The "Traction" Series

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 37401 Mary Queen of Scots returns to main line action with DRS; Colas’s 60096 working the Immingham-Santon iron ore; 70801 becomes the first of its Class to reach Colnbrook; Colas classmate 70802 being trialled on the Preston Docks bitumen; overhauled 60056 working the St Pancras-Ketton cement empties with its bodysides still in primer; recently-reinstated 56104 on the Calvert-Willesden spoil; 50007 Hercules & 50017 Royal Oak handle the Washwood Heath to Boston steel empties; the rare sight of a Class 56-hauled engineers train in East Sussex; GBRf’s 59003 Yeoman Highlander finally leaves Eastleigh Works; Colas take over the haulage of the Dalston tanks; a five loco convoy of Class 67s heading from Wembley to Dollands Moor for servicing; 70805 being trialled on the Carlisle to Chirk timber; pairs of GBRf Class 47s on the Drax to Hotchley Hill gypsum; Network Rail re-instates 31233 for test train duties; 37057, 37116 and 37421 all return to main line use with Colas; 92030 leaving Britain for Bulgaria...and Schenker’s 90040 is reinstated to traffic after a ten year absence!

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: Traction variety on Serco’s Anglo-Scottish sleepers is provided by 47812, 66710, 86101 & Freightliner’s 90045; GWR-liveried 57605 working its first sleeper train in eight months; 73966 working empty sleeper stock from Polmadie to Edinburgh; Deltic 55022 in its latest guise as 55007 Pinza; GBRf’s ‘Noah’s Arc’ charity train from Edinburgh to Crewe featuring pairs of Class 20s, 47s and 66s; 67026 working an empty stock move on the re-opened Borders Railway to Tweedbank; 86259 celebrates its 50th birthday by returning to the main line; 20305 & 20308 venture into Devon...and the first HSTs to work into London Marylebone!

THERE’S ALSO: Electrostar moves between Ramsgate and Derby using DCR’s 31452, Freightliner’s 47830, UKRL’s 56104 and Europhoenix’s reinstated 37884; preserved 58016 being moved from Barrow Hill to Leicester; 56098 & 56104 hauling FGW Mark 3 stock from Laira to Kilmarnock; GBRf Class 20s on RHTT duties on the Tattenham Corner branch; 56301 hauling a London Midland Class 323 EMU from Tyseley to Soho; 66769 delivering the first Siemens-built Class 700 EMU to Three Bridges; three Eurotunnel Krupp diesel locomotives hauling a new Eurostar E320 over the HS1 route in Kent; 47712 returns to action at the Weardale Railway in original Scotrail livery...and the extraordinary sight of a pair of Hastings DEMU power cars dragging a Southeastern Electrostar from Canterbury West to Ramsgate!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2016

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Running Time: 100-mins (1hr 40min)

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 50007 Hercules & 50017 Royal Oak working the Sinfin tanks and the Boston steel; Heavy Haul’s 66514 banking GBRf’s failed 66721 and its train up Beattock bank; 56091 on hire to DCR for the Willesden-Calvert spoil; 47727 hauling a Railvac to Liskeard; Large Logo 47847 enters traffic for GB Railfreight on the Drax gypsum; 68001 ventures to Scunthorpe with a rail train from York; 92033 hauling a rake of coal empties on the East Coast Main Line; 20096 & 20107 working a loaded ballast train across London; Colas take over the tank traffic to Preston Docks, Rectory Junction and Colnbrook; pairs of Schenker 90s take over West Coast automotive and intermodal services; newly-converted GBRf Class 73/9s on test; 50007 Hercules hauling two coal wagons to Gloucester; 20205 returns to the main line after 26 years on a loaded test run to Peak Forest; Freightliner return 47830 to the main line in British Railways two tone green livery...and the first main line outing in 19 years for GBRf’s repatriated 59003 Yeoman Highlander.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 37516 and 87002 on Serco’s new Caledonian sleepers; DRS Class 37s on the first day of Northern?Rail passenger services on the Cumbrian Coast; GBRf operating the luxury ‘Royal Scotsman’ with Class 66 and Deltic haulage; DRS Class 68s take over the loco-hauled Fife Circle commuter trains; the return of 55003 Meld; Class 57 failures galore on the ‘Night Riviera’ sleepers; Deltic D9009 Alycidon hauling the Orient Express over the Chilterns...and 08644 arriving at Plymouth with the ‘Laira Liaison’ charity charter train.

