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Opening Scene: 48151 at Cowburn on her first railtour.

Railfreight: Ripple Lane Open Day and the launch of the new livery for Railfreight, also 48151 and 80080.

Railfreight: Hoover – 50149 in Devon, the North London Link and other Railfreight locos at work.

Cab Ride – York to Edinburgh: The driver’s view of the northern part of the East Coast Main Line on the Talisman, as electrification proceeds apace. Recorded on 30 October 1987.

All Change in the West Country: ‘Before and after’ views of Newton Abbot and Aller Junction, where the last of the semaphores have now gone and the last loco-hauled passenger train to Newquay, with double headed 50s.

Long Marston Open Day: The Army’s depot off the Oxford to Worcester line at Honeybourne, featuring the SVR’s 8233 8F on a heavy freight and the Army’s own diesels.

Requiem For The King?: King George Vs ‘last’ main line run, the Royal Sunset, together with workings in South Wales (where 6000 was the first King west of Swansea).

Vic Berry Leicester: A unique view of the famous scrapyard, where 25s and GUVs are piled high, cabs are scattered around, yet with messages of hope amongst the debris.

A Gala Autumn: Diesel and steam galas on the Severn Valley, North Yorkshire Moors and Llangollen, featuring Deltics, 40s (including D335), 7F, Taw Valley, Evening Star at Whitby, the return of Joem, double headed Jinty and Pannier and Foxcote Manor.

5305 Over Rannoch: The most enterprising special of the year was the SRPS train from Fort William to Glasgow on the West Highland, over Rannoch Moor. Since this is inaccessible to motor vehicles, we took to the air, to bring you stunning views of the wilds of the Moor and of course the famous Horseshoe Curve!

Archive From Stirling Video: Vintage footage from the heyday of steam, including a ROD on the turntable, the Lynton and Barnstaple, Talyllyn re-opening, a Coal Tank, Beattie 2-4-0WT, a Duchess at Carlisle, expresses at Low Gill including a green Duchess, a Scot and an original Patriot and first views of a major new 16mm colour collection. Pacifics at York, a red Duchess, a West Country, Pannier and Black Five at Oxford, a Midland 2F, and an A3 entering Newcastle from the castle! Most of the foregoing is in colour.

The West Somerset Railway (Part One): Britain’s longest preserved railway, from Minehead to Watchet, featuring S&D 7F 53808, Pannier 6412, Prairie 5572 and diesels, on passenger and freight.

News: This includes prototype 90001 on test, Metro-Cam 156, 319s at Snow Hill, Snow Hill (Birmingham), Moor Street closure, with 7029 and 46443, 7029 in South Wales, 6201 on the Borders, 48151 to Buxton, 71000 and Western Prince inside Crewe. 75069 and 35028 on John Player Special, 4771 returns north, Rotherham changes, Haddenham opens, Ian Allen Network Day, Pullman on KESR, Mid-Hants Gala with 34105, Met No.1 and 3H unit, Basingstoke Rail Week, with diesels galore, 7F 53809 and 6998, D200 at Exmouth Junction, also at Southport with the red EMU.

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Cover photo: Inter-City brown liveried 86228 crosses the River Stour at Manningtree on 11 April 1987.
First published on DVD: 1987 on VHS
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Opening Scene: Two 50s on Shap again.

Winter Steam: A round-up of workings on preserved railways in 1987/88 including Mid-Hants, East Somerset, Butterley, Market Bosworth, Yorkshire Dales, KWVR, Middleton, GWR, Torbay, Llangollen, Brecon, Welshpool and Talyllyn!

Cab Ride – Cardiff to Birmingham: Aboard a 155, travelling up the Severn, through Shrub Hill and Kidderminster.

Goodbye to the Hoods: English China Clay operations on British Rail including unloading Clay Hoods at Fowey.

Spotlight on Ely: Semaphores rule at this East Anglia junction – hub of the local system.

The Birkenhead Shunters: The last three 03s on BR still work the docks on Merseyside – we travel over the roads with them.

The West Somerset Railway (Part Two): Completion of our profile of Britain’s longest preserved railway, from Williton (where we see shunting in action) to Bishop’s Lydeard.

