| Description | Tracks 1-5: Sounds of trains and railways including braking, descending, drifting, shovelling, hammering, and mechanical sounds
Track 6: A man talks about unemployment, redundancy, and looking for work in the 1920s, with noises of trains in the background, 3.06 mins
Tracks 7-22: Sounds of trains and railways
Track 23: Charles Parker interviews a man from Edgeley: he talks about evening classes, a team from Edgeley depot entered the MIC quiz, 2.11 mins
Track 24: continues Track 23, describes the happy working conditions at Edgeley shed and pride in the job which makes a man content, 2.18 mins
Track 25: continues 24, talks about the differences between diesel, electric, and steam trains, 3.20 mins
Track 26: Charles Parker asks whether it's a good thing that railway men are only interested in their jobs; the man interviewed explains that the men on the railways have many interests, 2.16 mins
Track 27: Charles Parker asks if the man interviewed is sorry that the steam locomotive is disappearing; he replies that 'progress cannot be halted', 1.56 mins
Track 28: Charles Parker interviews two railway men, Jack and Alec; they talk about the kind of material he wants to record, 1.58 mins
Track 29: continues Track 28 - they talk about working on the railways, 1.58 mins
Total: 59.42 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0507480 |