from Cheatwell Games, there's one in particular that may appeal. Can you guess who produced the CD?
Not just audio CDs but there are some interesting DVDs available at SVS films.

If Binaural steam is your thing try these disks from Mike Skeet.
See, I don't mind giving the competition a plug!
Anybody else out there selling your own railway CDs? Please get in touch!
Train Sim Fan?
If you are a fan of Microsoft Train Simulator and like to hear well implemented sounds while driving, you may like to have a look at the Evesham Route which is the latest offering from Making Tracks. While I can't claim to be entirely responsible, some of my recordings were used in making the steam loco sounds with this route. And an excellent job they've done too!