The Gap Closes: Last semaphores at Kettering as the ‘Leicester Gap’ is eliminated.

Great Central Progress: Witherslack Hall and Mayflower are seen bringing back memories of 1948 and TPOs.

Archive Film: From the Richard Willis Collection we re-live Great Central days at Birstall and Loughborough, and see the last days of steam in the 60s around BR.

News: Plenty of action, from ‘City of Wells’, 2005, 5305, 4472, 4498, 6201, 45 and 50 railtours, HST on the S&C, Skipper in the Northwest, Carlisle’s Green DMU, HSTs and DVTs, 90001/3, 91001, 89001, 442, 33s and TCs, 73 and 3REP, D200 on the Southern.

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Cover photo: Black 5 44941 leaving Loughborough Central with a down GC local just before closure in June 1966.
First published on DVD: 1988 on VHS
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Opening Scene: T9 and M7 double heading on the Mid-Hants!

Wessex Changes: Bournemouth Open Day and stock workings of 319, 455, 155, Hastings Unit, 33 and crane, etc, the launch of the 442s, inside a 442, the record run, timetable chaos, 73s double pushing, 5TC, Weymouth electrics, last 33 railtours, Poole sleepers, etc.

Cab Ride – Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth: The Cambrian Main Line at last! Filmed in perfect weather just before the summer timetables, through the centre of Wales to the coast.

Welsh Manors: Foxcote and Odney back at work in Wales, on the Llangollen and Gwili Railways, with freight and passengers, with Tyseley’s ‘Rent-a-loco’ 7752 on the Gwili.

Festiniog 125: Spring celebrations with a red Fairlie, Prince, the visiting Russell and double-headers.

D200 Farewell: Last runs in April! From the Conway Valley via East Anglia to the National Railway Museum at York – will she ever work again?

Archive: More from Richard Willis, featuring freight in the 60s, with B1s and 9Fs and a close look at Britannia’s in their last days.

Ireland 1988: The RPSIs ‘Shannon Railtour’ of early May, featuring LMS (NCC) 2-6-4T No.4, J15 0-6-0 No.184 and Compound No.85 on another hectic round of the Emerald Isle – 800 miles of steam!

Maiden Newton Signal Box: A signalman’s day, in a box closed in May. We visited this crossing loop box on the Castle Cary to Weymouth line to record a disappearing facet of railway operation.

Preservation: The Tanfield Railway – This North-East based industrial line has the most fascinating workings: from a 1937 diesel to steam shunters, with a demonstration of goods workings and four-wheel passenger stock.

News: Main Line Steam (4468, 4498, 92220, 34092, etc), Woking 150, Port Line on the Bluebell, Green T9, 3205 on WSR, DH 50s, 20s, SVR Diesel Weekend with a 59, ‘Port Sunlight’ with 4566, 91 on the ECML, 31s and 45s on last workings, celebrate 150 years of ‘Mail by Rail’, etc.

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Cover photo: D113 and D5267 head an express past Chinley East Junction past a superb Midland gantry in 1964: 1988 will probably see the end of Peaks on BR.
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Opening Scene: Mallard at Greenfields on the climb to Diggle.

The End of the News: Newspaper traffic ceased on 10 July 1988. During the last week we see a 50 at Dawlish, a 31 giving way to an 85 at Preston, a DPU at Blackpool, a van train at Lancaster and a 73 at London Bridge.

Cab Ride – Aberdeen to Inverness: The Great North of Scotland and Highland Railways’ main line viewed from the cab of 47515 on the 09.05. See what the driver sees!

Archive Film: The ‘Scottish Tour 1960’ was filmed by Cam Camwell, covering the same area as our Cab Ride, but twenty-eight years earlier! Gordon Highlander is seen at home in the GNSR line to Macduff and on the main line at Invararie and an immaculate 2P takes the train on. A Black 5 takes the Dava line at Forres and we end at Inverness with the ‘Jones Goods’ (all in colour).

Salisbury Steam: Gerald Daniels has acquired a name for innovation and this year’s “Blackmore Vale Express” programme included an 8F on main line goods. Andover to Romsey trains and an exciting ride in an Inspection Saloon as City of Wells ran alongside on a parallel track! Detailed coverage of what may be the last ‘Southern Steam’ ever!

