FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 56302 returns to traffic for Colas while 56103 makes its comeback with DCR; DB Cargo’s last two operational Class 60s in action shortly before withdrawal; 37508 returns to the main line with Loram; D1015 Western Champion on a test run hauling GBRf’s Avonmouth-Penyffordd cement; GBRf’s 56098 & 59003 on hire to Colas; DRS’s 37422 & 37425 on a snowplough test run from Crewe to Carlisle; WCRC’s 37685 rescuing 60026 on the Tyne Dock-Drax biomass; 56094 working a ballast off Hoo Junction; 37800 hauling a rake of redundant IXA wagons to Gascoigne Wood for storage; large logo 56098 on various DCR aggregate workings; Rail Adventure power cars 43480 & 43468 leaving Shirebrook with a rake of 24 biomass hoppers; former DRS locos 37218 & 37407 make a quick return to the main line with new owners Europhoenix; GBRf’s 73128 receives Network South East livery...and 69009 emerges from the Eastleigh Arlington paintshop as Western Consort.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: Newark ‘Thunderbird’ 57012 hauling LNER’s failed 800112 from St Neots to Bounds Green; 86101 returning from Barassie on the ‘Ayr Extension’ excursion; D1015 Western Champion makes a welcome return on railtours; 86101 and 86259 on ‘foot-ex’ specials from Liverpool to Wembley; 40013 ventures to Scarborough and Aberdeen; Rail Adventure’s 43468 & 43480 passing Hartlepool on a charter from London; new GBRf ‘Euro-Sheds’ 66306 & 66308 on the ‘Gateway Galloper’; triple-headed Class 59s on a BLS charter to Exeter; four Class 37s on passenger workings between Fort William and Mallaig on two consecutive days...and GWR’s 57603 & 57605 visit Euston with the ‘Night Riviera’ sleepers.

THERE'S ALSO: LSL’s 45118 The Royal Artilleryman returns to the main line; 57012 hauling CrossCountry ‘Voyager’ 221142 from Crofton Depot to Monk Bretton; redundant Trans Pennine stock heading to Long Marston for storage; 66192 hauling the Royal Train on a test run to Crewe; redundant Northern Class 319 and Merseyrail Class 507 units heading to Newport Docks for scrapping; WCRC duo 57009 and 47815 on an inspection saloon to Euston; 50008 Thunderer towing a Mobile Maintenance Train to York; 55013 The Black Watch (aka 55009) working a demonstration freight train on the Nene Valley Railway; 37250 debuts its EWS livery at Keighley; LSL’s cosmetically restored 60081 leaving Toton by road for Margate...and 20142 & 20189 towing Network Rail’s milling machine from Harwich to Rugby.

Produced by - Locomaster Profiles
Duration - 100 Minutes
Narration - David Maxey
DVD only
Released - September 2024