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THE WEST LONDON LINE

The West London Line Volume One

Filmed between: 12 December 1994 and 4 September 1999 Loco classes featured: 20, 33, 37, 47, 56, 58, 59/1, 60, 73/1, 86 and 87/1. Also features some Heritage DMUs, and HSTs. Steam is represented by 46521 on a Santa Special. Locations visited: Acton Lane - Willesden High Level - Up/Dn South West - Mayer Parry Private Sidings - Mitre Bridge Level Crossing - Mitre Bridge Junction - Mitre Bridge - Old Oak Flyover - Grand Union Canal DMU cab rides between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction and Willesden Junction to Kensington Olympia Exceptional footage includes: Loco convoy of 60098, 60009, 47501, 47519 (green) and 47535, 87101 Stephenson on the Dagenham to Liverpool Silcock Express, 86101 Sir William A Stanier FRS on a London to Glasgow Express, Convoy of five 37s, 37376 departing Willesden High Level with a heavy ballast, 47301 red sole bar and Kingfisher motive, 47004 Old Oak Common Traction and Maintenance Depot in two tone green livery light engine, 58023 in Mainline livery departing Mayer Parry Willesden to Cardiff Tidal, 47826 Thor in white undercoat, 56074 on the Grain to Llandarcy bitumen tanks, 47976 on the Birmingham to Ramsgate XC, DRS 20303 and 37612 on the Mercia Charter 'Best of Both Worlds' railtour on Saturday 4 September 1999 at Mitre Bridge Junction, 33026 and 33057 crossing Mitre Bridge on Pathfinder's 'The Southern Coasterman' on 20 April 1996.

The West London Line Volume Two

Filmed between: 6 June 1993 and 4 September 1999 Loco Classes: 20, 33, 37, 47, 56, 59/0, 59/1, 60, 73/1, 90, and 92. There are also some Heritage DMUs and HSTs and one DEMU. Steam is represented by SR 828. Locations visited: Addison Gardens Bridge - Kensington Olympia - Olympia Way - Addison Bridge Place - Warwick Road - Lille Bridge - West Brompton LUL - West Brompton BR - West Brompton Park. Exceptional footage includes: The line before and after 'modernisation', Kensington South Main signal box, 47322 and 47973 Derby Evening Telegraph on the Grain to Crewe freightliner, 33101 Hertfordshire Railtours propelling Directors Saloon, 207010 on the 'Kenny Belle'., 47376 Kenny Cockbird on the Willesden to Dover ferry vans., Loco convoy 47524, 47640 and 47547, 37603 hauling the Brighton to Manchester XC, Very rare footage of TripleX loco 37601 and 37603, D9000 on its inaugural Birmingham to Ramsgate service, DRS 20303 and 37612 plus CT 37604 on the Mercia Charter 'Best of Both Worlds' railtour on Saturday 4 September 1999, 37211 and 37426 on the Class 37 Group/Shropshire Rail 'The Exibitionist' from Chester to the Mid-Hants Railway., Very rare footage of 73101 on the Willesden to Dover TPO, Class 90 at Kensington Olympia, 930 001 Route Learner, 455868 on the ‘Kenny Belle’, HSTs on the short lived European connecting services, Euro-star on test.