Drummond Over the Alps: The Mid-Hants Railway was the temporary home of the NRM’s non-working M7 No. 245 in the summer of 1988 and ran it ahead of T9 No. 120 on a unique ride over the line “double headed”. This is the full story of a never to be repeated day.

The Foxfield Railway: One of the lesser-known preserved railways, the Foxfield Railway celebrated 21 years of preservation in 1988, featuring industrial tanks on fierce gradients. This is one of the most fascinating lines there is!

Sentinel at Middleton: Repainted into BR Departmental livery on the 1950’s, No.54 captures the real flavour of those years as she takes a good train along the Middleton Railway in the heart of industrial Leeds.

Rails at Westoe: 1980’s industrial working at and around Westoe Colliery on South Tyneside featuring the unique NCB electric shunters on the quayside.

Freight in South Wales: The first part of a review on BR freight workings in the heartland of Wales, around Newport and district, featuring 37’s in Railfreight liveries, a 08 shunting at Newport Docks, East Usk Yard, etc.

News: Includes a 90 on revenue work, 91 and 89 with a DVT Mallard, Silver Link and Sir Nigel Gresley at York. “Mallard 88” tours on the East Coast, S&C etc, 92220, 3440, Defiant, 6201, 80080, 34092, 48151 on main line tours. 41708 at Swanage, 5572 at Llangollen, 6106 on the Nene Valley, red 141s, the green 45, etc.

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Cover photo: 34092 City of Wells, near Milborne Port on the LSWR West of England main line on 9 July 1988
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Opening Scene: 34092 on the Settle & Carlisle on her last northbound run.

Dalwhinnie Daze: A ‘spotlight’ feature on this remote Scottish Highland station that exercises a strange fascination, as it seems lost in time but for the variety of modern traction from HSTs to 47s, 37s and 26s.

Cab Ride – Carlisle to Glasgow: This long-awaited cab ride was recorded on 8 November 1988 aboard 86250 on the Caledonian Main Line over Beattock.

Diesel Galas: The modern traction enthusiasts have been well served recently by the preserved railways. We cover Galas on the Severn Valley, Worth Valley and East Lancs.

The Real End of BR Steam: The Vale of Rheidol celebrated a sad event on Bonfire Night – its last special day under BR control. Naturally we covered this with shed and lineside scenes of Numbers 7 and 8 in action.

DMU/Bus Replacements – On Hire to British Railways: Re-opening of the Glanrhyd Bridge on the Heart of Wales line including DMU in the river, terminating trains and the re-opened bridge. Also track-lifting on the S&C between Garsdale and Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

Archive: More steam archive from the Cam Camwell Collection.

Black 5s Today: One of the most numerous steam classes has become one of the most numerous in preservation. We see eight examples: 5000 on the Severn Valley, 5231 on the Great Central, 45428 and 44767 on the North Yorkshire Moors plus 5305, 5407, 44871 and 44932 on the Main Line.

Clapham and Waterloo: By contrast to the above, this is a feature on the signal boxes at the busiest junction in the world and one of its feeder termini. Plenty of action here!

Bluebell Hayling: The Bluebell Railway’s tribute to the Hayling Island Branch which closed 25 years ago.

Footplateman of the Year: Our first visit to the Dean Forest Railway was to see how various crews from around the country responded to the challenge to find the ‘Footplateman of the Year’.

News: As always a round-up of all that’s interesting, from new freight turns to new liveries, the green Peak, Railtours, Open Days, Winchfield 150, more ‘last’ Salisbury steam. Clun to Marylebone, 48151 on the S&C, plus much more.

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Cover photo: The Tamar Bridge in 1959, its Centenary Year.
Written by: Jeremy English
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Opening Scene: 47519 heads newly-named Avocet (89001) out of Leeds with the wires switched off.

Provincial Problems: The mass withdrawal of Class 155 Sprinters with door troubles saw rapid redeployment of 37s, 47s, 31s, DMUs, 150s, 156s and Pacers throughout the county. The feature shows the effects!

Cab Ride – Liverpool Street to King’s Lynn: Network Anglia’s main line to Cambridge is electrified and the continuation to the town on the Wash will soon be dealt with. Our cab ride, recorded on 8 March 1989 takes us from the suburban sprawl of East London through Essex to the Fens, with plenty of semaphones at Ely.

