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Handwritten on case: Track [I.2], Brienz-Rothorn / Switzerland

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Brienz-Rothorn'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, 4555 Merthyr-Brecon, Reel No. 1, User: J. Adams, 02/04/1964 ; Take 1: Leaving Merthyr ; Take 2 (ticked): Climbing to Pontsticill ; Take 3: Leaving Brecon ; Take 4 (ticked): Leaving Talybont ; Take 5 (ticked): Climbing to Torpantau ; Take 6 (ticked): Leaving Pontsticill for Dowlais ; Take 7 (ticked): Leaving Pontsticill for Merthyr / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '4555 Merthyr to Brecon'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 23/11/1962 ; Take 1. Signal school Sutton Park ; 2. Bell signals ; 3. […] ; 4. Bell signals ; 5. Intro John Adams ; Note in red ink: For Railway Roundup Childrens programmes, please copy short section between yellow leaders thwice with about 10 seconds interval Adams.

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Signal School'

1962
BBC Recording service label, Ffestiniog railway, Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 29/07/1964 ; Take 1 (marked with red ink): ME in woods near Tan-y-Bwlch ; Take 2: ME leaving Tan-y-Bwlch 12.45 ; Take 3: ME entering Minffordd ; Take 4 (marked with red ink): Blanche leaving Minffordd / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Ffestiniog Railway'

1964
Handwritten on case: The Cambrian Coast Express ; 7 1/2 ips, single track ; 43

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Cambrian Coast Express (The)'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, 4555 Trials, Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 02/01/1964 ; Take 1: Leaving Swindon ; Take 2: En route ; Take 3: [Kemble] stop ; Take 4: [Kemble] shunt ; Take 5: Leaving [Kemble] and return (coach) / Location: South West England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '4555 Trials'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 4555 + 3669, Brecon to Talybont and leaving climbing up 1 in 40 to Torpantau, Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 02/05/1964, Talybont-Brecon ; Take 1: Returning from Brecon as last train ; Take 2: Leaving Brecon ; Take 3: [Detonations etc. running through Tatlyllyn Junction] ; Take 4: Start out of.... ; Take 6: Pontsticill Junction for Dowlais and then Merthyr / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '4555 and 3669, Brecon, Talybont, Merthyr'

1964
BBC Recording service label, GNRD, Reel No. 3, User: PBW, 07/06/1964 ; 1.45 Belfast-Portadown semie-fast ; Take 1: Lurgan-Portadown on 4-4-0 170 ; Take 2: Arrival Portadown - [ease up take under (..up take water?) and on to shed and bank to station] ; Take 4: NCC 2-6-4, No. 8 on 2.15, Belfast-Dublin Express passing Portadown low shed ; Take 5: GN 0-6-0 No. 35 on Derry-Belfast goods ; Take 6: Diesel MU Portadown-Belfast / Location: Northern Ireland

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'GNRD'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 7828 and 4555 Llanbrynmair-Talerddig, Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 26/09/1964, '397 for 11' ; Run [Jn] ; Take 1: Approaching Llanbrynmair, [taking …] climb up to Talerddig Summit, stop. [sound] at Talerddig ; (Slack beyond Llanbrynmair approx. 200 yards) / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '7828 and 4555 Llanbrynmair-Talerddig'

1964
BBC Recording service label, Orient Express, Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 21 and 26/07/1965 ; Take 1: Munich-Salzburg-Vienna ; Take 2: Leaving Vienna / Dusty tape / Location: Germany, Austria

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Orient Express'

1965
BBC Recording service label, Ref. No. KLO 67880, 1 ; Wats rewind ; Take 1: Train leaving Volos ; Take 2: Enroute to Milee / Location: Greece

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Train leaving Volos, enroute to Milee'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, Swansea-Shrewsbury, reel No. 2, User: PBW, 17/09/1963 ; Take 1: 45577 on 6.25pm Swansea to Shrewsbury mail [coming a hendlamps] / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Swansea to Shrewsbury'

1963
BBC Recording service label, Ref. No. 7802 Oswestry, User: PBW, 17/01/1965 ; Take 1: 7802 on last train [Walport] ; Take 2: Whitchurch to Oswestry ; Take 3: Running round / Location: South England, West Midlands, England (Wales border)

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '7802 on last train'

1965
BBC Recording service label, Ref. No. KLO 67880, No2 ; Take 1: Sounds on train ; Takes 3-6: Finishing at Millee with passengers leaving train to go up to village for festivities / Location: Greece