THERE’S ALSO: 47798 Prince William repainted into Res Royal Train livery; 20901 & 20905 venture to Tattenham Corner on snow & ice duties; 50007 Hercules moving a tamper from Norwich to Washwood Heath; 47812 hauling the Wensleydale Railway’s Mark 2 coaches to Doncaster; 66522 moving DEMU 1118 from the West Somerset Railway to the Dartmoor Railway; Heavy Haul’s 70011 on an ‘Electrostar’ EMU move from Derby to Asfordby; 37706 returning a DMU to Swanage; 59003 Yeoman Highlander visits the West Somerset Railway; the Bluebell Railway’s Deltic diesel gala; the tenth Swanage diesel gala, featuring the first runs in preservation of 56006 and Class 37 D6757, the return of 50035 Ark Royal in BR blue....and the Grid clag shot of the year, courtesy of 56006!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2015

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Running Time: 100-mins (1hr 40min)

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: pairs of Riviera Class 47s on GBRf’s Drax gypsum traffic; new DRS Class 68s on Mountsorrel and Shap ballast and on Scottish intermodal traffic; 47812 ventures to Kilmarnock to collect new-build Ecofret wagons for GBRf; 50007 Hercules on the Boston steel; Balfour Beatty-liveried 20142 & 20189 on RHTT duties at London Victoria; Colas Class 37s on test runs and RHTT duties; 59003 returns to the UK from Germany; overhauled Colas Class 60s on test and in traffic; DB?Schenker’s 60040 rescuing Colas Rail’s Sinfin tanks; Scotrail-liveried 90019 on the Millerhill-Tyne Yard infrastructure trip; new GBRf Class 66s being unloaded at Newport Docks; 73961 undergoing testing at the Great Central Railway; the first Colas Class 70 to work the Boston steel; the first main line runs of re-instated 56091 for Heavy Haul and 56103 for DCR; 73128 returns to the main line for GBRf; West Coast Railways’ 37688 hauling a crane from Eastleigh to Hornsey; 66084 de-railed at Brocklesby...and 47812, 68009 and 70807 on RHTT moves from York Works.

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Tour De France additional loco-hauled services featuring DRS Class 47s & 57s and 67006 hauling the Virgin ‘Pretendolino’; a short-formation FGW HST working an Oxford-Paddington DMU service; 57305 & 57312 re-painted into Northern Belle livery; 68014 working the first Class 68-hauled charter train; D1015 Western Champion ventures to Kent on the ‘Canterbury Champion’ railtour; 40145 visits Saltburn on the ‘Cleveland Potter’; 47815 on a GBRf staff special to Great Yarmouth; DRS haulage for Virgin’s ‘Welsh Warrior’ Mark 3 farewell; multiple Class 57 failures and traction combinations on FGW’s Night Riviera sleepers...and 91111 unveiled in WW1 remembrance livery.

