That didn't do itself any favours though!
A brief item on yesterday's edition of
Broadcasting House revealed whoever designed the sound effects for an event celebrating the 200th Anniversary of one of
Britain's most significant inventions, used a recording of an
American locomotive whistle and warning-bell! *
I cannot judge if that was by ignorance compounded by incompetence, or bloody-minded lazyness, by the show's designers..... Both perhaps.
I explored that website, which is only really an advertisement for the events.
Including this:
Hitachi Open Day, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Why the Hell are there no
British companies not building British locomotives and rolling-stock in Britain for the country's network?
That, by the way, is Sold Out, it says.
......
*(For non-British readers, British steam-locomotives had higher-pitched whistles than American ones, and with I think only one exception
never used bells. The point though was that the recordings should have been of British locomotives!
The exception? It was an odd one. A bell was fitted on the small locomotives used to take trains between the main line and the harbour in Weymouth, as the short branch-line ran, unfenced, tram-like, along some of the streets including residential ones. The normal whistle would have been too loud there. There may have been others, but never on the main lines.)
