31 Jul 2025

Moment of Calm - a hotel on wheels

From Three to Seven, 1:00 pm on 31 July 2025
Melbourne to Sydney sleeper train cabin.

A Night Train before it gets dark... Photo: thinkingmedia.tv

This week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm was recorded somewhere between Benella and Wagga Wagga. RNZ's Bryan Crump can't be more specific as he was on the top bunk at the time.

What he can say is that it was around midnight on the sleeper train from Melbourne to Sydney and the train was pulling out of a country station stop.

If the prospect of a sleeping berth on a train seems calming to you, try out the audio above.

If you listen closely, you can just hear the train horn sounding at the beginning of the track, before the diesel engine begins to rumble, the train begins to roll and the carriages start to sway as the train picks up speed and rides into the night.

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