THERE’S ALSO: 50017 Royal Oak returns to the main line after 14 years; Crompton D6515 taking DMU vehicles from Swanage to Eastleigh?Works; FGW’s 57605 at Ipswich hauling the Virgin ‘Pretendolino’ from Wembley to Norwich; 73119 & 73136 hauling the vintage ‘Chesham’ coaches from the Bluebell Railway to West Ruislip; 73961 working its first passenger train on the GCR; 47714 on EMU shunting duties at Asfordby; DRS Class 57s on a snowplough test run in Kent; London Underground Schoma diesel locos hauling the 1960 Cravens tube stock at the Epping & Ongar Railway; 68007 visits the Mid-Norfolk Railway; nine Class 14s hauling a passenger train at the East Lancashire Railway...and prototype HST power car 41001 hauling its first passenger train in 38 years!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2015

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 50007 Hercules returns to the main line for Colas to work the Boston steel; 87002 on hire to GBRf for the Mossend-Carlisle infrastructure trip; West Coast Railways’ 33029 on departmental duties; the only working of 56096 in Europhoenix livery - rescuing a failed Colas 66; Riviera Trains’ 47815 & 47843 on hire to GBRf for the Goole sand and on wagon moves to Immingham; 57306 also on hire to GBRf for biomass trains to Ironbridge power station; 60066 hauling the Halewood-Southampton cars; DCR Class 56s working over the Chilterns on spoil trains to Calvert, Colas Rail’s 70805 working the Bristol to Felixstowe Freightliner; test runs of the new DRS Class 68s including 68004 working the Daventry-Mossend intermodal; 55022 Royal Scots Grey on a Kilmarnock to Mossend wagon move; 60087 enters traffic for Colas; 20142 & 20189 receive Balfour Beatty livery; 37884 re-painted in Europhoenix livery; the first workings of Colas Rail’s new Class 70s ... and a look at GBRf’s Class 73/9 project at Brush Traction.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: West Coast Railway’s 57313 and Network Rail’s 57305 working FGW’s Penzance-Paddington sleepers; 90034 re-painted in DRS livery and hired to Virgin; 57602 on FGW’s Saturday loco-hauled Exeter-Penzance service; 33012 and 40145 return to main line charter work; 55002 climbing Shap with the stock of the Royal Scotsman - and then working its first railtour in more than 30 years; 33207 working a charter along the Seaford branch in East Sussex; the first passenger train to traverse the new North Doncaster Chord; 20303 & 20304 departing from Blackfriars ... and a South West Trains branded HST reaches Swanage!

THERE’S ALSO: West Coast West Coast Railways’ 37685 working a test train out of Mallaig; 33029 hauling two 4-CEP coaches to Eastleigh Works; Network Rail’s New Measurement Train becomes the first HST on the Oban line; 56311 towing a Grand Central HST?power car to Crewe; Southern-liveried 73202 on a rare main line outing; 47580 County of Essex on a FGW HST stock move to Kilmarnock; 33207 hauling the Swanage Railway’s Class 108 DMU to Eastleigh Works; two maroon-liveried ‘Westerns’ passing through Birmingham Moor Street; Colas Rail’s 37219 working at the North Norfolk Railway...and 50026 Indomitable shows off its new NSE livery at the Swanage.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2015

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: D1015 Western Champion on hire to GB?Railfreight working welded rail and ballast trains; Freightliner’s 86605 & 86632 hauling GBRf’s Carlisle-Mossend infrastructure trip; Northern Belle liveried 47832 delivering a rake of new intermodal wagons to Daventry; 57306 rescuing two failed Colas 66s on a ballast train; 55022 Royal Scots Grey hauling a rake of Network Rail wagons from Carlisle to Kilmarnock; heritage-liveried 73205 & 73208 working the Northfleet-Willesden Crossrail spoil; 92041 on Royal Mail duties; 37261 single-handedly rescuing 66302 on the Coatbridge-Daventry intermodal; 20312 hauling a welded rail train from Doncaster to Hexham; the rare sight of a pair of Class 70s working in multiple; former Dutch and German Class 66s enter traffic for GBRf; overhauled and unbranded 60066 hauling a rake of Seacow wagons for scrapping; 60001 returns to traffic after more than six years; red stripe Railfreight duo 20118 & 20132 join the GBRf fleet...and the end of fuel traffic to the FGW depots at Bristol, Plymouth and Penzance.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 37405 & 37425 working East Midlands Trains services between Derby and Crewe; FGW’s 57605 en-route to Kilmarnock hauling HST stock for refurbishment; DRS’ 57302 hauling Virgin’s Mark 3 ‘Pretendolino’ set over the Chilterns; 20142 departing from London Underground’s Uxbridge station; 47580 becomes the first of its Class to work over the Bluebell Railway; 67024 dragging the Sky One HD set over the Tyne Valley route; former Wrexham & Shropshire liveried 67015 on the Orient Express; D1015 on charters to Weymouth and Carlisle...and the first HSTs to visit the Swanage and East Lancashire Railways.