Winter Workings – Part One: Pre-Christmas trains at Bo’ness, Leighton Buzzard, Loughborough (52XX and 49XX), Butterley (48151), Ingrow (Standard Class 4 and 61XX), Paignton and Churston (4555) and Rolvendon Road.

Winter Workings – Part Two: After Christmas at Bitton, in South Wales at Blaenavan, in the Midlands at Chasewater, with ‘Asbestos’ and a first (and maybe last) visit to Dinting to see ‘Scots Guardsman’ and ‘Bahamas’, back at last.

Archive Film – North Wales: With steam returning to the North Wales Coast Line in 1989, we look back to 1963 to see Black 5s, Fairburn tanks, BR Standards and so on at Llandudno Junction and Prestatyn, Bangor and Colwyn Bay.

Preservation – The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (Part One): A return visit to our first-ever featured railway, to see progress on this magnificent line through a national park, with the standard tank, Black 5s, J72, the Lambton tank and 56xx, as well as the Class 24 diesel, working from Grosmont up to the summit at Fylingdales.

Swanage Progress: Another expanding railway, the Swanage Railway on the Isle of Purbeck is rapidly returning across the heathland to Harmans Cross, Corfe Castle and Furzebrook. 1F and 3F tanks are seen separately and double heading, on the Harmans Cross opening day. We also visit Swindon Works to see progress on the line’s Standard tank, 34072 and 30053, and the M7 which returned from the USA.

The Channel Tunnel: Now progressing rapidly, this feature shows ‘Bodmin’ at the Isle of Grain terminal, work in progress at Shakespeare Cliff, the model of the British terminal at Folkestone and its associated Exhibition, but mainly concentrates on the action – the traffic generated in Kent by Channel Tunnel requirements, with Classes 33 and 56 on heavy freights.

A Bridge Too Far: The bridge connecting the Far North lines to Inverness was washed away in February 1989, marooning 37s and coaches on ‘the other side’. With Sprinters due to be ‘bussed in’, we view Dingwall, the new terminus and the remains of the bridge itself, also a washout near Rannock.

News: Busy times on the ECML with 89001, 91s and an 86. S&C diversions and Warcop branch closure, 31412 in ‘Engineer’s Drab’. An A4 to Bridgenorth, the K1 on the ‘Sub’ and the ECML at Newcastle, 4771s test run and S&C journey. 48151 on the S&C and Clan Line also on the S&C and testing on the North Wales Coast Main Line. A Railfreight 20 at Stoke and new underground units, a DVT and a ‘Bubblecar’ at Culgaith are amongst our features!

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Cover photo: A West Highland train of the past, with a Railscene crew aboard!
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Opening Sequence: 45596 Bahamas leaves Nottingham in a cloud of smoke.

Midland Counties 150: The celebrations of the 150th year, with the naming of the red 47 at Derby, steam railtours over the S&C with 48151 and from Derby to Nottingham with 80080 and 45596, ending with the show at Nottingham with D9000, D100, etc.

Cab Ride – Crewe to Penrith: The ‘missing piece’ of our WCML coverage, through Warrington, Wigan and Carnforth and up the southern slopes of Shap.

Didcot Doubles: 3440 City of Truro’ returning South at Water Orten and on a railtour at Banbury before visiting Didcot to double head with the other surviving double-framed 4-4-0, the Dukedog.

BR Newslines: ‘Killer 20s’ – The weed-killing train in the South, 20s at Nottingham, Inter-City Diesel Day, naming a 90, Inter-City EMU, red and yellow Tyne and Wear units, NNW, Provincial 47, 50049 returns, Cambridge changes and 60001 emerges.

Beyond the Bridge: An historical record of the transfer of Sprinters by road to the Far North, from Inverness by low-loader, last shunting at Georgemas Junction and green and cream stock to the Kyle.

Spotlight Shrewsbury: A comprehensive examination of the railway at the famous cross-roads on the Welsh Borders, from the station to inside the signal boxes, with 37s, 47s, Sprinters, etc, with the famous Western Semaphores.

