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Railway Junction

It鈥檚 鈥淎ll aboard!鈥� as Verity Sharp presents an eclectic selection of sonic odes to rail travel to mark 200 years since the first passenger railway journey in the UK.

It鈥檚 鈥淎ll aboard!鈥� as Verity Sharp presents an eclectic selection of sonic odes to rail travel, 200 years on from the first ever passenger railway journey in the UK. Expect an archival adieu to the steam locomotives from Carnforth, Lancashire, echoes of a station piano recorded during a transit interlude, and a ticket inspector鈥檚 nod to the quiet solitude of the trans-European night train cabin in the form of contemporary field recordings.

We鈥檒l offer a sympathetic ear to Sinn Sisamouth鈥檚 heartache as he laments the night train taking his lover away; and go somewhat off the rails via one man鈥檚 bebop skat singing tour-de-force, complete with the hoots, rattle tattle and hubadeebap of a railroad car at high speed; and, hopping triumphantly back on board, we鈥檒l join a cast of miners, cat skinners, lumberjacks, fisherman, sailors and farmer workhands as they roll through the sun, sleet and rain, headed for South America.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Fri 26 Sep 2025 22:00
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Music Played

  • Chris Watson

    El Divisadero

    • El Tren Fantasma.

  • Kenneth Granville Attwood

    Carnforth - No 45390, 44871 At M&F Yard, July 1968

    • Memories of Steam.
    • Hallmark Marble Arch.

  • STROOM.tv

    BRUSSELS-CENTRAL

    • Trains Tracks.

  • Woody Guthrie

    Farmer Labor Train

    • Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

  • Marimba Chapinlandia

    Ferrocarril de los Altos (The Highland Train)

    • Chapinlandia - Marimba Music of Guatemala.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

  • Sinn Sisamouth

    Ruth Pleung Atreat Kleat Sanga (The Night Train Takes My Lover Away)

    • Vol. 2.
    • Lion Productions.

  • Hermeto Pascoal

    Su铆te Paulistana

    • 窜补产耻尘产锚-产耻尘-谩.
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Daphne Oram

    Snow

    • Oramics.

  • Ernst Karel

    Oberdorf-Weissenstein

    • Swiss Mountain Transport Systems.
    • Gruenrekorder.

  • T Baby Green

    Train Fare 蜜芽传媒

    • Train Fare 蜜芽传媒.

  • Nobukazu Takemura

    Ladder of Meaning

    • Knot of Meanings.

  • Cheryl E. Leonard

    Moffen

    • Near the Bear.

  • Mississippi Fred McDowell

    Back Back Train

    • Amazing Grace.
    • Testament Records.

  • Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver

    Train Song

    • Hinterland.

  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

    Bat Chain Puller

    • Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller).
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Naftule鈥檚 Dream

    Sitting in Some Train Watching the Tuscan Landscape Go Speeding Backward

    • Blood.
    • Naftule's Dream Recordings.

  • Bernard Parmegiani

    L'艗il 茅coute

    • L'艗il 茅coute.
    • Agon.

  • Le Motel & Magugu

    Bitter Better

    • Bitter Better.
    • Maloca.

  • Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger & Charles Parker

    The Engine Had Reached the Distant Signal

    • The Ballad of John Axon.
    • Topic Records.

  • Donald Fraser

    Locomotion (Ghost Train Version)

    • Locomotion.
    • Mordant Music.

  • Joe McPhee

    Take the V Train

    • Alto.
    • Roaratorio.

  • Kate Carr

    Transit interlude (the Lewisham station piano)

    • Midsummer London.

  • Chuchchepati Orchestra

    D1 Saadet T眉rk枚z

    • Low Noon - 12 musical showdowns at 12:12 pm.

  • Jaune

    Four Rhythmic Undulations

    • Rabid.
    • Futura Resistenza.

  • Richard Hronsk媒

    厂惫别迟辞产么濒'

    • Pohreb.

  • Lord Buckley

    The Train

    • A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat.
    • Straight.

Broadcast

  • Fri 26 Sep 2025 22:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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