DIESEL TRACTION
IN ACTION
Volume 2
audio CD
Recordings from hi-fi stereo tape originals and digital mini-disc recordings
Recorded during 1989 to 1998.
Running time 74 minutes
Classes 17, 25, 26, 27, 35, 40, 42, 44, 45, 50 & 52 on preserved lines.
Classes 20, 31, 33, 37, 46, 47, 50, 55, 56, 58, 60 & HST on the main line.
Highlights include:
**56019 on a Virgin passenger service
**D1041 blasting out of Bury
**56060 slips as it gets a loaded aggregate train moving
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Sample sound (mp3) from track number 27:
Class 20s depart Leicester.
Here is the full recording list:
East Lancs Railway 8th June 1996:
1 - D1041 makes a rapid standing start as only a Western can, from Bury at 1805.
Severn Valley Railway 14th October 1989:
2 - D100 (45060) picks up speed after leaving Bewdley and enters Foley Park Tunnel.
Great Central Railway 1st May 1994:
3 - Class 27 D5401 departs Leicester North with D8098 at the rear.
Mid Hants Railway 4th March 1995:
4 - Class 27 D5353 runs onto its train at Alton.
5 - D5353 sets off from Alton, as 212 (40012) stands nearby.
6 - Class 25 D7659/D4 (44004) emerge from under the road bridge at Leicester North. 1st April 1995.
7 - D4 (+D9019 at the rear) depart Quorn northbound. 21st May 1995.
8* - Warship 832 storms out of Loughborough at 1355. 30th March 1996.
9 - 832 sets off from Leicester North. 30th March 1996.
10* - Hymek/Warship double-header D7076/832 accelerate rapidly away from Loughborough at 1646 (the loco crews sporting Thunderbirds hats!). 30th March 1996.
Battlefield Line 7th June 1998:
12* - 25067 passes over a cross-over and continues towards Shenton.
13 - D5300 (26007) departs Shackerstone at 1303.
East Lancs Railway 11th July 1998:
14 - D200 (40122) pulls out of Summerseat towards Ramsbottom at 1213.
15 - D345 (40145) departs Summerseat with another northbound service.
16 - The only two surviving Warships 832/821 (disguised as D808) pull away from Summerseat heading north.
17 - D1041 (disguised as D1013) runs light at the end of the tunnel at Bury.
18 - D1023 departs Bury at 1644, as D1041 stands in the background.
Severn Valley Railway 10th October 1998:
19* - 444 (50044) opens up shortly after leaving Bridgnorth.
20* - 444 opens up again after a 5mph restriction near Eardington.
21* - Clayton D8568 picks up speed after setting off from Kidderminster.
22 - D8568 pulls out of Bewdley at 1457 on a service for Bridgnorth.
23 - D1013 makes a brisk start from Highley at 1631 heading north.
Kilby Bridge (south of Leicester):
24 - As 56060 stands in the loop, a southbound HST passes by. 56060 then makes a vigorous start at 1931, and gets some wheel-slip. 31st March 1989.
Class 20s return to the Leicester-Skegness service, 1993:
25 - 20132/087 run round the stock at Leicester. 31st August 1993.
26 - 20131/128 are taken off after arrival at Leicester. 3rd September 1993.
27 - 20128/131 depart Leicester's platform l at 2121 with the ECS watched by a crowd of enthusiasts (the final 'Skeggy' ever?). 3rd September 1993.
1st preserved diesel-hauled railtour:
28 - D172 (46035) eases away from Leicester at 1304 on its way from Derby to St.Pancras (see front cover photo). 1st October 1994.
29* - D9000 accelerates through a snowy Retford, southbound at 2024.
Pilmoor (north of York) 29th March 1997:
30 - 43061/057 rush passed southbound at 1852.
Stafford 14th November 1997:
31 - 37705 gets a train of nuclear flasks under way northwards at 0748.
Birmingham International 30th May 1998:
32 - 47805 (having replaced 37611 at New Street) departs for Brighton.
Oxford 20th June 1998:
33 - Virgin Trains 1406 ex-Birmingham NS to Bournemouth produced railfreight/red-stripe liveried 56019 heard here leaving Oxford at 1542.
In the driving cab of D9000:
34* - On our way back to Birmingham from Ramsgate, D9000 accelerates through Kings Sutton after a signal check and is then checked again.
Wolverhampton 8th August 1998:
35 - 47375 parked in a siding, is fired up.
50031 in the Welsh Valleys 16th August 1998:
36* - 50031 departs Caerphilly heading south at 1029.
37* - During a photo-stop at Pontypridd, 50031 is started up.
Stafford 22nd August 1998:
38 - 60046 accelerates through northwards (Roadstone/Tiphookrail working).
Leicester 29th August 1998:
39 - 58029 passes through on a railtour to Toton open weekend at 1148 as a St.Pancras bound HST pulls away in the background.
Stafford 12th September 1998:
40 - 37415 departs for Birmingham on an NWT service from Holyhead.
41 - 37415 makes a brisk start on its way back to Holyhead at 1242.
Class 31s running on Bedford-Bletchley services 12th October 1998:
42* - 31452 departs Kempston Hardwick for Bletchley (31468 dead at rear).
43 - 31452 departs Millbrook as the crossing-gates are opened by hand.
Leicester 21st November 1998:
44 - 33103 arrives and then departs at 1844 on a railtour returning from Cambridgeshire to Crewe.
* denotes on-train recording.
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