Preservation News: Llangollen double-headed Manors and freight Pannier. Pannier and Ivatt at Swanage, Evening Star in Somerset again, 38xx on the Nene Valley, Diesels on the Severn Valley, double-headed Hydraulics in Lancashire, also D2595 and 24081 and the return of the ‘King’, 6024 at Quainton Road.

Archive Film – The 1950s: Never previously issued footage of BR in the 1950s from ‘Cam’ Camwell – this is what it really was like!

Push/Pull Changes: The amazing variety of push/pull workings on the Southern, from 33/1s and 73/1s with three REPs, TCBs, etc, contrast with BR’s new face of push/pull on the ECML and WCML. This feature covers both sides including the first 91 to Bradford, DVTs with 86s and 90s and the Scottish angle with a 47/7!

Preserved Railways – The North Yorkshire Moors (Part Two): ‘Dame Vera Lynn’ and 6619 in glorious Newtondale, the 24 at Newtondale Halt with a freight, 2005 in the woods, 44767 at Lewisham, a Deltic and 69023 on a goods train at Pickering.

Main Line Steam: The final ‘news’ section, with 4498 at Marylebone, 34027 and 45596 on test and on first railtours. 44932 and 80080 to Lincoln, 48151 at Blackburn, 4771 in full flight on the S&C, 35028 coming South, 5407 to Crewe, 5080 at Hereford (failed!), 6201 at Hereford (working!), 6998 at Llanvihangel, 34027 at Wooferton, then going to North Wales, two Bulleids at Llandudno Junction! and 35028 passing Conway Castle. Finally, the K4 on test on the main line.

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Cover photo: 73132 and 73111 head TCs 8019 and 8007 through the New Forest near Woodfidley on 14 June 1988. See our feature on push/pull changes.
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Opening Scene: 5407 lifts a NWCE out of Holyhead on 26 August 1989.

North Wales Steam: Our definitive coverage of 6201, 5407, 34027 and 35028 at work during the summer of 1989. Features include all four engines at the Crewe Heritage Centre, 6201s departure from Crewe, Beeston Castle, Chester, Chester Arches, along the Dee Estuary, a spectacular express at Mostyn, the Junction and branch at Llandudno, Conway, the coast at Penmanmawr, Bangor, the Brittania Bridge, Gaerwen, Bodorgan, the triangle at Valley and finally 6201 at Holyhead.

Archive Film: Our extracts from Cam Camwell’s collection starts with 46201 at Carlisle, with Black 5s, a Jubilee, Jinties, Fairburns, 4Fs on Ribblehead, Ais Gill, Appleby, Warcop, the North East with WD 2-8-0s, J27, Q6, K1, etc and a branch visit to the Dean Forest, at Tufts Junction, Parkend and Coleford Junction, etc.

Forest Freight: The Dean Forest today, with a look to the future, consists of a steam-hauled freight from Norchard to Parkend.

Preservation News: 53807 on the WSR, 4566 on the Caley, action on the North Norfolk with 69023, the 27 and a German railbus, the Caley 0-4-4T to Birkhill in Scotland, an O2 and AIX on the Isle of Wight, Progress on the Tanfield.

The Sittingbourne & Kemsley Railway: Three beautiful narrow gauge industrial tanks at work alongside Bowater’s works in North Kent.

Main Line Steam News: Chesham 100 with No 1 ‘Sarah’ and 9466 on LT metals, Bahamas at Agecroft and on the S&C, Green Arrow at Ais Gill, The Great Marquess at Mouldsworth, Sheriff’s Brow, Glenfinnan, Whalley and Shrewsbury, Taw Valley at Crewe Gresty Lane and Clan Line in the Stroud Valley and leaving Marylebone.

Cab Ride – Carlisle to Newcastle: Aboard Provincial’s ‘Tyne Trader’ over this superb route, which includes semaphores, crossing gates and Pacers, 47s and freights.

Return to the Low Country: 27000 Electra went back to her adoptive home in the summer 1989 and we see her together with her sister 1501 and other NS 150 exhibits including steam at Utrecht and in action at Hock van Holland, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and so on.

Railway Technical Centre, Derby – Part 1: An introduction to the work of the Railway Technical Centre at Derby with the Dynamometer House, the Track Testing Laboratory, the EDU workshops, with the NSE Snowblower, the second Mark 4 DVT, RTC 47s and a great variety of stock.

