The 20th programme in the Traction series is remarkable for any number of reasons, not least this one - 400 Class 66s in traffic, only a handful in the programme!
Instead, veteran loco classes dominate and, like its predecessors, Traction 2005 is packed with the traditional assortment of wacky workings, preservation progress and 'Shed-free' traction developments.
FREIGHT TRAFFIC AND TRACTION:
Former Virgin 47s transfer to Freightliner Heavy Haul
Farewell to GWR green 60081
Stored EWS 37s return for weekend ballast work
The first and last Class 87-hauled DRS trains
33029 and 33027 enter service for DRS
37416 on the Bescot - Hams Hall containers
37427 rescuing a failed 66 on an Ironbridge MGR
Silver machine 67029 on steel trains
47298 and 47802 working the Hunterston nuclear flasks
33202 and 77107 hauling a Hoo - Tonbridge ballast
DRS 66404 on hire to EWS on the Hardendale limestone
87014 hauling a Class 325 mail train
Large Logo 37425 on china clay duties in Cornwall
Railtrack-liveried 73212 and 73213 on ballast duties
37422 visits Ratcliffe power station
The first GBRf Bluebird to Aberdeen
33030 ventures to Grangemouth
PASSENGER TRACTION AND WORKINGS, RAILTOURS AND SPECIALS:
37606 working a Liverpool Street - Norwich service
47810 rescuing a Virgin Pendolino
NSE livery for 87012
L&NWR black for 87019
Heritage repaints for 37411 and 37425
Class 86s reinstated for Anglia passenger duties
57304 on Dainton with a Virgin Voyager in tow
47840 on hire to First Great Western
Double-headed Gatwick EDs
SWT 73235 emerges in Desiro livery
47832 hauling the 'Queen of Scots'
Class 50s break new ground in Scotland
Wessex Class 31 haulage returns
DRS 37s on the 'Queen of Scots'
40145s three-day 'Silver Jubilee' railtour
D1015 on the VSOE and storming Luxulyan bank en route to Newquay
55019 returns to the ECML
The first Class 50 to visit Kings Cross in 17 years
THERE'S ALSO:
33103 on the East Grinstead and Lowestoft branches
Three Class 57s towing a Pendolino from Asfordby to Oxley
57601 and inspection saloon at Aberthaw
Class 31s rescue Network Rail's HST
47851 with two Rio HST power cars in tow
47145 on a Caerwent - Meldon stock move
'Royal Scotsman' Class 31s
67029 hauling three France-bound Class 56s
Class 31 Skegness passenger trial
45112 visits Humberside
Cotswold Rail Class 87 convoy
92003 delivering a new Hull Trains Pioneer unit
Serco 31s en route to Inverness
Class 47-hauled movements of slam-door stock to Caerwent
Large Logo 56057 on the Nene Valley
Coverage of the West Somerset, Mid-Hants and North York Moors diesel galas
News stories, factual information, an astonishing assortment of strange workings and locomotive classes - all mixed with plenty of thrash - make this programme the most comprehensive and authoritative video record of the first five months of 2005.
Produced by - Locomaster Profiles
Running time - 90 Minutes
DVD only