THERE’S ALSO: 20142 towing ‘Meridian’ DMU 222101 from Wakefield to Derby; West Coast ‘Crompton’ 33029 moving a breakdown crane from Eastleigh to Farnham; 47727 delivering a converted Class 458 EMU to Wimbledon; 67016 & 67026 on a ‘Southern’ Class 377 delivery move from Derby; 66749 on biomass wagon testing at the Great Central Railway; Heavy Haul Class 66s on RHTT duties; 56311 towing Mallard and ‘Deltic’ 55019 to Grantham; pioneer HST power car 41001 en-route to Ruddington; ‘Peak’ 45149 back in action after 26 years; the first time fire-up of 56006 in preservation...and the return to traffic of 47401 Mary Queen of Scots in large logo livery at Bo’ness.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2014

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: Colas duo 47727 & 47749 hauling a 2,200 tonne ballast train to Eastleigh; WCRC’s newly-acquired 57316 on a Frodingham-Bescot departmental; Royal 67s on the Morris Cowley-Southampton Docks cars; DRS’s 47818 on hire to Colas for the Boston steel; 37688 & 37419 hauling a long welded rail train from Mossend to Ardlui; Colas Rail’s 66848 hauling the Thamesport-Lawley Street Freightliner; 37602 & 37607 on a waste trial to Winfrith in Dorset; 47739 working the Sinfin tanks; WCRC duo 57006 & 57316 rescue the Chirk timber; Chiltern’s 67015 on the Toton-Beeston departmental; pairs of DRS 37s and 57s on Anglo-Scottish intermodal services; the end of coal and oil trains to Didcot power station; DCR Class 56s on new traffic flows to Calvert, Butterwell and Thoresby; Class 37/4s return to traffic with DRS; 66750 arrives from Holland for GBRf...and 20189 and 20227 receive London Underground liveries.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 47828 & 47802 ‘top & tailing’ a Norwich to Peterborough ‘Foot-Ex’; 20312 bonnet-first on the Chingford branch; LUL’s Sarah Siddons on London Underground 150 specials; 37218 & 37609 on the Exmouth branch; DRS 47s deputising for a DMU on Norwich-Lowestoft services; 66739 working the first through-train from London to Sheffield Park for 55 years; D9009 Alycidon on both the East Coast and West Coast; 66075 hauling the failed Glasgow to Euston Scotrail sleepers; Arriva’s 67001 & 67002 working over the Chiltern Line with a Wrexham-Wembley ‘Foot-Ex’...and four former Arriva Class 57/3s transfer to WCR.

THERE’S ALSO: 20142 & 20227 on London Underground’s District Line; 33207 hauling four Orient Express coaches to Selhurst; various Snow & Ice Treatment Trains with haulage by 37516, 47802, 66846 & 73109; Deltic 55022 on hire to GB Railfreight for Scottish EMU moves; 37425 hauling three overhauled Network Rail DVTs to Derby; 31190 on the ECML towing Union of South Africa; 37685 working a GB Railfreight EMU move to Kilmarnock; 66705 hauling the last two VOP units from Ashford to Barrow Hill; 47727 hauling two ‘Juniper’ EMUs; 33103 working on the Bluebell Railway...and the probable ‘clag shot of the year’ featuring 56103 at the Nene Valley Railway!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2013

