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NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network 

57 302 to the rescue of Freightliner from Cardiff – Class 37 piloting steam specials – 56 312 in new livery – Last Teigngrace logs – COLAS 56 on Grangemouth tanks – COLAS 47 on stock moves- 47 832 on freight – 31 190 on freight – DRS 37s on Intermodal – GBRF 73s on freight to Willesden – GBRF 66s in LT Liveries – ‘Movember’ trains – 86 259 on ECML – COLAS working on Chiltern line engineering duties – 60 044 new to traffic – Class 60 workings- West Coast 33s on stock moves – Riviera Trains 47s move to Crewe – Freightliner 70 – 92s on ‘Tesco Express’ – Test Trains inc to Long Marston – 20 142 on Uxbridge shuttles – DRS 47 on stock move to Kingmoor – ‘Autumn Highlander’ railtour – Chinnor & Princes Risborough Anniversary events inc 20 227 – Signal Box Closure – Branch Line Society trips to Manchester and Humberside – ‘Short Set’ on Wherry lines  –  PLUS MUCH MORE

The RHTT Season  Leaf clearing trains with Network Rail 57s from Broxbourne, DRS 57s in East Anglia – Multi Purpose Vehicles in North West and on Southern – Chiltern Line 117 DMU – Class 66 and 67 haulage from Toton – DRS Class 37s and 66s from Carlisle Kingmoor.

D1015 ‘Western Champion’ on Freight & Specials  Comprehensive coverage of D1015 exploits in November/December including Scunthorpe to Wellingborough Freight, 6D02 Wellingborough to Mountsorrel Freight, light engine moves to Etches Park PLUS ‘The Maybach Meanderer’ to Quainton Road.

Relics by the Lineside   Freight and Passenger workings against a backdrop of the ‘Steam Age’ Railway.

The Joint Line   Concentrating on the line from Sleaford to Spalding and Peterborough featuring passenger and freight diverted trains plus signalboxes and semaphores. Includes Class 66s on a variety of workings and Class 67 ‘Drags’.

Freight By-Ways   The Tyne Valley Route from Haltwhistle to the West with Class 37s on flask & RHTT duties, Class 31 on a test train and Class 66s on coal and stone traffic.

Traffic Observed   Traffic at two contrasting locations – the Midland Main Line over Sharnbrook Summit, and the ‘North & West’ through Abergavenny. Includes a look back to the 1990s on the Welsh Marches.

Class 20s in Yorkshire   on the RHTT circuits to Grimsby and Hull at various locations.

Tail Lamp   D1015 ‘Western Champion’ on Freight.

INCLUDES RARE WORKINGS, MOTIVE POWER NEWS, TRAFFIC PROFILES, SIGNALLING NEWS PLUS COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF ‘WESTERN CHAMPION’ ON FREIGHT

2 hrs Approx