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The programme is split into 6 chapters. Here are a
selection of 'frame grabs' taken from the video to
illustrate the scenes in each chapter.
Chapter 1 EAST MIDLANDS AND YORKSHIRE
58015 accelerates an MGR past Trent Lock on 14 October 1991.
58049 carrying the original red-solebar livery passes Pye Bridege Jn, Alfreton on 19 August 1991
Chapter 2 WEST MIDLANDS
58011 passes through Wolverhampton on 23 June 1998 with an empty mgr from Ironbridge Power Station to Toton.
58002 still carrying '1Z58 Worksop Aberdionian' stencilled on the front, passes Whitacre Jn on 7 April 2000 with 6P85 Toton-Daw Mill mgr.
Chapter 3 THE SOUTH AND EAST
58037 hauls the failed 59205 and it's very late running 6A74 2314 Calvert-Northolt binliner empties past Princes Risborough on 5 April 2002.
On 16 August 2002 the famous Quidhampton tanks passes Salisbury with celebrity 58045 at the head.
Chapter 4 WALES AND THE WEST
In the short period that 58s handled the Westbury to Exeter aggregate traffic 58046+58025 head past Rewe, 5 miles North of Exeter on 9 July 1999.
Chapter 5 PASSENGER DUTIES
It seems a long time ago that 58s were a common sight on the Nuneaton 'drags'. Here
58006 dragging 86252 comes off the Nuneaton line at Whitacre Jn on 9 October 1988 with the 1040 Euston-Wolverhampton.
58021 passes Tipton with a failed 47810and the 0850 Glasgow-Penzance on 21 January 1999.
58044 at speed near Dorridge with the 1230 Paddington-Glasgow of 21 June 1998.
Something of a scoop - A 58 dragging an HST. Seen here at Reading is 58047 with the 1120 Bournemouth-Edinburgh of 4 June 2001.
Chapter 6 RAILTOURS
Definitely a first and last !
Not one but Two Class 58s, 58046 & 58002 leave Aberdeen with the returning 'Worksop Aberdonian' of 21 September 1996.
58033 blasts through Sherborne in Dorset on 9 June 2002 with the Hertfordshire 'Desert Mule' tour
The 'Cornish Explorer' tour of 29 June 2002 brought the first and last sight of a Class 58 into the Duchy. Here 58021 leans into the curve at Gwinnear Road in deepest Cornwall, once junction for the Helston branch.
Unfortunately the Class 58 failed to restart for the return at Longrock depot Penzance and was returned home 'dead'.
58045 and 58025 head North on the Highland main line with the 'Worksop Highlander' of 29 June 2002.
The final Class 58 hauled railtour ran on 1st September 2002 when 58024 ran to Skegness from Kings Cross. Here the train passes Wainfleet in Lincolnshire.