an image of 4936 kinlet hall pulling a passenger train in a countryside.
A picture of Great Western Railway "Hall" Class steam locomotive #4936 ("Kinlet Hall") (The engine 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".
It's most common and well known usage is being the whistle on Spencer the Streamlined Engine 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
Used In
TV Shows
- Bear Behaving Badly (Heard once in "Out of Control.")
- Bob the Builder (1998 TV Series) (Heard twice in "Mucks'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 Spencer's whistle.)
Movies
- 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.)
YouTube Videos
- Aiden Andrews (Used as Spencer's whistle.)
- MajorEngineStudios
Image Gallery
_01.jpg "Construction Site Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01.jpg (219 KB)")
_01.jpg "Thomas & Friends Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01.jpg (86 KB)")
_Sound_Ideas,_TRAIN,_STEAM_-_ENGINE_WHISTLE_(GWR)_01_and_Sound_Ideas,_TRAIN,_STEAM_-_ENGINE_WHISTLE_(GWR)_02.png "Thomas & Friends King of the Railway (2013) Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 01 and Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - ENGINE WHISTLE (GWR) 02.png (1.02 MB)")
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