BR Today – The Medway Valley: The subject of a second modernisation, this Kentish byway still sports beautiful semaphores and crossing gates. CEPs, EPBs, a 56, 73s and a 47 are seen in September 1989.

BR Newslines: Summer Specials at Festiniog and Stanhope, orange DMUs and Sprinter in Scotland, three-car 156s on the West Highland, Chipman’s weedkillers, 59005 in Kent, ‘new’ IOW units, ‘84009’, 91050 and 31461 at York, the first 91/Mark 4 train, a 442 off and on the road, 50025 (RIP), 50019 at Severn Tunnel Junction on an HST!

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Cover photo: Lord Linsey’s Gresley K4 3442 back ‘at home’ near Glen Finnan on the West Highland on 20 July 1989 – a scene from our Main Line News feature.
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Contents: Opening Scene: 5305 on BRs centenary celebration train near Tulloch.

West Highland Steam: A major feature on this year’s steam programme on the Mallaig route, with 3442, 5305 and 44871. Spectacular scenery and steam, with the K4s momentous visit, add up to the best year yet since steam returned. Includes shots of all three engines at Fort William Shed and a lineside journey down the line to Mallaig and back and over Rannock to Tyndrum and Crianlarich.

Archive: 1965 memories, all in colour, at Perth, Glasgow, Ryde, Shanklin and Shrewsbury, with Classes A4, A2, Black 5s, BR 5s, O2, Britannia, etc.

Main Line Steam News: Autumn’s highlights on BRs main lines, with 34027, 5407, 6201, 44932 and 4998. Down Under: The steam world was turned upside down when we lost ‘Flying Scotsman’ to Oz, but she met ‘Pendennis Castle’ there. These are highlights of their meeting in West Australia.

Deltics: Six of these magnificent machines remain today – we see them all work on the SVR, GCR, Midland Trust and NYMRs.

Cab Ride – Hull to Scarborough: We take a 144 along this coastal line, complete with semaphores and level crossing gates.

West Anglia (Part One) Cambridge Area: N7 at Cambridge, together with lineside views of diversions of 91s, HSTs, 47s, etc. Also a 73 in the Fens, a 56 with 310s, Middleton Towers and so on. A comprehensive review of the West Anglian Scene.

West Anglia (Part Two) King’s Lynn Days: A typical day on this line, soon to be electrified, during the period of electrification. With 20s, 31s, 47s, DMUs, engineers trains, etc.

Preservation News Focus: Progress on the East Lancs, with engineering trains to Rawtenstall, BR Moguls return, SVR diesel gala with D100, K4 on SVR, Prairie on West Somerset, last loco at Barry, Port Line, etc.

Industrial Galas: The Tanfield and Middleton Railways – with quite a variety of small steamers!

The WR Inspection Train: Lineside and on-board views of the Western’s Track Recording Train, from Swindon to Bristol and Salisbury – Fascinating!

BR News Lines: A comprehensive review of all that’s going on today, featuring Sandites, 33s 47s in many colours, VSOE at Ropley, 86s 56s and 20s on the S&C, the first class 158, 91s and Mark 4s and top and tailed Class 60s.

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Cover photo: D9016 Gordon Highlander in Haworth Yard on 5 November 1989 as featured in this volume
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Opening Scene: 71000 Duke of Gloucester storms Woodhouse bank on her test run.

Freight in the Welsh Valleys – Part 2: Park Junction signal box, 47016 light engine, 37698 on a freight, Lime Kilm sidings in 1990 and 1987, Oakdale colliery before closure, 56120, Abercarn, Aberbeeg, Ebbw Vale, marine colliery, Waunllwyd sidings and a Sentinel at Machen – a portrait of a rapidly-reduced coal network in Wales.

The End of the Line: Holborn viaduct closed on 26 January 1990, we visited it on its last day, to see service trains and rebuilding in progress.

Cab Ride – Brighton to Victoria: The opposite way to the famous five minute run! Not at very high speed, our usual ‘highlights’.

