Big Freight 7

The seventh DVD in the Big Freight series produced by Train Crazy in co-operation with Videoscene and Freightmaster looks at the ever-popular and ever-changing rail freight scene in the UK. With new locos, new liveries, and new flows, once again, we go in search of the longest, the heaviest, and the biggest freight trains. Included in this edition is a feature on the Fiddlers Ferry coal circuit which probably employs the most varied traction anywhere, with classes 59, 60, and 66 working for DB Schenker, classes 66 and 70 for Freightliner, and throwing in a GBRf class 66 on the Gypsum trains and it’s an interesting freight-only railway. One of the longest and most extreme freight trains of modern times has been the movement of big yellow pipes from Hartlepool to Georgemas Junction. Only running on certain dates and with an overnight path, it’s only possible to film this train on the Far North line during a few weeks of mid-summer and that is what we did. See footage of 66099 on its epic journey on Britain’s most northern freight flow. Includes footage of the unloading at Georgemas and the empties back. The scenic railways of the Cumbrian Coast and the S & C offer diverse freight flows. See the various flask and acid trains on the Cumbrian and for anybody following current freight workings on the S & C, that magical 90-minute period with gypsum, engineers, coal, and logs makes this line THE place to be on a fine sunny afternoon. As well as the locomotives, a staggering number of different wagons and flows are featured including coal, steel, containers, intermodal, engineers, logs, oil, stone, coke, cement, lime, scrap, gypsum, china clay, water cannon, alumina and flasks.