Video Track 140 Feb/Mar 2010

 NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network
70007 in traffic - West Coasts 47 500 on stock & special train to Stanhope - FGW Class 57s on sleeper stock moves - 57/3 Footex - COLAS 47 to South West - Stock Moves in 4 CIG unit & Class 20s on main line - Loco Haulage News - Flask Traffic - Test Trains with DRS 37 & 57 haulage - 57 on Lickey Incline - Class 60 revival - 86 701 & 87 702 on East London test trains - Special Trains - ‘Wandering Willow’ on Ardingly branch with 73 141 - Shuttles onto Bluebell Railway with 73 141 and Hastings Unit - West Somerset freight - Churnet Valley’s Extension.

EAST COAST DIVERSIONS
Class 67s dragging Class 91s away from the wires of the East Coast main line and over the joint line through Spalding and Lincoln during October.

TRAFFIC SURVEY - The GE Main Line
A wide variety of traffic on the main line from Norwich to London with Class 90s in various liveries of passenger and freight, Class 57s and Class 37s on RHTT duties, and DRS 37s on Flask duties.

TEST TRAINS
Network Rails 31 452 and the ‘Yellow Banana’ HST on the West Coast Main Line over Shap.

LINESIDE INTERLUDE A COLAS
66 on the last of the years timber trains to Ribblehead.

FREIGHT TO THE FAR NORTH
Tank traffic to Lairg on the Far North line with Class 67 and 66 haulage.

LEAF BUSTERS
A round up of the seasons RHTT workings including - DRS power around Carlisle, Class 57s, 66s and Class 37s on duties based on Stowmarket on the East Suffolk, Cromer and Shenfield lines, DBS Class 66s on duties based around Toton, York and Peterborough plus South Wales duty.

‘TUG’ REVIVAL
Class 60s on Iron Ore traffic around Humberside, on stone traffic in the South East, Coal traffic to Fiddlers Ferry and oil duties from Lindsay and Robeston, plus steel and stone traffic in South Wales. Includes Tata liveried 60 099, 60 074 and 60 040.

PARTING SHOTS
Some veteran traction from recent weeks with COLAS 47 and DRS Class 37 haulage to Long Marston.

83 mins approx