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: Former Virgin ‘Thunderbird’ 57302 working for DRS, former DRS locos 20311 and 20314 re-enter traffic for HNRC, Heavy Haul’s 70001 undergoing testing on the Great Central Railway, 33012 being moved from Southampton Docks to Eastleigh Works for repair, 56087 and 56302 re-enter traffic with Colas, 37606 + 37611 on Beattock with DRS’ 4S44 Daventry-Coatbridge intermodal, 56303 + 56311 working DB Schenker’s 6M11 Washwood Heath-Peak Forest stone empties, Network Rail Class 57s on nocturnal engineering trains and autumn RHTT duties in East Anglia, 37518 returns to the main line to travel from Carnforth to Fort William, 73205 + 73212 on the West Coast Main Line hauling two box wagons from Wolverton Works to Tonbridge, 31601 and 56312 on FGW stock moves from Kilmarnock.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 67006 piloting 6201 Princess Elizabeth on the Royal Train, 56311 + 56312 on the Peak Forest-Attercliffe stone, 50044 returns to south Devon working a GB Railfreight special from Cardiff, 57310 + a Class 377 EMU undergoing a coupling test run from Selhurst to Hove, the return to the main line of Deltic’s 55002 Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and 55009 Alycidon, Class 73s towing a withdrawn Class 508 unit from Eastleigh Works to Southampton Docks, GBRf’s 92032 hauling a new rake of foreign-built tanks from Dollands Moor to London, 31601 + 31602 venture to South Wales with scrap wagons, 87017 + 87023 and 86217 being towed from Long Marston to Willesden prior to being sent abroad, 20304 + 20312 hauling a CWR set from Scunthorpe to York, Turkish-built 70099 arriving at Loughborough Works, 20189 emerges from Hastings in London Underground red, pairs of DRS Class 66s take over the Daventry-Mossend ‘Tesco Express’ from DB Schenker, GBRf’s 66737 on an inspection saloon, 56087 hauling five scrap classmates from Crewe to Kingsbury for breaking, 31128 returns to the main line re-painted in BR blue, and 73205 + 73206 towing London Underground’s Sarah Siddons from West Ruislip to Eastleigh Works.

THERE’S ALSO: 37259 + 37607 working DRS’ 4V38 Daventry-Wentloog intermodal, the Mid-Norfolk Class 47 gala celebrating 50 years of the Brush Type 4, the first Class 70 on the West Thurrock cement, 20901 +20905 receive GB Railfreight livery for the London Underground S stock moves, former Spanish exiles 37800 + 37884 being towed from Dollands Moor to Wembley, DCR’s 56312 and the Class 56 Group’s 56301 working the Didcot-Calvert flyash, Colas-liveried 86701 arriving at Euston on a freight trial from Daventry, 47580 hauling a rake of box wagons from Chaddesden to Shipley, West Coast’s 37676 working an engineers train from Hinksey Yard to Doncaster….and the only main line run in 2012 of D1015 Western Champion.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2013

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: Three DRS Class 37s rescue a DB Schenker coal train; 56094 returns to traffic for Colas; 66701 hauling LUL battery locos and wagons from West Ruislip to Stonebridge Park; 37688 on hire to GBRf to work a ballast train to Arisaig; Royal 67s on the Toton-Whitemoor departmental; BARS Class 56s working the Shipley-Cardiff Tidal scrap; 97302 working a Bescot to Eastleigh rail train; DRS’ 66434 emerges in a new Malcolm livery; 67011 on the Jaguar ‘car carriers’ to Washwood Heath; Colas take on the aviation fuel to Prestwick, Linkswood & Sinfin; 73119 returns to traffic for GBRf in BR blue; DRS acquire former Virgin Class 57s; the first Colas timber train out of Baglan Bay... and a ten loco convoy of GBRf locos – eight of which are Class 73s!

