Video Track 141 April/May 2011 Blu-ray

 NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network

DRS 37s on Scrap trains to Sheerness - DRS 37 on stock move to Long Marston - Class 20 and Class 73 convoy from Tonbridge to Bristol - Network Rail 97 to Central Wales - Class 31 test train on Bletchley Flyover - Class 31 on move to Okehampton - 47 580 on railtour - Class 67s on tour including ‘Barmouth Bridge Explorer’ - Class 57/37 flask duty - was to be worked by 67 haulage from Euston to Barmouth. Here the train takes the Central Wales line to Shrewsbury - 67 018 ‘Keith Haller’ on new Banbury loco hauled service - The last Wrexham, Shrewsbury and Marylebone services - HST diversions over the Chiltern line - New COLAS duty to South Wales - Loco haulage into Victoria - First withdrawals of LT ‘A’ stock - New West Coast loco hauled duty - Inverness Sleeper - Class 70 duties and 70 011 in service - DRS 57 on Blackburn vans - 56 312 on a stock move - River Don Rambler with 60 099 and Class 31s.

CLASS 60 NEWS: Action on coal duties to Fiddler’s Ferry. Oil duties from Humberside including Theale tanks from South Wales and Lindsey and departmental duties. Includes 60 011 in new DB Schenker red livery at Peak Forest.

RAILS TO OKEHAMPTON: Trains from Okehampton to Bow with 31 454 plus archive from the early 1990s of Class 33s and Class 37s on stone traffic to Meldon Quarry.

LINES THAT TIME FORGOT: The railways around Worcester and Droitwich with their remarkable collection of semaphore signals and boxes.

CLASS 57 HAULAGE: The One Wales Express from Holyhead to Cardiff and the Penzance sleeper both with 57 power.

COLAS 47S: Colas fleet of Class 47s on engineering and steel traffic. Includes workings to South Wales and Boston Docks, plus Long Marston moves. Includes double heading.

HSTS UNDER THE SEMAPHORES: Scenes ‘Under the Semaphores’ in Cornwall.

LINESIDE LOCATIONS: Sharnbrook Summit on the Midland Main Line including double headed Class 60s on the Colnbrook Tanks.

SNOW: More scenes from the ‘Big Freeze’ of December.

PARTING SHOTS: DRS 37s on the Midland Main Line on scrap to Sheerness and 60 039 on tanks to Lindsey.

Widescreen format - 1hr 26min approx