BR Newslines: Packed full! Changes in South Yorkshire – Kirton Lindsay, Worksop, Bradford, Outwood – New HST livery, Pacers at Altofts and Castleford, changes at Normanton and Goose Hill (with 45007 in 1987) 56s at Crofton, Salisbury (on a passenger train) and Cottam, S&C ‘special weekends’, with 58, 20s, 37, 26 and 25 Tamworth Castle, including her test runs, 26s on the Waroop line, traintours stock, 31s on passenger trains, 158 on test in Scotland, 60 in the south, Isle of Wight 483s at Fleet, Windsor celebrations.

Vintage Sunday: A special ‘filming day’ was prepared for us by the KESR, featuring matched vintage trains – the AIX with Maunsell green coaches and the ‘P’ with a mixed freight.

Testing 1,2,3,4!: Four steamers were put under the spotlight by Colin Wood and Company. 777 is seen at Derby, Clay Cross, Sheffield and Belper, 6024 at Litchurch Lane, Lapworth and Banbury, 60009 (+60009!) at Derby, Beighton and Dore, 71000 at Spondon, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Dorridge and Banbury.

Preservation News: D306 leaves the GCR, 40s at Bury, Hymek at Bury, Austerities at Bury, Swanage and Rolvenden, 1618 Mogul at Horsted Keynes, 76017 at Ropley, Jinty at Hammersmith, Diesels at Embsay and Ingrow and USA at Haworth.

No.9 and the Forth Bridge: 60009 at Bridgnorth and on test on the SVR, the Forth Bridge on its Centenary 60009 Osprey at Waverley, on the Bridge, at Haymarket and driver training at Burntisland.

Steamscene Archive: A4s in Scotland, from Eddie Stanbridge, including 60007 on the Forth Bridge, 60031 at Waverley, 60019 & 60016 at Gleneagles, 60006 & 60026 at Dunblane, 60009 at Perth, 60023 on a freight, also 60052 (A3), 60528 (A2), V2s, B1s, etc. Also ‘Southern Specials’ from Geoff Holyoake, with a Q1, 33006, U Mogul 31639 and Standard 77014 on the Southern in the 60s.

Main Line Steam News: 5305 at Fort William, alongside Loch Trieg, at Crianlarich in the dark, in Edinburgh on the ‘Sub’, 5407 at Blackburn, Stainforth and Carlisle, 60009 at Langwathby, 3442 at Gerrards Cross, West Wycombe and Belper Kirkstall Junction and Settle Junction 34027 at High Wycombe, Saunderton and Stratford, 777 at Knappa and Sherriff’s Brow.

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Cover photo: 60009 at Derby on her test run, featured in this issue.
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Opening Scene: 46229 at Birkett Common on Friday, 13 April 1990.

Cab Ride – Paddington to Bristol: Along Brunel’s famous ‘billiard table’ route of the original Great Western Main Line, including operating hazards!

DEMU Demise Delayed: Electrification of the Solent routes of NSE should have spelt the end of the DEMUs. They survive and here we see their old and new habitats, including the last ‘Hastings’ unit, 205s and 207s etc.

Forging Forward: The Deeside Extension of the Llangollen Railway, the Northern Extension of the KESR and East Grinstead Extension of the Bluebell.

ARPS 30 – The Talyllyn Railway: Part One – Archive footage of the last working and first preserved days of the preservation pioneer. Part Two – Preparation. On shed at Pendre with No’s 2, 3, 5 and 8, steam and diesel.

Just Another Mayday: The effects on the May timetable changes of 158 delays. 50s in the Thames Valley, 47/7s in Scotland, 101 in Scotland, 86 and 321s in Northampton, 33/1s and TCs, 6 Rep, Orange DMUs in England.

BR Newslines: Channel Tunnel Trials with 83301, 73s on the juice at Botley, green EMU, 91011 and a mouse, Tamworth Castle, Red 47 (official) Penny Black, Railfreight 90, 60s at Loughborough, Corby, from start to finish.

Dart Valley Revival: Enthusiasts have taken over the DVR again! Two Panniers shunt pick-up goods trains at Buckfastleigh.

Preservation News Focus: Freight at Middleton, USA 2-8-0 on Mid-Hants, Pannier at Rothley, WG Railcar at Bewdley, 40 back at East Lancs, padiham opens with Bellerophon, Dinting’s last days, with the Coal Tank KVWR Gala, with Bahamas, K4 and ‘Railway Children’.