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 67014 working the empty stock of the Caledonian sleepers over the Chiltern Line; two HST power cars rescuing a FGW Penzance-Paddington HST service; 57315 & 57308 and the Virgin Mark 3 set working West Coast Virgin diversions over the Chiltern Line; the end of Class 57s on Arriva’s ‘WAG Express’; a silver repaint for 67026 for Royal Train duties; 37409 & 37601 rescue failed Class 47s on DRS’ Edinburgh to Southampton Docks boat train; 57308 towing two ‘Voyager’ coaches to York; DRS Class 37s and 47s working the Carlisle-Sellafield’ commuter train; 66213 crossing Bletchley flyover with the ‘Concrete Cow’ charter, the spectacular unveiling at York of 91110 as ‘Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’ and Anglia’s 90009 is decorated and named ‘Diamond Jubilee’.

THERE’S ALSO: Two Eurotunnel KRUPP diesel locos dragging a French TGV over the HS1 route; Network Rail Class 57s on ‘snow train’ tests; 60015 towing a ‘Javelin’ unit from Dollands Moor to York; 47798 ‘Prince William’ with ‘Green Arrow’ and ‘Mallard’ in tow; 73205 ventures along the Folkestone Harbour branch; 50049 hauling 37308 & 50044 & 50135 from Cardiff to Kidderminster; 47245 towing Hungary-bound 86215 from Long Marston to Wembley; 50027 ‘Lion’ moves to the Mid-Hants Railway; 56312 hauling a re-painted Mark 3 coach from Bristol to Wembley; 47739 moving Class 507 EMU’s between Kilmarnock and Birkenhead; 47812 on hire to BARS hauling Mark 3 coaches from Bletchley to Doncaster; Class 56s arriving at EMR Kingsbury for breaking…and after 22 years, 50026 ‘Indomitable’ returns to traffic in spectacular style at the Swanage diesel gala!

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2012

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 56311 working a Grimsby Docks to Cardiff Tidal scrap train; Royal loco 67006 on the Edinburgh bins; 47500 moving track machinery from Nottingham to Hitchin; DB Schenker’s 66221 working Freightliner’s Trafford Park to Southampton service; ‘Super Tug’ 60007 fails on the Ketton cement and is rescued by 67030; Colas 47s taking two convoys of stored Class 92s from Crewe to Dollands Moor; 66847 working the first timber train out of Teigngrace on the re-opened Heathfield branch; 20096 & 20227 on a Doncaster-Toton engineer’s train; Arriva-liveried 67003 on the Sinfin tanks; 37601 & 37611 on hire to DB Schenker for the Didcot-Bicester MoD trip; 47375 & 56302 hauling a rake of china clay wagons from Burngullow to Burton...and Network Rail’s 57306 rescuing GBRf’s Daventry to Dollands Moor intermodal.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 47841 & 47810 on the Norwich-Lowestoft/Great Yarmouth DMU replacement services; the last Virgin working of 57312 before its transfer to Network Rail; 92042 with the stock of Scotrail’s ‘Caledonian’ sleepers; a First Great Western HST set on hire to East Coast; 47832 goes into Northern Belle livery; 50044 & the Virgin Mark 3 ‘Pretendolino’ on a Euston-Holyhead charter; 55022 on railtours to Weymouth and Oban; 67002 piloting Tornado on a Victoria to Weymouth steam charter; 37706 rescuing the Scarborough Spa Express; 37607 & 37608 working DRS’s Glasgow to Southampton Docks boat train...and 'Crompton' D6515 working NYMR Grosmont-Whitby shuttles with 73136.

