FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: the start of DB Cargo’s Toton-Dollands Moor Toyota cars; DCR’s new aggregate services to Chessington South and Newton Abbot; DRS begins running trains to Winfrith in Dorset; 56302 works the first imported aggregates train out of Lowestoft; the first Colas timber train from Aberystwyth; Freightliner’s 66620 assisting a failed 60007 on the Robeston-Theale tanks; 37218 rescuing DRS’s Tilbury-Daventry Tesco boxes; 73109 & 73136 working the Mountfield gypsum; DB Cargo’s 60019 on hire to DCR, long-stored 90021 returns to traffic in a revised WH Malcolm livery; ex-DRS locos are snapped up by HNRC & LSL; 37901 Mirrlees Pioneer returns to the main line; GBRf’s replacement for 66734 becomes its 100th Class 66...and Class 69s take over the Southampton-Mountfield gypsum.
PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: WCRC’s 47270 retains its BR blue livery following a repaint at Carnforth; Bo’ness-based 37403 working the NYMR’s Whitby services; 87002 visits Norwich with ‘The East Anglian’ excursion from Crewe; 50007 has a solo outing to Exeter on the Belmond British Pullman; 50008 leaving Canon Street with the ‘Ore No More’ railtour; 37422 & 37425 working the four-day ‘Easter Highlander’; 60040 on the ‘Cwmbargoed Collier’ tour; DB Cargo’s 67007 in new Platinum Jubilee livery hauling the Royal Train; 37601 dragging a failed Greater Anglia ‘Flirt’; LSL’s 90002 working a Liverpool-Wembley ‘Foot-ex’; 37403 leaving the Hitachi factory at Newton Aycliffe with the ‘The Merchant of Teeside’ railtour...and Class 40 D213 Andania reaches Great Yarmouth.
THERE'S ALSO: 20007 & 20142 dragging a TfW Mark 4 set from Eastleigh to Crewe; 50008 hauling a new Class 196 unit to Long Marston; Colas Rail’s 56096 on a SWR Class 701 delivery to Eastleigh; GBRf hire DCR’s 56091 for a Greater Anglia Class 720 delivery; 92042 hauling two new Swiss-built TfW Class 231 units from Dollands Moor to Ripple Lane; 47727 on the first move of Southern Class 455 units to Newport Docks for disposal; ROG 37s hauling SWR Class 455, 456 and 458 units to Long Marston; GBRf’s 56081 dragging three ex-GWR HST power cars from Laira to Newport Docks for breaking; 70020 & 68004 in action at the KWVR diesel gala; the NRM’s D6700 moves to the Great Central Railway...and Deltic 55019 on a demonstration freight on the GCR.
Produced by - Locomaster Profiles
Duration - 100 Minutes
Narration - David Maxey
DVD only
Released - September 2022