Diesel & Electric Blue 4

Diesel & Electric Blue 4 takes another nostalgic trip in the time machine to the days of corporate BR blue livery in the 1970s and 1980s.

Locomotives from twenty different classes are featured, including a rare North British hydraulic and the virtually unknown Class 74, alongside a supporting cast of long-departed DMUs and EMUs.

Highlights include:

• A visit to the racing stretch north of York with Classes 31, 37, 40, 45, 47 and 55
• Class 85s at Stafford
• The 'Deltic Pioneer' railtour to Carlisle in 1979 with 55022
• Class 506 EMUs at Guide Bridge with 31, 40 and 47s too
• 47582 on the Royal Mail stamp launch special
• A Thornaby 37 on the VSOE at Perth
• DMU Classes 101, 104,105, 107, 110, 114, 115,120, 122, 123, 124 and 127
• 20184 at Leicester
• HSTs at Pilmoor
• Pairs of 37s on Freightliners
• Colchester with a variety of loco-hauled and EMU services including a Class 309
• Class 73 E6021 banking a 4-COR EMU on the Folkestone ramp
• E6040 with the '2-BIL Farewell' at Twickenham
• A Class 74 on a boat train at Southampton
• Hastings units at London Bridge
• 33s on freight at Southampton
• St Paddy at King's Cross in 1974
• Alycidon on the 'Deltic Detour' at Hellifield
• Crepello on the S&C in 1978
• Tulyar at Rainhill
• Ballymoss at Doncaster
• 50024 at Paddington in 1975
• D140, D1059, Hymeks and a Class 22 at Bristol
• Plus a 1972 visit to Cardiff Canton.

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

DVD features: Motion menus and scene selection.

Produced by - Visions International
Running time - 69 Minutes
Format - 4:3
DVD only
Released - 2009