‘Railway Queen’

AUrora engine presents a new Ep of stories, songs and sounds inspired by post industrial towns in the north east, railway and mining industries.

funded by PRS foundation, S & DR FUND,

blenDing instruments, vocals,collected sounds and synthesis the work focuses on stories and communities of past industrial towns, the effects of redundancy, and women often overlooked in industrial communities

*** This page contains work in progress samples, strictly for funders to see the development of the project

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Link to soundscape made from Tyne and Wear Metro collected sounds (ALSO HERE)

Single ‘Coal Dust’

Link to other sound work in development including ORAL Histories (Link HERE)

LIVE PERFORMANCE OF ‘RAILWAY QUEEN’ a song about the role of industry beauty queens / ambassadors

The sound work will be presented at the Locomotion Museum in 2026, and will be released as an EP in early 2027 alongside the electro pop songs .