Description
NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network
Hastings Unit on tour to Kings Lynn – HSTs on move to Loughborough and on Scotrail – Caledonian Sleeper stock – Class 56s to Barrington Tip – Network Rail 37s – Stock Moves with 37 612 – Class 319 moves to Long Marston and Wolverton – DVTs on move to Crewe and Cardiff – 47 815 on move following collision damage – Last S Stock moves – ROG Class 47s – Europhoenix Class 37s – Convoys to Severn Valley and Swanage Railways – COLAS 37s & Europhoenix 37s on test trains – Coal Traffic in Decline – COLAS 60s on log and engineering duties – Javelin naming – Thameslink duty – Class 800s on test on East Coast – GC Goods Galore Gala – Felixstowe branch doubling – Wherry lines Class 37 swansong – West Somerset charter – COLAS 37s on 565 Special to Norwich – 67s on Worcester Sorcerer – Class 47s on Winchester Pullman – LSL Green 47s – 86 259 on Tour – Chester and Liverpool Explorer – Class 57s on Bath and Salisbury specials – VSOE to West Somerset Railway – Ex COLAS 47s to Inverness and Scarborough – West Coast 47s on Lakeside Express – Foxfield Diesel Gala – Kenilworth Station opening – Class 159 on Saturday service to Swanage – PLUS MORE.
Main Line Class 50s D407 Hercules on test runs through Toton – Class 50s on stock moves and engineering duties – 50 049 Defiance and 50 007 Hercules on Cumbrian Explorer on the Settle and Carlisle
Veterans at March A Class 08 shunter and West Coast 47s on a railtour.
Westbury Past & Present Freight and passenger action in and around this traffic hotspot including Class 50s, 59s and Class 37s.
Lineside Interlude The VSOE on the Cotswold Line
North Humberside Re-signalling A final look at freight and passenger action under the semaphores at Gilberdyke and Broomfleet including archive film
60 Years of the Class 40s Class 40 archive from the 1970s plus the last runs of D200 to Norwich and Holyhead in 1987 plus the East Lancashire’s Class 40 Anniversary Gala with many surviving locos in action.
West Coast Traffic Centres The favourite traffic hotpots of Tamworth and Nuneaton and the West Coast Main line with a range of traffic, plus workings on the cross country routes through the High Level platforms.
Diesel Galas The Severn Valleys Spring Gala with 56 078, 73116, 47712, 55019, D821, D832, D1015, 33 108, Class 50s, 45 041, 66 726, 37 688, 88 010, 20 007 and 20 142. The Great Centrals Spring Gala with range of motive power at Loughborough.
Vintage Railtour Action D6515 on a test run to Yeovil plus the Purbeck Explorer from Ealing Broadway. The Diamond Twenties to Mountfield Sidings and Dungeness with GBRF Class 20s and Class 73s.
INCLUDES HERITAGE TRACTION ON THE MAIN LINE, DIESEL GALAS, ARCHIVE FILM, RARE WORKINGS AND SPECIAL TRAINS
1 hr 56mins approx.