THERE’S ALSO: Extensive coverage of Network Rail’s autumn RHTTs with loco classes 20, 37, 57, 66, 67 & 97; a five-loco Deltic convoy running from Shildon to Bury; 57310 on two MPV rescues in two days; GBRf Class 66s at the Nene Valley Railway on a snowplough test; 92041 delivering the last Class 380 EMU from Germany; 47739 & 47749 hauling a rake of 12 FGW HST buffet cars from Eastleigh Works to Kilmarnock; 57009 & 57011 on a Scottish snowplough test; 66723 Chinook moving by road from Alresford to RAF Odiham; 37409 on a GBRf Class 422 move; triple-headed Class 50s at the East Lancs Railway, 59001 & 59101 on the Mid-Norfolk Railway; newly-repainted 40106 at the Severn Valley Railway...and six Virgin Class 57s transferring to Network Rail.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2012

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 55022 on hire to GB Railfreight working the Alcan alumina tanks between North Blyth and Lynemouth plus its extraordinary appearance on the Fort William-North Blyth tanks; DBS-liveried 59206 working the Theale-Robeston tanks; GBRf-liveried 92032 hauling the Daventry-Dollands Moor intermodal; 20304 & 20305 hauling a rake of container flats from Harwich to Peterborough; DRS’ 66433 working the Northolt-Calvert ‘Binliner’; 92026 hauling a rake of 41 Seacow ballast wagons; 47739 hauling stored KSA wagons to Hamilton; 73206 shunting in Peterborough Yard; 66842 works the first Colas coal train over the Weardale Railway; 92009 emerges in DB Schenker livery; damaged 70012 leaving Newport Docks by road on its way back to the USA….and an amazing 10 loco convoy of Class 66s.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: The Wrexham & Shropshire farewell at London Marylebone; DRS start hauling Boat Trains to Southampton Docks and then take over the Northern Belle; a FGW HST ventures along the Exmouth branch in Devon; FGW’s 57603 arriving at Brush for a re-paint; Class 67 haulage for Chiltern Trains; 91101 arriving at Kings Cross on its maiden run in ‘Flying Scotsman’ livery; 31190 & 31601 traversing the Hope Valley; ‘Bubble Car’ W55034 re-enters traffic for Chiltern Railways in two-tone green; 20303 & 20309 deputising for steam on the Northern Belle to Holyhead…and 47790 emerges in Northern Belle livery.

THERE’S ALSO: ‘Crompton’ D6515’s main line test run following its Eastleigh Works overhaul; 56312 on hire to Colas towing a ballast cleaner; the bizarre combination of 86101 towing 73109; FOUR Class 59s on a freight train on the West Somerset Railway; Network Rail Class 97s at work on the Cambrian route; DRS Class 37s on the Bourne End and Henley-on-Thames branches; 57601 towing 2 Grand Central HST power cars to Loughborough; Freightliner-liveried 57001 ventures to Barry; 57314 towing 2 ‘Voyager’ coaches; 50044 returns to the main line re-painted in BR blue; 20308 on inspection saloon duties at York; 31190 towing 40106 from the Nene Valley to Washwood Heath; 37254 ventures to Eridge on the Spa Valley Railway …and the ‘Clag shot of the Year’ as former Fastline 56301 returns to traffic at the Swanage diesel gala in spectacular style.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2011

Running time: 100-mins

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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 59 206 hauling the Robeston-Westerleigh tanks, 67 006 in the Peak District with the Warrington-Dowlow trip, 37603 + 37 604 hauling a rake of former Fastline coal hoppers, 57 001 leaving Brush Traction at Loughborough under its own power, Euro Cargo Rail Class 66s return to the UK for autumn RHTT duties, 47 739 hauling the first Colas timber train out of Ribblehead, 73 109 & 73 201 on GBRf Thameslink engineering trains, the first Class 57s to work the Hitchin-Sheerness scrap, DB Schenker hire in DRS Class 37s for Scottish ballast and charter trains, Mendip Rail 59s on DB Schenker infrastructure work, 60 099 receives Tata Steel livery, Class 58s en route from Toton to Kingsbury for breaking…and a 9-loco Peterborough to Doncaster GBRf light engine convoy.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: Freightliner’s 90 045 on hire to Virgin West Coast, 08 483 arriving at Paddington with the stock of the ‘Night Riviera’ sleepers while 60 059 works into Glasgow Central with Scotrail’s Euston beds, DRS’ 47 790 working East Anglian drags between Norwich and Great Yarmouth, 57 604 ventures to Weymouth with FGW’s final Bristol-Weymouth loco-hauled service, 67 025 rescuing an East Coast HST at Grantham, FGW HST diversions into London Waterloo and over the Chiltern line, 40 145 on its ill-fated ‘East Lancs Explorer’ charter, 33 207 ventures to Whitby, 47 500 returns to traffic, Grand Central’s Paxman Valenta HST farewell, 55 022 on a GB Railfreight staff special…..and D1015 conquering Ais Gill summit on the S&C.

