33 1/3 rpm LP disc 'The Power of steam'

Made:
United Kingdom

Album of railway sounds, first published in 1965 as DA 35 (mono) and ZDA 35 (stereo), re-released in 1970 as ZTR 115 by Argo Transacord. ASV Transacord released ATR 7028 in 1984 with the same title, also issued on audiocassette as ZC ATR 7028, though the content is different. Commercial edition for ZDA 35. Lineside recordings of steam locomotives, hard at work with passenger and goods trains: On the Carlisle-Edinburgh line; on the Lickey Incline; at Basingstoke Station; in the Ayrshire colliery district and on the Shap Fells at Scout Green

Details

Category:
Sound Recordings
Object Number:
2023-595
Materials:
cardboard and polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Measurements:
overall: 310 mm x 310 mm x 5 mm,
type:
gramophone record

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