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '[Milee station]'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, 16/08/1962 ; Take 1: Knighton to Sugar Loaf Tunnel ; handwritten on the back: 1. Train [slowly f... rest] at Knighton ; 2. Train approach [from …] ; 3. [Ready summit of L.. entering] tunnel with whistle ; 4. [Start for rest from Llenntel Wells] / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Knighton to Sugar Loaf tunnel'

1962
Handwritten on case: Mallard ; John Adams ; 10

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Mallard'

1958-1964
Handwritten on case: 15 / Handwritten on paper (fibre product)s attached to case, description of Band I to XXX: Paddington, Band I. 9460 pulling empty stock for Paddington-Plymouth train into platform 1 ; II. 4:10 Birmingham 6027 Richard I ; III. 4:15 Barburry Brecon Castle (single C...) ; IV. No. 1504 whistles impatiently and leaves with train of empty stock ; V. May flower leaving hauled by D858 Val... followed by 9405 hauling out empty stock and 9460 pssing light being engine which pulled in empty stock for May Flower (see Bnad I) ;VI. 4:35 leaving with Alderban Hall ... etc...

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Paddington'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, ref no. 3, 15/09/1963 ; Ashington

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Ashington'

1963
BBC Recording service label, SLS Special 49361 + 8 coaches full, Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 22/06/1963 ; Take 1: Walsall, Darlaston, Wednesbury ; Take 2: Walsall, Norton Junction, East ; Take 3: Cannock Junction, Hednesford, Rugby TV ; Take 4: Lichfield TV - LL - HL ; Take 5: Lichfield Town / Location: West Midlands, England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'SLS Special 49361 and 8 coaches full'

1963
Handwritten note on case is crossed over: Vale of Rheidol

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '[untitled]'

Handwritten on case: Cromford + High Peak ; 7 1/2 ips, single track ; 41 ; handwritten notes crossed over [likely a re-used case] / Typed note enclosed: Band I. No. 68006 working 15 empty wagons from High Peak Junction to Cromford Bottom ; II. Wagons being hauled up Sheep-pasture incline ; III. Sheep-pasture incline gravity winding ; IV. Sheep-pasture incline stam winding ; V. No. 47007 shunting at Sheep-pasture ; VI. No. 47007 shunting at Sheep-pasture ; VII. No. 47007 shunting at Sheep-pasture ; VIII. No. 47007 running between Sheep-pasture and Black Rock ; IX. Middleton incline winding engine built by the Butterley Iron Company, 1825 ; X. No. 68079 leaving Middleton top ; XI. No. 68079 asending Hopton bank (1st take) ; XII. No. 68079 asending Hopton bank (2nd take)

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Cromford and High Peak'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, A4 60004 'William Whitelaw', Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 14/06/1963 ; Take 1: Leaving Aberdeen ; Take 2 (marked with red ink): Stonehaven ; Take 3: Forfar ; Take 4: Perth ; Take 5 (marked with red ink): Stirling ; Take 6: Running into Glasgow / Location: Scotland

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'A4 60004 'William Whitelaw''

1963
Handwritten on case: 12/07/1964, Lickey Bank, 4-6-0 Class 5 on goods banked by two 0-6-0 PTs ; 5

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Lickey Bank'

1964
BBC Recording service label, Double chimney Clun Castle No. 7029, 1/10 [work/Pch], Reel No. 1, user: PBW, 10/04/1964 ; Take 1: Leaving [Worsham] ; Take 2: Leaving Evesham ; Tak e3: Climbing to summit Camden Bank ; Take 4: Leaving Moreton-in-Marsh (Gloucestershire) / Location: West Midlands and South West England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '7029 Clun Castle'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 4555 SLS Excursion, Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 13/06/1964, load 165 for 5 ; Take 1: Leaving Snow Hill 1.45 pm (check over bridge) ; Take 2: Leaving Rowley Regis and Blackheath for Dudley ; Take 3: Climbing up from Old Hill to Dudley, passing LMS Class 5 ; Take 4: Leaving Dudley for Wolverhampton ; Take 5: On Wombourne Branch [taking] tablet ; Take 6: [Oxley Hall] to Wombourne / Location: West Midlands, England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '4555 SLS Excursion'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 4555 on 5.28 ex SH, and [ also steam locals at Knowle], Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 21/04/1964 ; Take 1: Signal Box Knowle 4555 and train entering ; Take 2: Locomotive running round ; Take 3: ECS and 4555 leaving ; Take 4: 6364 on up local leaving Knowle, plus 11 coaches ; Take 5: 4111 on down ECS leaving Knowle / Location: West Midlands, England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '45555 at Knowle'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 2236 and 80029, Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 28/03/1964 ; Take 1: Leaving Porthmadog (Portmadog) to [Backrod (passing)] ; Take 2: Return Minffordd (leaving) ; Take 3: Leving Llanbedr and Pensarn ; Takes 4-5: 80029 leabing Llwyngwril, 82026 running down into Aberdovey (Aberdyfi) at 4.50 pm and passing 2236 ; Take 6: 2236 starting out of Aberdovey and climbing towards Penhelig into 2.35 pm ex Barmouth / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '2236 and 80029'

