North of the Border DVD: Part 2, Scottish Haulage

Description

A profile of the traction scene in the Highlands in the period from 1960 to 1989 featuring a wide range of first-generation traction.

The line to Kyle of Lochalsh in the 1960s: Features Class 24, Class 25, Class 26 and Class 37 haulage on passenger and freight at a wide variety of locations. The locos are in pre-TOPS numbers.

To Kyle of Lochalsh in the 1970s and 1980s: Class 37s are shown on passenger duties.

To the Far North: Traction right from the 1960s to the 1980s when semaphore signalling reigned supreme. We start with a journey from Inverness to Wick and Thurso filmed in the 1960s with Class 25s and Class 26s on both passenger and freight. We then feature the early 1980s with Class 26s, Class 47s and Class 37s on passenger and freight traffic.

From Inverness to Aberdeen: Freight and passenger workings along the route through the North East of Scotland from Inverness to Aberdeen.

Class 37s, Class 47s & Class 26s dominate on this traditionally signalled route in the 1980s.

Through Dundee with loco haulage in the 1980s when the station and the line over the Tay Bridge was still traditionally signalled.

Through Stirling in the 1980s more first generation traction on a line that had changed little since steam days.

The West Highland Line along with the extension to Mallaig with Class 37s in the 1980s.

Kyle Finale and the last scheduled loco hauled passenger trains in 1989.

Push Pull Class 47s in the 1980s on the line through Stirling.

Approx. 75 minutes.

This DVD is being sold on behalf of and with full permission of the copyright owner – Transport Video Publishing (TVP).