Description
Video Track Issue 205
NEWS & EVENTS Extended News from around the Network
Easter Sleeper diversions – Class 56s on freight, engineering traffic – stock moves to Eastleigh and engineering duties on the Midland and North Humberside and a Class 313 move – Locomotive Services private charter to Norfolk and Kent with 37s – Railtours including ‘Link & Chord’, 37s on ‘Easter Highlander’ – Great Britain Railtour with Class 4 – ‘Tyne Tees Tractors’ with Class 37s – ‘Pennine Wayfarer Railtour’ plus private charters – Class 69s including frieght to Mountfield – 86 259 ‘Les Ross’ and 87002 on specials including ‘The East Anglian’ – Class 91 on ECML including celebrity 91110 and 91119 – Stock moves including Class 720s to East Anglia – Barriers to Eastleigh and 196s to Long Marston – Loco convoys including Class 70s, 50s and 37s – test trains – 31128 on hire to North York Moors – Class 67s on railtours plus the Royal Train – Midland engineering – Freight news including cement to Drax and 37s & 47s – Movements of 60s from Toton – SRPS special in Highlands plus the ‘Royal Scotsman’ – Cross Country HSTs – the ‘Blue Pullman’- Class 67s to Holyhead – ‘Hastings Unit on tour -’Footex’ charters to Wembley – PLUS MUCH MORE.
Class 50s on Tour 50 008 ‘Thunderer’ on main line including stock moves and specials, the ‘Springtime Hoovering’ in Devon & to Okehampton – the ‘Honeybourne Hoover – the ‘Ore no More’ on Southern metals and the ecs move back to Burton.
LSWR Variety with specials and freight moves on the main line through Basingstoke with Class 47s, 57s and 73s.
Class 59 Interlude Class 59s on freight to Hitchin and Harlow.
Galas and the Heritage Network Stock moves to Swanage and the Gala of May. Chinnor & Princes Risborough Gala, The Great Central Railway. The Dean Forest Railways DMU Gala. The Lavender line DEMU. The Torbay Railway and the Strathspey Railway.
Cross Country to East Anglia with Special trains and freight including D213 ‘Andania’, Class 60s Locomotive Services 37s and 47593.
Werrington Junction traffic around the remodelled junction to the North of Peterborough.
Veteran Units in Decline. Stock movements to Newport, Class 317s on West Anglia services, the last 455s in Southern service and the final train of the 14th May, Class 313s on Seaford trains, Branch Line Society special Merseyrail train
Class 47s on Specials with the veterans on railtours and stock moves around the network during the Spring.
Running Time Approx 1 Hour 50 mins
