Trainload Type 5's
WITH
an outstanding selection of traction variety, this programme also has
some remarkable footage dating back almost 20 years! Over 110 different
Type 5s are featured in action hauling virtually every type of freight
commodity, plus various passenger and railtour duties:
CLASS 56: Chatham-Forders Waste, Middleton Towers Sand, Kent Coal,
Llanwern Iron Ore, Little Barford Flyash, Sheerness Steel, Mendip
Aggregates, South Wales Petroleum, Denby Coal, West London Binliners, Double-headed
Grids on Dainton!
CLASS 58: Toton-Ashburys Speedlink, Lawley Street
Freightliners, Fletton Flyash, Didcot-Chessington Coal, 58002’s
legendary 1984 HST drag to Plymouth! 58050 on Sepex trials, Nuneaton ‘drags’,
Class 47 test-bed 47901.
CLASS 59: The maiden test runs of 59003 & 59104 between Derby &
London, the record-breaking Savernake trials, three Class 59s on Europe’s
longest (1 mile) and heaviest (11,982 tonnes) train, Class 59
maintenance at Merehead explained.
CLASS 60: Official film of Class 60s undergoing construction at
Brush, 60001 & 60002 undergoing trials on the Old Dalby Test Track and
in the Cairngorms, Redmire Limestone, Bickershaw Coal,
Hunterston-Ravenscraig Iron Ore.
A comprehensive profile of Classes 56, 58, 59 & 60 covering the
years 1984 to 1993 when the BR Type 5 fleet was at full strength - long
before the arrival of the 66s!
"Tune in to 75 absorbing minutes of heavy
freight ... Rewind, quick!" RAIL