1958-1968
BBC Recording service label, 16/08/1962 ; Take 1: Craven Arms leaving ; Take 2: Enroute to x ; Take 3: Shunting at Buckwell ; 'Rewind' / Location: West Midlands, England (Wales Border)

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '[Craven Arms + Buckwell]'

1962
BBC Recording service label, Cardiff/Merthyr, 6606, Tape No. 1, user: PBW, 02/05/1964 ; Takes 1-2: Leaving Cardiff General to main line [l…] Cardiff Queen Street ; Takes 3-6: Slowly for Abercynon and climbs to Quakers Yard, Pause at Quackers Yard to [check] for passengers and then away to Merthyr, Arrival at Merthyr / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Cardiff/Merthyr 6606'

1958-1968
BBC Recording service label, GNR (II), Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 07/03/1964 ; Take 1: [Enterprise entering GV… st Ireland] General Motor Diesel ; Take 2: Diesel MU leaving for Lisburn ; Take 3: On board 170 in Blue, leaving Belfast ; Takes 4-5: Leaving Lisburn [stops and starts to] Lurgan (exclusive) / Location: Northern Ireland

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'GNR (II)'

1964
BBC Recording service label, Ref. No. KLO 18206, Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 24/08/1963 ; Takes 1-4: Joining for Calais (Ville) to Lille on Footplate of SNCF, Pacific 231 E 21 on Calais-Lyss car sleeper ; 3 records / Location: France (and Switzerland)

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Callais, Lille (SNCF, France), Calais to Lyss (Switzerland)'

1958-1966
BBC Recording service label, Shap, Reel No. 1, User: John Adams, 05/1965 ; 19

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Shap'

1965
BBC Recording service label, Oxfordshire Ironstone, Reel No. 1, 02/02/1965 ; Take 1: Main line trains arriving Sidings HQ ; Take 2: [Cuisher/Amshy] and tippler wagons ; Take 3: [ML dep inch] shunting brake van ; Take 4: 0-4-0 Peckett to [Quarry] (or Quay) / Location: South West England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Oxfordshire Ironstone'

1965
BBC Recording service label, Compound test run after restoration, reel No. 2, user: Railway Roundabout MR 440 Compound, 13/08/1959 ; Take 1: [Retr.] approaching Lester ; Takes 2-4: Leicester Station to Syston, at speed, accelerating out of Loughborough [and or Troughs], passing {Sleef stores I..] Sawley and beyond / Location: East Midlands, England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Compound test run after restoration'

1959
Handwritten on case: I.O.W [Isle of Wight] ; 7 1/2 ips one track only ; I.O.W tape 1 (locomotive No. 32) / Detail of tracks on case: A: Leaving St John's (down), B: leaving Smallbrook Junction (down) ; C: Leaving Brading (down) ; D: Leaving Sandown (down) ; 0.2, 0-4-4T, Bonchurch ; 2

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Isle of Wight'

1958-1964
Handwritten on case: Kings Cross ; B ; 12

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Kings Cross'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, Lapworth / Location: West Midlands, England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Lapworth'

BBC Recording service label, Orient Express Salzburg-Munich, Reel No. 2, User: PBW, 24/07/1965 / Location: Austria and Germany

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Orient Express'

1965
Handwritten on case: 1, sleeper

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Sleeper 1'

1958-1964
Handwritten on case: BR train approaching summit

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'BR train approaching summit'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, 6018 to Swindon, Reel No. 1, User: PBW, 28/04/1963 ; Take 1: Tyseley to Snow Hill ex yard ; Take 2: Arrival and departure Snow Hill ; Take 3: Departing Leamington and en rout ; Take 4: Deaparting High Wycombe and en route / Location: West Midlands, South East England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '6018 to Swindon'

