"Beasts", "Monsters", "Hellfire!". If you understand this language then prepare to settle down at a drop-light window and soak up some sounds of the past.

Digitally processed mono archive recordings (added pseudo-stereo effect)

Recorded during 1980 to 1985.

Running time 74 minutes

Early 1980s nostalgia with classes 20, 25, 31, 37, 40, 45, 46, 47, 50, 55, 56 & HST in BR service during 1980 to 1985, heard mostly in the Midlands and Yorkshire.

Highlights include:
**46023 getting to grips with load 14 at Grantham (night time)
**Riding behind a 31 getting stuck on a grade hauling 12 coaches!
**"Whistler Farewell" at Peterborough
**Class 20s on the "Skeggy" at Leicester 

Here is the full recording list: Leicester: 1 - 45139 departs for St. Pancras in the late afternoon. 3rd April 1980. 2 - An unidentified class 45 sets off in a hurry from platform 3 for St. Pancras. 22nd October 1980. Peterborough: 3 - As 31295 stands at platform 4 an HST whizzes through northwards. Then 55012 "Crepello" is heard in the background departing on the 0805 York - Kings Cross. Somebody asks if I got the HST's number! (No, I didn't!). 31295 then sets off for Norwich. 2nd May 1981. 4 - After a brief pause at platform 4, 37102 does a good horse imitation as it pulls away on a mixed freight (including Grainflow) taking the line towards March. 2nd May 1981. 5 - 47438 departs platform 4 on a northbound semi-fast service. 2nd May 1981. 6 - 55016 sets off at 1317 for York. 26th September 1981. 7 - 37047 leaves for Harwich at 1846. 26th September 1981. Axminster 27th March 1982: 8* - 50047 pulls away briskly on an Exeter service at 1354. St. Germans 27th March 1982: 9* - 50027 departs leisurely at 1804 on its way to Penzance, as an HST sounds its horns and passes at the other side of the train. Chesterfield 28th March 1983: 10 - Two kinds of whistling as 20158/181 on a goods train and an HST 43163/164 both depart southbound as the daylight fades. 11 - 25259 on a parcels train splutters away into the distance (south) at 1937hrs. and many many more....

* denotes on-train recording.