Grand Central Station
Blue / CBS / NBC
Blue / CBS / NBC · 1937–1954
Broadcasts
60
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1937
The run
- Network
- Blue / CBS / NBC
- Years active
- 1937–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- drama
Grand Central Station (1937-1954) opened each week with one of radio's most famous introductions, the roar of a train diving beneath Park Avenue, before telling a self-contained story about someone arriving in or leaving the city.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
15 dated broadcasts across 90 years on the air, with 88 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Last Train Out · 17 Jun 2025
- 2. Night Broadcast · 24 Jun 2025
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 1 Jul 2025
- 01
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 17 min
- 02
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 32 min
- 03
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 47 min
- 04
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
- 05
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 25 min
- 06
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 40 min
- 07
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 55 min
- 08
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 18 min
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