Wrapping-up a series that has run for 26 years is the tenth and final ‘POWER HOUR’ programme. Continuing the theme of main line diesel locos hard at work on the national rail network, each scene has one or more of the following entertaining ingredients - full-on power, stiff gradients or standing starts. With some added clag (and a lively commentary from David Maxey), the result is a series of spectacular shots filmed between 2012 and 2025. This DVD (which actually runs for 90 minutes) features no fewer than 70 different main line locos - old and new - on a diverse range of workings from around the country. They include…
FREIGHT WORKINGS: 56303 & 56103 at full tilt hauling 1,800 tonnes of scrap metal, 60091 re-starting the 2,800-tonne Robeston to Westerleigh tanks away from Gloucester, 68004 & 68009 performing a standing start with the Daventry to Grangemouth intermodal, 31601 powering out of Heeley Loop on a Railvac move, a seriously-loud 37901 hauling redundant Mendip Rail wagons for scrap, 20007 & 20205 staggering through Stowmarket with 1,038 tonnes of departmental kit in tow, 37425 and a failed 37401 struggling on the climb of Langho bank, 56090 pounding over Copy Pit with the Haverton Hill to Preston Docks bitumen, the night air at Church Fenton reverberating to the sound of DRS’s 57002, a frozen 60065 performing a cold-start at Peak Forest...and 56091 attempting to get the Ravenhead sand on the move after it slipped to a stand at Bryn.
PASSENGER WORKINGS & RAILTOURS: 50007 & 50049 climbing Shap with the Taunton to Aberdeen ‘Grampian Highlander’, double EE decibels from 40013 & 40145 on the ‘Double Scotch’ excursion to Edinburgh, Napier nostalgia from 55009 at Hadley Wood in the North London suburbs, 20118 & 20132 powering the 'Cooling Tower Choppers', 45118 doing battle with the Lickey incline, D1015 blasting through Brill Tunnel, Deltic power on the WCML at Cheddington from D9000, 50008 thundering to Paignton, 47614 & 47805 clagging away from Accrington, 33029 & 33207 thrashing through Clapham High Street en route to Faversham ...and 40013 tackling the 1 in 59 climb to Miles Platting from a standing start at Manchester Victoria.
Whatever your taste in motive power, this DVD has something for everyone as it features no fewer than 16 different loco classes - 20, 31, 33, 37, 40, 45, 47, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 66, 68 and 70. Please note that none of the footage in this programme appears in any other Locomaster DVD.
Produced by - Locomaster Profiles
Duration - 90 Minutes
DVD only
Released - December 2025
