Best ever traction sound

[Silverlink]

I don't know if there is a thread on this already but what is everyone's favourite traction motor sound! Personally mine is Class 319-321. Could listen to it all day

 

[E_Reeves]

Class 350 for me

 

[GW43125]

If we're sticking with electric:
87 at full tap for me. Can't stand the desiros.

 

[adrock1976]

The original Valenta engines with their distinctive scream that were in the Intercity 125 powercars.

EDIT: After re-reading the opening post (admittedly it was the title of the thread that did not specify motors), I liked the Class 310 and 323 motor sounds.

 

[class387]

319 for classic DC motor thrash, 365 or 1996TS for more characteristic noises.

 

[RichJF]

Original Met Cam class 465 accelerating.

 

[rebmcr]

Class 323

 

[Mag_seven]

I don't know if there is a thread on this already

Two threads actually:

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=131551

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2763928

 

[goblinuser]

Class 317 by miles, hear it for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVePK7wMJbM

 

[sk688]

Jubilee Line trains sound amazing

Like the electrostar / Victoria / S8 +7
traction motor noises too

Personally . not a fan of DC Motors ( with the exception of the 1992 TS ) , although I havent been on too many DC Motored trains , and their condition influenced my view of them ( LM321s and LM319s) . I find them noisy and rattling

 

[Mag_seven]

If we're sticking with electric:
87 at full tap for me.

Listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s0pRnoD5E

 

[GW43125]

Listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s0pRnoD5E

What a sound! If only I were old enough to remember them

 

[Silver Cobra]

Class 365 all the way :P Also the Jubilee Line 1996 stock, which sounds like the 365s but at a different (higher?) pitch

 

[43096]

Traction motor sounds (well I suppose traction system technically)? Siemens ES64U and ES64U2 Taurus locos (ÖBB 1016/1116, DB 182 etc) are the best by an absolute mile.

 

[birchesgreen]

96TS on the JLE

 

[AlexNL]

Class 377

 

[billh]

Class 76/EM1 motors- plus a very unusual clickety clack on rail joints from the short wheelbase between bogies. Come to think of it, I can't remember the sound , twas such a long time ago!

 

[bramling]

I don't know if there is a thread on this already but what is everyone's favourite traction motor sound! Personally mine is Class 319-321. Could listen to it all day

For modern EMUs, has to be the 465/0s and 465/1s with their original equipment, plus of course the 323s. Although of course much of this sound isn't purely the traction motors but the traction package as a whole.

Can't beat an EE507 motor as well.

 

[59CosG95]

Traction motor sounds (well I suppose traction system technically)? Siemens ES64U and ES64U2 Taurus locos (ÖBB 1016/1116, DB 182 etc) are the best by an absolute mile.

Wholeheartedly agree. Just listen to this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRf30pVGMp4&t=12s), full orchestral power!

 

[Wivenswold]

R stock from the District Line. Not only the tuneful whining on the motors but lovely noisy compressors.

 

[Strathclyder]

303s as a whole win it for me, with 314s/318s/320s collectively in second place & 334s coming in at a distant 3rd.

 

[ac6000cw]

Traction motor sounds (well I suppose traction system technically)? Siemens ES64U and ES64U2 Taurus locos (ÖBB 1016/1116, DB 182 etc) are the best by an absolute mile.

Have to agree

Also any of the vintage DC-motored electric locos e.g. BR class 76, old Swiss and Austrian locos (like the Austrian Mariazellerbahn class 1099, more than a hundred years old).

 

[507 001]

Got to be the PEPs for me!

 

[RyanB]

Wholeheartedly agree. Just listen to this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRf30pVGMp4&t=12s), full orchestral power!

I watched that and thought "surely that's fake", but nope, other videos around the net show that it is entirely not fake.

Now if only someone could make an actual music track from the traction motor noises, that would be quite a listen.

 

[Metobusfan]

465/466 for me! love them in the morning pulling away from blackfriars bays

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[43096]

Wholeheartedly agree. Just listen to this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRf30pVGMp4&t=12s), full orchestral power!

Three more to keep you entertained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WLKHvMuPjw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ky7t6l0WcU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgAI7Litywc

 

[RichmondCommu]

Black 5 and a class 40, assuming that we are allowed two nominations.

 

[cjmillsnun]

You can't beat the sound of a DC motor screaming. 4VEP

 

[Kentish Paul]

Not a spectacular sound but the noise of a 395 just oozes power when leaving Stratford eastward in the tunnel on full chat.

 

[satisnek]

Anything with a good whine, which all motors seem to develop once they've covered a few hundred thousand miles.