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Power Hour 9

Wrapping up a series that has run for 22 years is the ninth and final ‘POWER HOUR’ programme. This volume sticks to the winning formula of the previous eight editions - main line diesel locos hard at work on the national rail network, where each scene has one or more of the following ingredients - full-on power, stiff gradients or standing starts. With some added clag and wheelslip, the result is a series of spectacular shots filmed over a ten-year period from 2011 to 2021. The programme (which actually runs for 90 minutes) features no fewer than 80 different main line locos - old and new - on a diverse range of workings from around the country. They include…

FREIGHT WORKINGS: 50008 thundering along the WCML with a rail grinder in tow, 37099 & 37418 & 97304 triple-heading a Cambrian ballast, 68006 on the Mountsorrel-Carlisle ballast, 56302 opening up under Paisley Gilmour Street’s glass roof, 60015 performing a standing start on the Scunthorpe-Lackenby steel slabs, 56081 clagging away from Melton Mowbray, 56094 screaming up Llanvihangel bank on the Baglan Bay-Chirk timber, 50049 waking up Woburn Sands on a GBRf stock move, 20118 & 20132 at full tilt on autumn leaf-fall duties, 70002 & 66620 climbing through Peak Forest on a 4,000 tonne jumbo stone train while being banked by 70016...and 37605 & 37610 slogging up Shap with the Daventry-Mossend intermodal!
PASSENGER WORKINGS & RAILTOURS: DRS’s 37259 & 37605 wheel-slipping away from York, 33025 at full tilt through Datchet, 20308 & 20312 powering over the Vale of Glamorgan line, 47593 & 47805 providing multiple-thrash at Exeter St Davids, 37401 shattering the peaceful surrounds of the scenic Cumbrian coast, 20142 and 33012 stretching their legs over the Chiltern/LUL Metropolitan Line, 40013 tackling the Lickey incline, 37518 blasting out of Mallaig, 56087 climbing Copy Pit on the ‘Scarborough Spa Express’, 50007 & 50049 pounding up Shap on their way to Glasgow, heritage traction hard at work over the S&C on the 2020 series of ‘Staycation Express’ services...and 57001 obliterating Edinburgh Waverley!

POWER HOUR 9 features 12 different locomotive classes - 20, 33, 37, 40, 47, 50, 56, 57, 60, 66, 68 and 70.

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