Picc Line train noises at start and end of Jim Dale song

Definitely not 59 stock. Might even have been Standard stock.

What a puzzle! I'm not sure it's standard stock (compressors) at all.

My gut feeling is that, as per always, the producers weren't all that fussy which train type they used - after all "they're only tubes aren't they?" In which case (being of an age to remember them, and having used the Picc every day in the mid-to-late 50s and on from that) my conclusion is that the compressors are from surface stock, probably not R, but more likely O,P or (most likely) Q stock.

To me,that's the only one that makes sense of my, by now somewhat old, sound memories of LT.

I hope that reganorak or tubeprune will be along in a while to confirm or deny.

EDIT - should have said that it definitely ain't 38ts, 59ts (or anything later!), and the reason I don't think it's standard stock is that the compressors on those had a far sharper 'reciprocating' noise, and a slower 'beat' unlike what we were hearing on the clip, these sounding almost more 'rotary' in the smoothness of their noise.

I've worked on a few Stocks in my time, in my view it is niether CO/CP, R, '38, '59 - so my guess would be Standard.

If it helps, I've now discovered that the song was released in 1957 - the first of seven singles on the Parlophone label before switching to Pye's Piccadilly label in 1962.

"Rock Island Line" by Lonnie Donegan,I think...

That's the song I was trying to think of.

They don't write them like that any more.

Hehehe! A good thing perhaps!

With the usual Wiki-caveat...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,_Rock_Island_and_Pacific_Railroad

From the Wiki page "Rock Island Line (song)":
The song is based on the name of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, which operated an extensive network across the central states of the USA, Chicago to Omaha, Nebraska, Chicago to Texas, and reached Minneapolis, Minnesota, Memphis, Tennessee, and other points. Contrary to the song, although a minor route penetrated northern Louisiana, it did not reach New Orleans. Like a number of railroads based in Chicago with lengthy formal names, it was generally known by a shortened nickname, the "Rock Island", which name was painted on the locomotives and elsewhere. Rock Island is a small town on the Illinois shore of the Mississippi River, and the initial rail route connected it across the state to Chicago. The railroad's ambition, from its name, to reach the Pacific was never even remotely attained. The Rock Island was a rail pioneer from the 1850s, and was long known for carrying on through financial adversity challenging better-structured rival companies in its territory. It finally went out of business in 1980. Some of its former routes were purchased and are now run by other rail companies.

New Orleans. See www.metrolyrics.com/the-rock-island-line-lyrics-johnny-cash.html

Going back to the original track, the compressor must surely be Standard Stock.

Why?

A record company produced what they hoped would be a popular song not a rolling stock manual. The compressor sound is just that a compressor sound.

No I think the record company put in the sound that sounds similar to the noise trains make when they stop, call it a sort of ticking noise, and then sent out a gopher to record trains at a local station.