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Power Hour 5 (and a half)
This
programme follows the format and standard of the four previous programmes in
the 'Power Hour' series. In other words, it's a DVD crammed full of
thrash, noise and clag as diesel locos are pushed to the limit....and
beyond! There are no preserved railways here as all the scenes
are from the national network where locomotives can really stretch their
legs and be put to the test. Among the ear-shattering collection of scenes
that feature in this 90 minute programme are…37 417 ‘wheel-slipping’
on a steel train at Gaer Junction, 56 032 thundering out of the Boulby
Potash mine, 33 207 struggling to get a heavy ballast train away from
Shortlands, 47 739 & 47 727 at full tilt on the Boston steel,
nocturnal flaming from 37 405 over Copy Pit, 20 227 & 20 142 at full
power through Barnetby with a RHTT, 37 685 & 37 688 staggering out of
Peak Forest with RMC aggregates to Bletchley, 56 091 pounding through
Cleland cutting on the Shotts line, 37 065 rousing the Chilterns with the
Aylesbury-Thameshaven tanks, 47 338 & 47 306 rattling the canopy at
Hatch End on the Watford DC Lines, 33 019 & 33 202 opening up at
Ealing Broadway on the Park Royal sand, 40 145 staggering towards Sugar
Loaf summit, D1015 clagging away from Didcot North Junction en route to
Carlisle, 57 003 & 57 004 obliterating Stowmarket station, 40 145
breasting Lickey summit, triple-headed Class 31s powering through Taplow, XP64
liveried 47 853 climbing towards Coppull Moor summit, 31 450 & 31 465
storming away from Woking with the luxury VSOE, 37 308 pounding up
Camberley bank with an Alton-Victoria stock working, 55 022 clagging out
West Ealing on a GBRf staff special to Weston-Super-Mare, 50 049 providing
some Vac thrash for Arriva Trains Wales services, 47 840 powering away
from Motherwell on a Virgin West Coast rescue mission, 57 309 screaming
out of London Euston on a Pendolino drag, major ‘wheel-slip’ in France
from 37 685...and 55 022 at full tilt through Dumbarton Central with GB
Railfreight's Fort William-North Blyth Alcan tanks.
Power
Hour 5 comprises footage filmed between 1991 and 2012 and features loco
classes 20,31,33,37,40,47,50,52,55,56,57 and 58 hard at work on a variety
of passenger and freight duties.
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Programme Fact File
Introduction: David Maxey
First Published: 2012
Route Featured: From all over the UK
Classes Featured: 20,31,33,37,40,47,50,52,55,56,57 and 58.
Availability: Now
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Other Locomaster Profiles Programmes featuring a similar range of
motive power: Power Hour 1, 2 & 3, Power
Hour 4, Power Hour 6,
Power Hour 7,
Power Hour 8,
Freight
No More Vol 1, Freight
No More Vol 2, The Traction Series, and Stay
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