Description
VIDEO TRACK 216
NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network
The last coal duty to a power station in the UK – Class 47s on ‘Drags’ – 45 118 ‘Royal Artilleryman’ on tour – ‘Hastings’ unit on tour on Midland Main Line and to Skegness – New GBRF freight duties – – EMU drags with Class 37s, 47s and 57s -37 901 ‘Mirlees Pioneer’ in new livery – ECS movements – Weedkiller over Central Wales line – Class 60s to East Anglia – Rail Adventure HSTs on railtours duties – HST on ‘The Jolly Fisherman’ – New Class 69 duties – COLAS Grids on Baglan Bay Logs and freight to Middleton Towers – 37 901 in new livery on stock moves – East Coast 91 diagrams – test trains with Class 153 and COLAS & LORUM 37s including over Central Wales Line and Wherry lines – 37 on freight in South West Scotland – Class 20s on drain train – Class 20s on driver training over Central Wales line – Royal Scotsman – Loco convoys to West Somerset Railway – D1015 ‘Western Champion’ on specials to Paignton, the ‘Westbury Wizzo’, and the ‘Nosh and Slosh’ – 86 401 on special – 50s on ‘Mazey Day Cornishman’ and the ‘Holt Hoover’, D213 to Kingswear and Scarborough- 37s on ‘Spring Cornish Explorer’ – Northern Belle to Hull – ‘The North West Freighter’ to Merseyside – Class 50s over Shap – PLUS MUCH MORE.
Heritage Action – Summer Galas with the North York Moors Railway, the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway and the Keighley and Worth Valley Railways. Main line visiting locos including 69 009, D1015 ‘Western Champion, D182, 20 189 & 20 142, 50 021 ‘Rodney’ and 37 418.
Freight Profile featuring the lines around Westbury and the quarries at Merehead and Whatley in the summer with a range of traffic including Class 60s, Class 59s and Class 66s.
Lines that time Forgot The cross country line through Sleaford to Boston with scenes at Sleaford West, a freight at Hubberts Bridge and a Class 09 shunter at Boston Docks. We also visit the time wharp location at Holywood on the Glasgow and South Western with its signal box, crossing gates and semaphores and a test train.
West Coast Action with the last summer of Class 325s in mail service, Class 70s, 88s, 90s, 68s and 69s plus West Coast loco haulage with Class 47s and 57s on stock movements. A range of traffic is shown around Nuneaton and on the legendary climb to Shap.
A ‘Peak Returns to the Main Line with 45 118 ‘Royal Ar\tilleryman’ on a test run from Crewe to Shrewsbury and on the ‘Diamond Jubilee Express’ including the ascent of the Lickey Incline.
Parting Shot featuring D1015 ‘Western Champion’ hard at work on the Lickey Incline.
RUNNING TIME – ONE HOUR 50 MINS
