Description

A specially extended edition of Video Track marking 150 issues

NEWS & EVENTS 
Extended News from around the Network
86 101 & 87 002 on GBRF Special on East Coast Main Line inc stock moves – Last LT stock moves with 20 haulage – Class 20 special to Canterbury – 20 096, 20 314 on stock move with 55 019 from Dereham – DRS Class 37s and 47s on Air Show Extras to Lowestoft – 47 826 & 57 601 failed at Kirkby Stephen – 37 612 to the rescue of 56 312 on stock move – 20 905 & 20 901 on railtour – VSOE with 47 805 & 47 790 – 57 002 on Stratford to Crewe stock move – 47 812 & 47 832 on Crewe to Long Marston stock move  – 55 016 on stock move to Burton – Hastings Unit to Weston  – 33 207 on stock move to Carnforth – DRS 37s on move to Crewe – Last run of DRS 37 510 and 37 087 – 67 010 moving ‘Bittern’ to Southall – Class 60 News with class on tanks from Rectory Junction, on steel and engineering duties – Deltic 55 022 on move to WSR and on special to Whitby – Midland Railway Centre’s 60s Gala – East Lancs Gala with 55 002, 50 015, 37 907, 37 908, 5081    –  Network Rail 97s on ‘The Prisoner’ Railtour –  NENTA tour to Kent – DCR Class 31s on stock moves  – West Highland 37 with steam move  to Fort William – Sleeper stock move to Old Oak 60 094 over Beattock piloting 92 – 60 049 on Dagenham stone – D9009 ‘Alycidon’ on ‘Elizabethan’, its first main line run for 8 years  –  50 044 on GBRF charter to South Wales – The Royal Train in the Midlands and the North East.

DIESEL MULTIPLE UNITS – The Llangollen’s DMU gala of June with wide range of units including the Class 141 plus archive from the 1960s.  

LINESIDE OBSERVATIONS – An evening on the West Coast Main Line with a variety of freight including DRS 20s on freight.

SCOTTISH SPECIALS  –  Class 47 power on the Kyle and Highland Main Line including the ‘Northern Belle’ and ‘The Royal Scotsman’.

SOUTH WALES BANKER – 60 063 & 66 banker on the Robeston to Westerleigh tanks on Cockett Bank.

WEST SOMERSET MIXED TRACTION – The railways June Gala with Deltic 55 022, Crompton D6575, D1616, Hymek D1017, D832 ‘Onslaught’, D1010 Western Campaigner plus GBRFs 73 119 and  73 207.

MAIN LINE 56s – COLAS 56 094 on Boston Freight, 56 303 on triple headed  loaded test run – Scrap Traffic with 56 311 &  56312, 56 312 on Kilmarnock to Laira stock moves.

LINE PROFILE – The Norwich to Ely line through Thetford with a look at traffic in the late 1980s and 1990 featuring Class 31s, 47s and 37s on loco hauled trains, freight and Metro Cammell DMUs. Also featuring the line just before the closure of some of the signal boxes, including a Class 31 move from the Mid Norfolk and freight.  A final record of a fascinating line.

STEAM AGE RAILWAY – Class 47 haulage at Sleaford, Class 47s at Hellifield & Class 37s at Arnside.

LICKEY TRACTION  – A DCR Class 31 and Class 37 stock moves on the famous Lickey.

1 hr 58 min approx