Diesel & Electric Blue 3

Diesel & Electric Blue 3 takes another nostalgic journey back in time to the days of corporate BR Blue livery in the 1970s and 1980s.

Locomotives from eighteen different classes feature on a fascinating variety of workings, and there's even a rare shot of a Tinsley 'humper'!

Highlights include:

• 40197 at Ipswich on Bathgate-bound cars
• Stratford 47s on Norwich expresses
• A pair of 25s on an oil train at Crewe
• A 25 at Reading
• A pair of Grids on a stone working
• 50031 and 50024 paired up on parcels
• A 47 towing a failed HST
• A Class 128 parcels unit
• 37s on Freightliners
• A split-box 45 on an MGR
• On board 55003's Merrymaker tour from Sheffield to Carlisle, which also features 84003
• A 47/7 on diversion at Hellifield
• DC EMUs - Broad Street Class 501s
• Merseyside 503s and Hadfield 506s
• A Class 85 on the Manchester Pullman
• A 40 on a Freightliner at York
• Peaks on passenger
• A white-cabbed Crompton at Clapham Junction plus an ex-works 33202
• 73130 on empty stock at Clapham
• Deltics at York
• 37223 at Cardiff
• Class 85s on freight and Class 87s on passenger
• Peaks at St Pancras in the early 1980s
• A 37 on nuclear flasks
• 76s on the Woodhead
• And the Class 13 mentioned earlier.

All this and plenty more will keep you entertained and bring the memories flooding back.

A detailed and entertaining narration is provided by David Maxey.

This DVD also includes motion menus and scene selection.

Produced by - Visions International
Running time - 66 Minutes
Format - 4:3
DVD only
Released - 2008