The "Traction" Series

Ref: LP402D

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The predicted doom and gloom had so far failed to materialise. Despite an infestation of Class 66s and a downturn in loco-hauled passenger services, there was no shortage of activity from the older loco classes. This instalment make the most of it!

FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: The unveiling of 47 635 and 56 078 in Large Logo blue, Inter City re-paints for 31 454 and 37 685, ACTS-liveried Class 58, 37 174 rescued by 37 517 on the Bow-Heck Plasmor empties, 56 100 ventures to Brighton on a stock delivery move, 67 029 on the Eastleigh-Quidhampton china clay tanks, 47 843 on the Moorswater cement, 37 248 working the Swansea-Willesden mail, GBRf’s 66 715 ventures to Hunterston and Longannet on a coal trial, 56 006 on the Acton-Westbury Mendip Rail empties, 47 292 on the Dagenham-Calvert ‘Bins’, 47 778 hauling the Brentford-Appleford ‘Bins’, 37 114 + 37 216 working the Longbridge-Swindon Rover vans…and 37 308 takes star billing in our regular ‘Dead Shed’ spot!

PASSENGER TRACTION, WORKINGS, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: Virgin 47 841 on its extraordinary trip to Inverness hauling the Scotrail ‘sleepers’, 47 784 leaving Gourock with the ‘Royal Scotsman’, ‘Top & Tail’ Class 37/4s on Arriva’s new loco-hauled service from Leeds to Harrogate and Carlisle, the first test run of First Great Western’s 57 602, the visit of 87 001 Stephenson to Newcastle, D1015 Western Champion hauling the Orient Express, the first Class 50 out of Waterloo in nine years, Load Haul ‘Grids’ visit Paignton, 33 202 deputising for steam over the Chiltern Line, 67 002 hauling the Royal Train…and 59 002 hauling a failed steam charter into Merehead Quarry.

THERE’S ALSO: 86 631 hauling a Crewe-Wembley Serco test train, 45 112 hauling the measurement HST, Class 31s visit Aberdeen with the ultrasonic test train, Class 86s en-route to Immingham for scrapping, Class 37s on snowplough tests, ‘top & tail’ 47s on the Dungeness branch, 40 145 in green on the S&C and in blue livery on the ECML, D9016 re-painted back into original two-tone green livery, former-Gatwick Class 73s being towed from Shoeburyness to Norwich, 47 367 debuts at the Glocs & Warwks, 47 292 visits Bo’ness,…plus highlights of the Severn Valley, East Lancs and Keighley & Worth diesel galas!

Note this is a DVD not a VHS tape despite what the sleeve says!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2003

Running time: 90-mins

Availability: AVAILABLE
Classification: Exempt
Number of discs: 1 DVD-R


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Ref: LP403D

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We thought we had covered just about every working imaginable in the previous 15 programmes in this series. We were wrong!! and no one is more surprised than us, because yet again we have more than enough footage to fill 90 minutes with just 5 months!! Here’s a small taster of what you can expect to see…

DRS Class 47s leaving Springburn Works following overhaul, Class 58s leave the UK for Spain, 20 301 + 37 610 on the mothballed Methil branch with the DRS freight trial to Cameron Bridge, Royal Mail diversions over the Chiltern Line, Class 31s venture to Fort William with the Ultrasonic Test Train, 56 114 working a Rhymney-Cardiff service, 37 038 on the Avonmouth-Crewe Cars, 47 270 hauling the Stanlow-Humber tanks, 47 197 on Heavy Haul coal duties, 46 035 hauling the Bristol-Old Oak Common mail vans, 56 018 at Tiverton (that’s Tiverton in Devon!) with a rake of HAA coal hoppers, 4 x DRS Class 37s on the Grangemouth-Daventry, Class 14 D9504 shunting steel traffic at Chatham Docks, 47 812 on the Dagenham-Calvert ‘Bins’, Class 31s return to Portsmouth Harbour on service trains, 87 001 transformed back into BR corporate blue, D1015 on the North Wales coast, 57 306 visits Whitby, EPS’s 73 130 on the Shepperton branch with the Serco Test Train, Class 33s on ‘Desiro’ stock moves for South West Trains, 31 459 ventures to Stranraer and Milngavie with an Inspection Saloon, Class 73s on the Barnstaple branch en-route to Meldon Quarry…and FOUR HST power cars running light engine from Longsight to Laira.

Note this is a DVD not a VHS tape despite what the sleeve says!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2003

Running time: 90-mins

Availability: AVAILABLE
Classification: Exempt
Number of discs: 1 DVD-R


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Ref: LP393D

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A project that has been eighteen months in the making is at long last available. TRACTION DECADE features the very best of the first 10 years of the TRACTION series which started back in 1995. Because of the volume of footage, this programme has a running time of three-and-a-half hours. Hence it is a double-disc DVD set. We shan’t even begin to attempt to list what’s on it, but if you’ve been collecting the series over the years you’ll have a good idea of what to expect. If you’ve yet to sample any of these highly-acclaimed programmes, it’s a great way of having the first 10 years all in one DVD box. Suffice to say, given the changes that have happened to the modern traction fleet over the past ten years, the content is, quite simply, staggering! In it you will see 10 years of…Rescues, Passenger substitutes, Freight substitutes, Off the beaten tracks, Arrivals, Farewells & departures, Liveries…and Railtours.

The programme features no fewer than 30 classes of diesel and electrics at work on the national network the length and breadth of Britain, from the humble 03 through classes 08, 09, 20, 31, 33, 37, 40, 43, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66, 67, 71, 73, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92 to the French Class 22000’s. As if that’s not enough, if also features a staggering 70 different locomotive liveries!

Although this is a ‘best of’, it is in fact a brand new programme as we have not only sourced all the original footage and digitally enhanced it, but it comes with a new and lively script which has been written and narrated by David Maxey. The programme also contains previously unseen footage as well as a few surprises in the running order!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2006

Running time: 210-mins

Availability: AVAILABLE
Classification: Exempt
Number of discs: 1 DVD-R


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