| Description | Tape combining actuality with sound effects and songs; mainly Bert Lloyd singing parts of the 'Buxton Ascent Theme':
Track 1: end of 'The Manchester Rambler' followed by Gladys Axon speaking, 0.15 mins
Track 2: Bert Lloyd singing, Jack Pickford speaking, 0.22 mins
Track 3: Bert Lloyd singing part of the 'Buxton Ascent Theme' beginning 'The repair was done', 1.54 mins
Track 4: Bert Lloyd singing; Gladys Axon talks about rambling, 1.18 mins
Track 5: Gladys Axon talks about rambling, 0.17 mins
Track 6: Bert Lloyd singing, 0.48 mins
Track 7: noises of trains, 0.08 mins
Track 8: noise of the wind, 0.23 mins
Tracks 9: Bert Lloyd singing, 0.17 mins
Track 10: Bert Lloyd singing, 1.03 mins
Track 11: noise of a steam train puffing, 0.28 mins
Track 12: Gladys Axon talking about rambling, 0.24 mins
Track 13: Silence, 0.12 mins
Tracks 14-15: Gladys Axon talking about rambling; Bert Lloyd singing part of 'Buxton Ascent Theme', 1.24 mins
Track 16: Silence, 0.12 mins
Track 17: Ewan MacColl sings 'And the brazed flange crumbles, The pipe is parted, IT BLOWS!' 0.25 mins
Track 18: excerpts from interviews with children trainspotting, 1.05 mins
Tracks 19-20: Ewan MacColl singing, with guitar; interview with railway worker
Track 21: a man speaking, 0.11 mins
Track 22: sound effects, wind in a tunnel, choir singing, 1.14 mins
Track 23: Ewan MacColl and chorus singing 'By his deeds you shall know him', followed by crash sound effects, 0.45 mins
Track 24: Interview with Jack Pickford; part of 'you create the power', 0.14
Track 25: train crash sound effect; Ewan MacColl and orchestra singing part of 'Ballad of Runaway Train', 1.18 mins
Tracks 26-28: brief sounds of musicians playing and talking
Track 29: Silence, 0.14 mins
Track 30: Sound of train, 0.31 mins
Track 31: Steam sound effect with Ron Scanlon describing the steam in the carriage, 1.24 mins
Total: 20.59 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0514080
Song titles are taken from the original script for 'The Ballad of John Axon', catalogues as MS 4000/2/64/1/3. |