THERE’S ALSO: DRS Class 37s testing the new Airdrie to Bathgate line, 86 101 & 87 002 and 86 701& 86 702 working Network Rail’s radio survey train, 47 739 towing former Fastline ‘Grids’ 56 301 & 56 302 from Doncaster to Hitchin, a bizarre combination of the Scotrail sleepers and slurry tanks, 66 845 hauling a new 11-car Pendolino set from Dollands Moor to Edge Hill, 47 580 hauling a staggering 8-loco convoy of heritage locos, two GBRf Class 73s venture to Devon as barrier vehicles for a FGW stock move, D444 Exeter hauling preserved locos from the East Lancs Railway to Barrow Hill, D9009 high-speed wagon-testing on the GCR, 31 128 works North York Moors Grosmont-Whitby shuttles….and 25 059 on the newly re-opened Caldon Low branch in Staffordshire.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2011

Running time: 100-mins

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Number of discs: 1 DVD-R


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FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 37 601, 86 101 & 87 002 working Royal Mail trains, 20 901 & 20 905 with a rake of GBRf coal hoppers, Riviera duo 47 805 & 47 839 on hire to Colas for the Boston steel, 67 026 ventures onto the Swanage Railway to work a ballast train, 60 096 makes a rare foray to Onllwyn colliery, 20 142 & 20 189 with deliveries of new London Underground S stock, 56 311 & 56 312 hauling a rake of 100-tonne tankers up the Lickey, 57 301 working the Fort William-Lynemouth alumina tanks, 37 425 on ballasting duties on the Oban Line, Fastline Freight’s 66 305 ventures to Thorney Mill, the first Class 70 to venture to Scotland and Immingham, FIVE Class 92s on one train….and after a 10 year absence 37 409 returns to traffic with DRS.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 20 304 working East Anglian passenger trains between Norwich, 37 667’s Inverness-Perth East Coast HST drag, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 57 602 & 57 605 and the Night Riviera sleepers on a Oxford-Paddington service, 91 121 on a rare ECML HST drag, 66 402 & 66 721 deputising for failed Class 57s on FGW’s Cardiff-Taunton service, 37 425 working the empty stock of the Euston sleepers into Glasgow Central, 70 003 becomes the first of its class to work a passenger train, D1015 pairs up with 40145 for a trip to Cornwall, the welcome return of 55 022 to railtour action….and the unveiling of re-painted 57 604 Pendennis Castle in GWR green at Didcot.

THERE’S ALSO: 57 603 hauling a Hull Trains Class 180 DMU, 47 739 hauling 4-CIG unit 1881 from Eastleigh Works to Barrow Hill, the extraordinary visit of 73 107 to London Paddington, 66 728 hauling two Class 325 Royal Mail units to Fort William, 47 739 hauling Grand Central HST stock from Stoke Marcroft to Heaton, Floyd-liveried 86 232 moving from Crewe to Long Marston, 86 701 & 86 702 on a DVT test run for Chiltern Trains, 57 306 works over the Chilterns with WSMR stock from Crewe, Class 50 D444 returns to the main line to haul 50 026 from Kidderminster to Eastleigh Works, former EPS loco 73 118 shunting at Barry…and 46 010 returns to action at the Great Central Railway.

Narrated by: David Maxey

First published: 2010

Running time: 100-mins

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


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