Ffestiniog Freight: Prince and the gravity trains …long promised!

Nuclear Traffic (Part One): An explosive feature! We follow 31s with flasks from Llandudno Junction to Trawsfynnedd, up the WCML to Sellafield and view shunting inside the reprocessing plant.

Main Line Steam: 4472’s return, 3442 on the ‘Sir Bob’, 60009 to Aberdeen, 6024 and 5080 at Tyseley on the ‘Shakespeare Express’, 71000’s first two rail tours, 34027 returns to the SVR, 35028 and 44932 to Derby and Sheffield, the ‘Duchess’ returns, 46229 on test and the S&C, 45596 and 777 on the S&C and 46203’s main line debut.

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Cover photo: 71000 Duke of Gloucester at Didcot North Junction of it's first rail tour – featured in this volume
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Introduction: No. 3 ‘Sir Haydn’ leaves Nant Gwernol on the Tal-y-llyn.

Steam on the Met: We were invited by LUL to film Met No.1 Pannier 9466 and Standard Tank 80080 at work on the Metropolitan main line during July 1990. This is a major feature which includes the engines on shed at Ruislip and Neasden, as well as at work on the main line, changing engines at Amersham, special staff workings, including No.1 on the Stanmore branch, unique footage of No.1 at Baker Street on the Circle Line and Upminster Open Day with no.1 on the shuttle.

Cab Ride – Salisbury to Waterloo: Last of the principal main lines into London. Unlikely to be electrified now, the Salisbury line will ‘make do’ with 50s until Networker Turbos take over in 1992. We rode aboard 50023 ‘Howe’ to the Southern’s future Channel Tunnel terminal in July 1990.

Gloucester Rail Day: One of the most ambitious railtour programmes yet shows an immense variety of workings to Gloucester for its ‘Rail Day’. This feature concentrates on the railtours rather than the exhibition, including fascinating ‘double-enders’ ( two 37s at each end of a train!) and rare motive power and branches (including Sharpness).

Preservation News Focus: Action on the Bluebell, Swanage, Cholsey and Wallingford, Yorkshire Dales, West Somerset, GWR, Bo’ness and Strathspey as they gear up for the Summer!

The Middleton Railway: This, the first standard gauge preserved railway, is the subject of our profile in ARPS 30, with its fascinating collection of vintage locomotives and stock, including the unique visit of the first privately-preserved standard gauge locomotive, GNR 0-6-0ST No.1247 and archive film of the railway.

BR Newslines: Tamworth Castle and 47407 at Garsdale, Red 47533 and 86419, the ‘Butterfly Train’ on Tyneside, Grangetown branch, Killer 20s again, 37 to Weymouth, Haymarket at Oxford, DBSO in Anglia, backward 91, 307s and 322s Yorkshire, 320 in Glasgow, 156 to Edinburgh and three 37s together!

60s In Action: Railfreight’s newest main line diesels are still rather difficult to find at work, but we have been out and about to record them and to see the latest deliveries from – and to – Brush at Loughborough. We also visit Procor at Wakefield to see the bodies being built!

Railfreight Customers 1 -Tioxide UK: We visit Immingham Dock in foul weather to see ilmenite (a black sticky substance) being unloaded – and blown everywhere – for rail transhipment on the once-a-month Class 9 unfitted along the Grimsby and Immingham Tramway, behind a class 37, to the premises of paint manufacturers Tioxide UK. Also seen are industrial diesels and a 47.

The Talyllyn Railway (Part Two): Celebrating the 40th Anniversary Year of this pioneer line, this part takes up up the railway in the Summer of 1990.

Main Line Steam: Here it is! Fourteen more main line steam engines at work: 2005 and 5305 in Scotland, 6024 and 71000 on the Welsh Borders, 71000, 4472, 34027 and 6201 in North Wales, 35028 and 53809 on the ‘White Rose’ and 46229, 45596, 777, 44871 and 60009 on the S&C!

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Cover photo: The NRM’s GNR Class J52 No.1247 at Moor Road on the Middleton Railway, featured in this issue on 24 June 1990.
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