{"id":65352,"date":"2026-02-18T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65352"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:59:43","slug":"station-to-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/station-to-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Station to station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65354\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-21st-Febuary-2026_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community! The whole Imaginary Station crew get on board to bring\u00a0 a tribute to all things train wise with<strong> CTRN<\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 21st February <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 22nd February<\/strong> at <strong>1000\/1400\/2100 hrs UTC <\/strong>on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>(via the services of<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"> Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>If you love locomotives you will this show, they&#8217;ll be tunes about out-of-date timetables, railway sleepers, abandoned platforms and a live reading by the Longbridge Trainspotters Society from their new book called &#8220;Who&#8217;d be a ticket inspector?&#8221; (*Subject to availability and of course if the trains are running on time and they make it into the studio). So, grab a hot drink and a complimentary snack from trolley service and tune in and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65353\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTRN-Feb-25th-2026-WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll be continuing the<strong> CTRN<\/strong> journey after a refuel and a water stop via\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1769844035703000&amp;usg=AOvVaw17h9cGa1UC4vPWZiUnEP6H\">WRMI<\/a> <\/strong>on <strong>Wednesday 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February 2026\u00a0<\/strong>at<strong> 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlLTcVT0qYc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more information on all our shows, please write to us at imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastRadioBurst23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community! The whole Imaginary Station crew get on board to bring\u00a0 a tribute to all things train wise with CTRN on Saturday 21st February at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again on Sunday 22nd February at 1000\/1400\/2100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold). If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3194,3,43,1167],"tags":[9450,7929,10669,9110,7928,11010,9918,10065,11009,10066,10255],"class_list":["post-65352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ctrn","tag-dj-frederick","tag-downbeat-on-shortwave","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-gerry-hectic","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h04","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62955,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/get-tuned-in-dad\/","url_meta":{"origin":65352,"position":0},"title":"Get tuned in dad","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"May 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings to all SWLing Post community from the Imaginary Stations crew. 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