Believe it or not, this is programme number 27 in the Traction series and, believe it or not, there were enough unusual workings and fleet developments to make the second half of 2008 as interesting as ever.

Today's rail network may be awash with General Motors power, but there's plenty of traction variety to be enjoyed if you're in the right place at the right time... as this programme proves.

So, whatever your taste in diesel and electric power, this DVD has something for just about everyone.

Freight Traffic and Traction:

• BR blue 86101 and 87002 working Royal Mail trains
• 56311 and 56312 on hire to Colas Rail for Immingham - Washwood Heath steel trains
• 37417 making a rare appearance on the Southampton Docks - Bescot cartics
• 66303 deputising for the booked Fastline 56 on the Doncaster - Grain containers
• Large Logo 47580 on a Tyseley - West Ealing departmental working
• 37608 and 37609 working the Daventry - Grangemouth intermodal
• 56303 at Ratcliffe power station having rescued a Fastline Freight coal train
• Newly re-liveried 59001 working an Eastleigh - Westbury EWS departmental service
• Rare class 67 double-header 67011 and 67028 hauling a Scunthorpe - Crewe CWR train
• 57303 passing through Banbury with the diverted PRDC - Shieldmuir mail
• 57008 and 57011 hauling a rake of new Fastline coal hoppers
• 59202 is off the beaten track with the Walsall - Tunstead cement
• Plus the best-ever selection of 'Dead Shed' spots!

Passenger Traction, Railtours and Specials:

• Cotswold Rail 47s and Colas Rail's 47739 working FGW's 'Night Riviera' sleepers
• 86259 making a debut for its class at Hadfield on a BBC charity train
• 90003 passing through Nottingham in the consist of a Freightliner service
• Former Virgin Class 57s commence new duties on Arriva's Holyhead - Cardiff service
• Virgin Class 57s on diverted West Coast services over the Chiltern Line
• 20189 working London Underground Metropolitan Line specials
• 55022 making a Deltic debut over the Cambrian route to Pwllheli
• SWT's 73109 working Brockenhurst - Lymington Pier services
• 47375 working Norwich - Lowestoft services
• D1015 travels to Liverpool and Great Yarmouth
• 33025 and 33207 visit Weymouth
• 57302 and 57312 taking the vintage Queen of Scots coaches on a trip to Carlisle
• The end of the Stobart Pullman

There's Also:

• 20905 hauling a Grand Central HST power car from Craigentinny to Heaton
• 31454 and 31459 visiting St Albans Abbey Wood with a test train
• Class 87s moving by road from Crewe to Hull docks en-route to Bulgaria
• 87019 working a railtour in Bulgaria
• Re-liveried Class 58s en route to Spain
• 20901 and 20905 hauling the Blue Pullman charter set from Barrow Hill to East Ham
• Repainted 73210 being towed from Stewarts Lane to Dereham by 73136
• Grand Central HST power car 43067 working Network Rail's NMT HST
• 20307 and 20315 on a stoneblower move from Trent Junction to Ashford
• Class 20 D8142 working its last trains at Llangollen
• EWS scrappers 37403 and 37413 arriving at their new home at Bo'ness
• 57311 visits Bo'ness
• 57307 visits the East Lancs Railway
• Plus extensive coverage of the autumn RHTTs

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 DVD record of the second six months of 2008.

Produced by - Locomaster Profiles
Running time - 100 Minutes
Colour with Stereo Sound and Narration
DVD only