Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01

A picture of Great Western Railway "Hall" Class steam locomotive #4936 ("Kinlet Hall") (The engine said to be responsible for the recording.), at the Minehead Railway Station on the West Somerset Railway in England. (Circa 2015)

This sound effect can be found on BBC Sound Effects Library - Second Edition, which was made by Sound Ideas. The whistle that is heard in this sound effect was the whistle off of Great Western Railway Kinlet "Hall" Class steam locomotive #4936, nicknamed "Kinlet Hall" as 4936 was not in operation in 1989. It's commonly referred to as "Spencer's whistle" from the (formerly) long-running British children's television series, Thomas & Friends.

Sound Effect Description

Train, Whistles: Steam Engine Whistle (Great Western Railways).

Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect

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Used In

TV Shows

• Bear Behaving Badly (Heard once in "Out of Control.")
• Bob the Builder (1999 TV Series) (Heard twice in "Muck's Train to Trouble.") 
• Fireman Sam
• The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (Heard once in "Follow the Bouncing Orange".)
• Jim Henson's Construction Site (Used for the site whistle in the 1999-2000 series.)
• Mr. Bean: The Animated Series (Heard once in "The Bottle.")
• Thomas & Friends (Used as Arthur and Spencer's whistle.)

Movies

• Bob the Builder: The Big Dino Dig (2011)
• Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot (2003)
• Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009) (Used as Spencer's whistle.)
• Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway (2013) (Used as Spencer's whistle.)
• Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (2010) (Used as Spencer's whistle.)

Video Games

Nintendo DS:

• Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (Video Game) (Used as Spencer's whistle.)

Nintendo Wii:

• Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (Video Game) (Used as Spencer's whistle.)

Trailers

• Monsters at Work (Trailers)

YouTube Videos

• Carson's Video Workshop
• MajorEngineStudios

Image Gallery

Construction Site Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01

Thomas & Friends Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009) Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009) Sound Ideas, TRAIN STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01 (reverb effect added)

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009) Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01 (reverb effect added)

Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway (2013) Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE (GWR) 01

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