News and Forthcoming Programmes
Updated 17/07/10
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SWANAGE
DIESELS
Regular
viewers of our programmes may like to know that we have recently
produced a fund raising DVD for the Swanage Railway. Titled ‘Swanage
Diesels’, the programme features the best of the first five diesel
galas (from 2006 to 2010) that have been held at the railway. The 6 mile
line has had an impressive array of visiting locos during its first five
events and this DVD features every one of them. In fact no fewer than 15
different loco classes are showcased hard at work in the scenic
surrounds of the Dorset countryside -
07/0820/26/31/33/37/45/47/50/52/55/56/66/73. And that’s not all. This
DVD also includes a fabulous bonus feature – an exclusive 30 minute
cab ride from Wareham to Corfe Castle. Filmed on board GB
Railfreight’s 73 208, the view from the cab includes the little used
track between Worgret Junction and the Network Rail boundary point at
Motala.
This
DVD is now available exclusively from the Swanage Railway and can be
purchased via their website, whose link is www.swanagerailwaytickets.co.uk/product.php?xProd=1404&xSec=141
FORTHCOMING RELEASE…
SOLENT
SULZER
This
will be a brand new ‘Wired for Sound’ programme, providing a
nostalgic blast from the past. This cab ride features 47 827 from
Portsmouth Harbour to Reading, the Brush Type 4 working Virgin
CrossCountry’s 1M32 service to Blackpool North. The journey was filmed
in June 1999 during the short period that the 47-hauled service was
running out of the harbour terminus. The route is one that has seen
little in the way of passenger or freight traction for many years. After
leaving the harbour, the train travels through Portsmouth & Southsea
and Fratton to Havant where it takes the steeply-graded Portsmouth
Direct Route. First it climbs the South Downs through Rowlands Castle to
Buriton summit and that’s followed by another climb – this time over
the Western Weald through Liss and Liphook to Haslemere. After
descending to Guildford the1M32 takes the North Downs route across
Surrey Heath through Ash Vale, North Camp, Sandhurst and Wokingham to
Reading where it joins the Great Western Main Line. Like all of our
‘Wired for Sound’ titles, this programme is now history. This DVD is
due for release in mid-July, priced at £19.95.
TRACTION
2010 – Part 1
Programme
number 30 (is it really that many?!) in the Traction series will cover
the six months from 1st January to 30th June. Once again, traction
events and notable workings have come thick and fast and this DVD will
bring you the best from what has been a fascinating first half of 2010.
Here are a few of the items that will feature in the forthcoming
DVD…..37 601 working Royal mail trains for GBRf, Royal-liveried 67 005
on the Sinfin tanks, 57 603 hauling a Hull Trains Class 180 DMU from
Bounds Green to Old Oak Common, 60 096 ventures to Onllwyn colliery, 37
510 + 37 667 hauling the Tyne Dock-Sheerness scrap, 59 201 back on MGR
coal traffic in the East Midlands, 57 602 & 57 605 vice DMU ‘top
& tailing’ the 09.01 Oxford-Paddington, 20 304 working East
Anglian passenger services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft,
Fastline’s 66 305 ventures south to Thorney Mill, 91 121 on an East
Coast HST drag, triple-headed Class 47s on the Boston steel, Class 37s
and 57s on DRS intermodals, 86 701 + 86 702 on a Chiltern Railways DVT
test train, Class 20s hauling new LUL S stock, 47 739 hauling Grand
Central HST stock from Stoke to Heaton, the extraordinary visit of 73
107 to London Paddington, 66 728 hauling Royal Mail Class 325 units to
Fort William….and 37 409, 55 022 and Class 50 D444 all make welcome
returns to the main line.
Traction
2010 Part is due for release in mid-August.
LONDON
ORBITAL
Although
we have previously announced London Orbital as a forthcoming release,
work on this programme has been put back until the autumn. For those of
you who are reading about this for the first time, this will be our
Capital Crompton and Capital Syphons cab ride programmes (from Hoo
Junction to Temple Mills) together in one package, revised, re-mastered
and updated. So this is just to let you know that we still intend to
release it – and that it will be out before Christmas!
VHS
TAPES. . . .
As
demand for VHS is now minimal, we have deleted all our titles on tape
which are now available on DVD. Please note that none of the TRACTION
series are available on VHS
, the
early years having been covered in our
TRACTION DECADE DVD. We have also reduced the VHS programmes down to ten
titles. These are as follows…..VAC
ATTACK, BATH ROAD, CLASS 40 STORY, CLASS 37 POWER, CROMPTON COUNTDOWN,
TRAINLOAD TYPE 5s, MEDWAY CROMPTON, 50s THE FINAL YEARS, CLASS 50 FINALE
and FALL & RISE OF THE 50s. Please
note that due to the massive increase in Royal Mail charges for items of
this size and weight there is an additional postage & packing charge
of £1 per tape. Thus the total cost of a VHS tape is £17.95
CATALOGUE
Although our website
contains details on our current range of programmes you may prefer to
browse through a ‘hard copy’ of our catalogue which you can request
by e-mailing us your details at helpline@locomaster.co.uk
