Modern Traction Archive: Vol 10 (WCML: Milton Keynes)-British Rail DVD from www.linesidevideos.co.uk

Another West Coast Mainline feast this time from Milton Keynes. This programme is still available in hard-copy DVD from www.linesidevideos.com. If you like our channel, do please subscribe. Many thanks.
Some more sparks effects as we spend a number of different sessions witnessing trains at this busy WCML station - we also call at Wolverton to see the action next to the ‘curves’.
Filmed in 1987 this programme is a perfect accompaniment to Modern Traction Archive: Vol 6, which studied electrics at work up and down the WCML. In this programme we see diesel as well as electric-hauled trains.
Highlights include, BR-blue class 86s and 87s on passenger and freight; class 81s and 85s on freight, class 85s on passenger and parcels workings; pairs of 87s on container trains, class 310 EMUs in action, blue/grey class 317 on driver training duties and even a Midlands’ Yellow-liveried class 312 unit. In addition we have a class 20, a class 56, a class 47 and class 31s on freight.
The class 31s appear on parcels, ecs and ballast workings: highlight is the appearance of a class 08 on the mainline with a speedlink trip working. It’s all here - if you want the fast and furious, mixed with the slow and leisurely, then the action through this station certainly fits the bill - it’s real nostalgia time!
This programme is ideal for reminiscing or for modellers keen to see yesteryear consists.

[@3mmnon-triang689]

reminds me of days spent at Roade junction. 1 train per minute.

[@AndreiTupolev]

So there were only four through tracks through the station then then? Platform 6, and the through track through platform 1, didn't exist then 🤔

[@fatwalletboy2]

At 6.03 was that lead TSO a declassified FO?