TRACTION 2003 Part 1
We thought we had
covered just about every working imaginable in the previous 15
programmes in this series. We were wrong!! and no one is more surprised than
us, because yet again we have more than enough footage to fill 90 minutes with
just 5 months!! Here’s a small taster of
what you can expect to see…
DRS Class 47s leaving Springburn Works following
overhaul, Class 58s leave the UK for Spain, 20 301 + 37 610 on the
mothballed Methil branch with the DRS freight trial to Cameron Bridge,
Royal Mail diversions over the Chiltern Line, Class 31s venture to Fort
William with the Ultrasonic Test Train, 56 114 working a Rhymney-Cardiff
service, 37 038 on the Avonmouth-Crewe Cars, 47 270 hauling the Stanlow-Humber
tanks, 47 197 on Heavy Haul coal duties, 46 035 hauling the Bristol-Old
Oak Common mail vans, 56 018 at Tiverton (that’s Tiverton in Devon!)
with a rake of HAA coal hoppers, 4 x DRS Class 37s on the Grangemouth-Daventry, Class 14 D9504 shunting steel traffic at Chatham
Docks, 47 812 on the Dagenham-Calvert ‘Bins’, Class 31s return to
Portsmouth Harbour on service trains, 87 001 transformed back into BR
corporate blue, D1015 on the North Wales coast, 57 306 visits Whitby,
EPS’s 73 130 on the Shepperton branch with the Serco Test Train, Class
33s on ‘Desiro’ stock moves for South West Trains, 31 459 ventures
to Stranraer and Milngavie with an Inspection Saloon, Class 73s on the
Barnstaple branch en-route to Meldon Quarry…and FOUR HST power
cars running light engine from Longsight to Laira.
"Plenty of thrash and
variety make this another winner!" TRACTION MAGAZINE
