This video shows the result of a long day (08:3017:30) spent at Tamworth station, which is a splitlevel station that lies on both the WCML and the CrossCountry Mainline. During the day, we see a variety of CrossCountry, Avanti West Coast and LNWR passenger services, alongside a staggering 34 freight/special workings, as detailed below with the time they appear in the video:
00:06 GBRf 66740 on the 03:10 Felixstowe North Trafford Park Euroterminal working.
01:06 Freightliner 66546 on the 02:50 Felixstowe North FLT Garston FLT
02:48 Colas Track Machine DR 73929 on the 08:57 Nuneaton Civil Engineers Lichfield Trent Valley CE Sidings
03:03 Freightliner 66515 on the 06:08 Leeds FLT Southampton MCT
04:03 DB Schenker 66122 on the 08:59 Crewe Basford Hall Mountsorrel Sidings
04:53 DB Schenker 66024 on the 01:04 Dollands Moor Sidings Ditton Foundry Lane
07:14 Freightliner 66414 & 70006 on the 09:21 Crewe Basford Hall Southampton MCT
08:01 Freightliner 86628 leads a classmate through the lower level on the 05:00 Trafford Park FLT Felixstowe North FLT
08:42 GBRf 66787 on the 05:48 Southampton West Docks Doncaster iPort
09:28 DRS 66421 on the 06:35 South Bank Tees Dock Daventry DRS 'Tesco' service
10:07 DB Schenker 66110 on the 09:17 Trafford Park Euroterminal Southampton West Docks
11:05 DRS 88006 is overtaken by an AWC pendolino as it passes through the lower level on the 05:48 Mossend Down Yard Daventry IRFT
11:45 Royal Mail 325002 on the 11:20 Crewe TMD Willesden PRDC emptystock working
11:54 GBRf 66767 on the 11:10 Bescot Yard Toton North Yard departmental working
12:33 An unidentified DRS Class 88 on the 12:16 Daventry IRFT Mossend Down Yard
13:01 DB Schenker 66015 on the 11:04 Kingsbury Oil Sidings Humber Oil Refinery empty tanks
13:30 DB Schenker 66056 on the 12:39 Burton West Yard Cardiff Tidal T.C
14:15 DB Schenker 66116 on the 07:47 Margam T.C Tees Yard
14:39 Freightliner 70011 on the 09:19 Hope (Earles Sidings) Walsall Freight Terminal
15:11 DB Schenker 60019 on the laterunning 07:15 Lindsey Oil Refinery Kingsbury Oil Sidings
16:02 DB Schenker 66068 on the 12:43 Walsall Freight Terminal Dowlow Briggs Sidings
16:41 AC Locomotive Group's 86401 (Caledonian Sleeper livery) on the 11:15 Wembley IC Depot Carnforth Steamtown
17:10 Freightliner 66568 on the 08:01 Felixstowe North FLT Crewe Basford Hall, whilst DB Schenker 66050 passes in the opposite direction with the 06:06 Mossend Euroterminal Daventry IRFT
17:57 GWR HST powercars 43088 + 43160 on the 08:55 Laira T&RSMD Doncaster Works Wabtec
18:38 GBRf 66747 (NWT livery) on the 10:18 Scunthorpe Trent T.C Eastleigh East Yard
19:36 DB Schenker 66155 on the 06:29 Southampton West Docks Masborough F.D
20:05 A Colas Rail track machine on the 13:39 Rugby D.E.D Lichfield North Jn
20:33 Freightliner 66513 on the 09:12 Felixstowe North FLT Trafford Park FLT
21:16 DB Schenker 60001 on the 10:02 Wolverhampton Steel Terminal Masborough F.D
21:54 Rail Operations Group 57312 hauls an Inspection saloon on the 15:16 Tyseley TMD Butterley (M.R.C), which was used earlier in the day for a private stakeholder charter to Round Oak Steel Terminal in conjunction with proposals for an ultralight rail service between Stourbridge Junction and Brierley Hill
22:09 Freightliner 66544 on the 09:25 Southampton MCT Garston FLT
22:41 Freightliner 66549 on the 12:18 Leeds FLT Southampton MCT
23:48 A Royal Mail Class 325 speeds through on the 14:39 Crewe TMD (E) Northampton
24:00 GBRf 66740 on the 14:18 Trafford Park Euroterminal Felixstowe North
24:43 Freightliner 66556 on the 13:00 Southampton MCT Trafford Park FLT
25:25 Freightliner 66587 (ONE livery) on the 14:03 Ditton FL Felixstowe North FLT
25:56 Freightliner 66507 on the 09:32 Felixstowe North FLT Ditton FLT