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This issue of Railway News features HSTs in the west, Class 52 D1015, Class 40 D213 and Class 33 33012 on tour. Plus stock moves, an EMR Class 810 Aurora on test and a look at the South Western Railway Class 455s as their withdrawal from service draws ever closer.
In this issue railtour action with Class 90, Class 33, Class 37, Class 50, Class 67 and Class 59 power. Railfreight variety with Class 56, Class 59 and Class 66 locomotives at work and other notable workings.
My 2024 Thrash compilation featuring Class 37, 40, 47, 50, 52 Western, 55 Deltic, 56 and 70 diesel locomotives. This compilation comprised of my best clips filmed between 2023 and the beginning of 2024 with diesel locomotives hard at work on the UK mainline.
The Class 66 diesel locomotive operated by GBRf at work hauling a variety of freight trains across the network. These include intermodal freights, aggregates trains, departmental trains and weekend engineers traffic. Filmed at the lineside between 20222 and 2024.
Class 56s numbers 56049, 56051, 56081, 56091, 56098, 56103, 56104, 56105, 56113, 56301, 56302, 56303 and 56312 owned by GBRf, DCR and Colas at work on the UK mainline between 2015 and 2024.
In this issue an HST returns to the Midland Mainline, freight with Class 60 and Class 56 power, a Class 40 on tour, Class 47s on railtours and a stock moves plus unseen footage from the end of 2023 and the start of 2024.
A look at the West Anglia Main Line featuring the now withdrawn Greater Anglia Class 170s, Class 317s and Class 379s, and the new build Class 720s, Class 745s and Class 755s which replaced them. I will also look at the freight, RHTT and other special working that operate over the line.
With the recent announcement that Direct Rail Services is to retire its fleet of Class 37 locomotives in this video I look back at the DRS Class 37s in action on the mainline. In this second episode I will look at the passenger operation on the Cumbrian Coast and the Wherry Lines in East Anglia...
With the recent announcement that Direct Rail Services is to retire its fleet of Class 37 locomotives in this video I look back at the DRS Class 37s in action on the mainline. In this first part I look at Railtours, Charters, the “Cruise Saver Express" Boat Trains, the ‘Caroline’ Inspection...
A look back at the history of Cross Country Trains, including the British Rail Intercity era, the Virgin and the current Arriva CrossCountry franchises.
With DB Cargo UK recently announcing that it intends to withdraw all of its remaining operational Class 60s I have taken the opportunity to look back at the history of the class followed by a compilation of EWS/DB Class 60 workings in recent years.
‘Freightliner Railfreight Variety’ featuring Class 66, Class 70 and Class 90 diesel and electric locomotives operated by Freightliner hard at work on a variety freight workings during 2023.
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