Freight No More Volume 1
Today’s rail
freight scene is very different from that of 25 years ago. Block trains
are the mainstay of the current scene - a far cry from the vast amount of
wagonload traffic carried by Speedlink and, more recently, Enterprise
services. But it’s not only the traffic that has changed - so has the
traction. This - the first of two programmes - looks back on freight
trains that no longer run and features many branch lines and terminals
that no longer exist. This first volume covers Scotland, Wales, the North
West, the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside. Among the many nostalgic
items to be featured in this 100-minute DVD are …..
Hunterston-Ravenscraig iron ore; Chivas Regal whisky;
Larbert-Oakleigh ICI tanks; Clitheroe-Gunnie cement; Scottish coal from
Knockshinnoch and Westfield; Dundee and Inverness Speedlink’s; grain to
Roseisle on the Burghead branch; coal to Georgemas Junction; Oban fuel
tanks; Taynuilt timber; Welsh coal from Pontycymer, Marine and Point of
Ayr; Trawsfynydd flasks; Maentwrog Road explosives; Holyhead
Freightliner’s; surplus coal being removed from Padiham power
station; Ellesmere Port-Amlwch chemicals; Burry Port-Coedbach coal;
Stanlow-Aberystwyth fuel tanks; domestic coal to Preston Deepdale and
Llandudno Junction; Ebbw Vale steel; Ripple Lane -Kilnhurst tanks;
Eastgate cement; Redmire limeston; salt from Middlewich; coal trains
leaving Wearmouth, Westoe and Easington collieries; Corkickle ICI chemical
tanks; Freightliner’s Lynemouth-Pengam aluminum ingots; North East coal
trains arriving at Blyth Staithes and Bates export terminal; coal from
Bickershaw colliery and the Selby Drift Mine; coal traffic on the
Sunderland South Dock branch; Grimbsby Tioxide-Roxby gypsum waste;
Broughton Moor MoD....and many more.
Also featured are the last rites at Ashington colliery along with
Blyth Cambois and Sunderland South Dock stabling points, plus some
fascinating views of some of the closed branch lines and freight terminals
as they are today. Not only are there a vast array of commodities and
traffic flows but there is also plenty of nostalgic traction variety too,
featuring loco classes 03/08/20/25/26/31/37/45/47/56/59/60/85/86 and 87.
