Trackside Tunes 3.0

General music, recreations, or rearrangements of music from Season 3

Series 3 core

My All Time Favorite Themes

Hurry Hurry Hurry! Another revisit to Gordon's classic theme. 

Gordon's original theme really captures the personality and speed of an express engine, the triumphant trumpet like lead accompanied by these intense rapid 'chuffs' that are provided by the LM-1. Mike and Junior really knew what they what to do with this one, it's like they provided a grand synth orchestra!

Gordon The Big Express Engine's Theme (Series 1)

The Viaduct Theme reworked into 'The Harbour Theme' from Series 3, used in Donald's Duck.

The Harbour Theme(Donald's Duck - Series 3)

Thought I'd take a crack at a classic one, probably one the more 'ambient' pieces of Series 1 but the cabasa makes it sound so busy at the same time, such a nice nod to the sound of Thomas' pistons.

Thomas the Tank Engine's Theme (Series 1)

Reuploaded with added french horns I've missed out.

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Henry the Green Engine's Theme - Series 3

I've remastered all of my S3 Thomas themes and decided to reupload them, starting with this one.

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Thomas the Tank Engine's Theme - Series 3

A recreation of Edward's Theme from the first 2 seasons of Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends

Re-arranged with Linn LM-1 samples and Atruria's Jupiter 8V VST along with a few other Synth Patches.

Original Music - Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell
Adaptation - Sudrian Afro


Edward The Blue Engine's Theme (Series 1)

A recreation of The Flying Kipper Theme from the early 80's of Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends


Original Music - Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell
Adaptation - Sudrian Afro

The Flying Kipper Theme (Series 1)

A recreation of Henry's Theme from Series 1 of Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends

Re-arranged with VLINN and Atruria's Jupiter 8V VST along with a few other Synth Patches.

Original Music - Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell
Adaptation - Sudrian Afro

Henry The Green Engine's Theme (Series 1)

A recreation of The Viaduct Theme from Series 2 of Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends

Original Music - Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell
Adaptation - Sudrian Afro

The Viaduct Theme (Series 2)

A recreation of The Watermill Theme from the early 80's of Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends

Re-arranged with Atruria's Jupiter 8V VST along with a few other Synth Patches.

Original Music - Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell
Adaptation - Sudrian Afro

The Watermill Theme (Series 2)

So technically, this was a birthday present from Sudrian Afro as I also commissioned this to him to complete all the S3 Gordon themes as he already did the ones from Time for Trouble and Famous Visitor.

Music by S.A. Music.

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Gordon the Big Engine's Theme - Series 3 (The Trouble with Mud Varient, Sudrian Afro)

James The Red Engine's Theme (Season 1)

Henry's Theme (S4) - Remastered

Here's the second of a few holiday surprises. Hands down my favorite theme from Season 1, between the dynamics of the melody and harmonies to the  combination of warm, analogue synths of the Jupiter-6, there's just too much not to like. It was a lot of fun to make, too. Really missed doing stuff with the Jupiter Instruments. Anyways, hope you all enjoy!

Arranged in Acoustica Mixcraft 7 using emulations of the instruments from the Roland Jupiter-6 Analog Synthesizer and a Linn LM-1 VST. Original Theme composed by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell.

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The Flying Kipper Theme - Season 1

This is my favorite theme from Thomas by far. So much so that it was the first Thomas theme I ever tried recreating (way back in 2013 for a music class using Garageband and the default instruments it came with). This started as one of a few attempts I've made to fully recreate it since I've started on SoundCloud. I started last year but quickly abandoned it because I couldn't get the brass or big hits to sound right. However, after finding some good orchestral hit samples and the actual "Bigg Brass" samples, not to mention hearing The Cornish Crusader's stellar take on this theme, I dug up the project file and began work again. I'm  very happy with the results. Hope you all enjoy!

Arranged in Acoustica Mixcraft 7 using a Casio CTK-6200, soundfonts of the E-Mu Proteus/2, and various sample libraries from the late '80's. Original Theme composed by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell.

Thomas and Friends is property of HiT Entertainment. No copyright infringement is intended, and no profit has been, or will be, made from this.

Oliver's Escape - Season 3 (Updated 1/12/23)

Ok, so here's a Proteus theme (sort of) after so long of not doing them. This theme has always interested me aswell as a lot of Series 3's score, the fact that Mike and Junior used themes from S1-2 with the Jupiter 6 and layered the Proteus instruments on top, still giving the new style of the show at the time some elements of where it began. Its a shame this concept discontinued after the 3rd Series except for Daisy's Theme in 'Bull's Eyes' but I imagine by Series 4, some of it would sound outdated.

James The Red Engine's Theme (Series 3)

My name's Sol, but I'm better known by my username TheSodorSamurai. I'm a fan of many shows like Thomas, SpongeBob, TUGS and South Park.

Link to my theme remixes, feel free to use them, but make sure to give me credit. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xi4xXqK2z9DTFtKYdfXA2hUaFshnhuka?usp=sharing