1963
BBC Recording service label, 46251, Reel No. 1, 12/07/1964 ; Take 1: Leaving New Street ; Take 2: Wolverhampton ; Take 3: Stafford after check / Location: West Midlands

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '46251, New Street, Wolverhampton, Stafford'

1964
BBC Recording service label ; Take 1: 5558 Loddiswell ; Take 2: T9 30338 ; Take 4: 5588 leaving Gara Bridge / Location: Devon, South West England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '5558 Loddiswell'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, 4555 SLS Excursion, Reel No.3, user: PBW, 13/06/1964 ; Take 1: [Picking up from slack] Fernhill Heath to Worcester Hill ; Take 2: Waiting at [junction] for Bromyard Branch pilotman ; Takes 3-4: Leaving main line and running on to branch with pilotman and picking up driver who has been to the signal box for report and who carries [baltry] and waiting of steep on line ; Take 5: Climbing [...] to summit of branch ; Take 6: Leaving Bromyard / Location: West Midlands, England

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '4555 SLS Excursion'

1964
BBC Recording service label, 2-6-2 Tank 4135, Gloucester-Hereford, Reel No. 2, user: PBW, 27/02/1964 ; Takes 1-6: Grange Court Junction 4135, all station to Holme Lacy, 12-25 Gloucester-Hereford, also 4107 leaving Grange Court Junction, on 1.40 Hereford-Gloucester (Glos), 48017 on up Freight, D7096 on the Castle Cardiff passing Grange Court Junction / Location: Wales

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Gloucester to Hereford'

1964
BBC Recording service label, Take 1: 1. [non staff], 2. [K and ES], 3. Loud [C and D], 4. [station], 5. GW emergency, 6. [LBSC], 7. Furness ; Take 2: Complete take of loco whistles

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '[Locomotive whitsles]'

1958-1967
BBC Recording service label, Ref. No. KLO 67880, No. 4 ; Take 1: Leaving Volos for Larissa, 11pm ; Take 2: Approach Thessaloniki, 6.50am, announcement station platform ; Take 3: Approach Skopje station, depart ; Take 6: Leaving Volos, [Salombia], Entering Skopje [olitto] station sounds / Location: Greece and Macedonia

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '[Greece and Macedonia railways, Volos, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Skopje]'

1958-1966
BBC Recording service label, Reel No. 1, User John Adams, 18/06/1964 ; 32 ; LM Clan 4 Curzon station to Coventry No. 44454

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'LM Clan 4 Curzon station to Coventry'

1964
Handwritten note on case: Shrewsbury station ; John Adams ; 38 ; Bands I to XX descriptions enclosed ; 7 1/2 ips / Handwritten note enclosed: 1. Up Cambrian coast arrives in platform 4 at 12:47pm hauled by 4-6-0 No. 7814 Fringford Manor ; 2. Western Thunderer D10 backs three extra coaches onto Cambrian Coast ; 3. Western Thunderer leaves with Cambrian Coast IA-70 ; 4. Freight train leaving middle road hauled by 3699 ; 5. Castle Class 5084 Westminster Abbey [comes] off 11.40 Express Birkenhead which arrived at 1:36 platform 7 ; 6. Diesel D1005 Western Venturer back on to 11:40 Express Birkenhead which will leave for London at 1:46 ; 7. 1:45 leaves for Kidderminster hauled by 41240 followe by 1:46 London ; 8. County of [Me...] leaves light ; 9. Freight train passing through from Welsh PT No. 9472 ; 10. 45406 arrives at 2:00pm from Stafford as 1:58pm leaves for Plymouth hauled by Zephyr ; 11. The 2:00pm train which you heard arrive from Stafford now back out of the station and reverses round the triangle and return to platform 6 and ready to leave again as the 3:10 for Stafford (45406) ; 12. Down Cambrian Coast arrives with D1003 ; 13. Pulling out empty stock from [...] 9629 ; 14. Cambrian Coast leaves with 7814 Fringford Manor ; 15. 2:50 to [Chester] ex Platform 4 No. 6964 Thornbridge Hall ; 16. 4623 leaving east end with goods train [...] ; 17. 4910 Blaisdon Hall leaving on 3:31 to [Chester] ; 18. 45289 on parcels train is held up at signal and then passes through station ; 19. 6932 Burwarton Hall on goods ; 20. 45780 on goods from Birkenhead

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Shrewsbury station'

1958-1964
BBC Recording service label, nothing written on the label

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" '?'

1958-1963