New video release documents the end of the class 507 and 508 on Merseyrail
Posted on 8th March 2025 at 5:03 pm
The third and final programme in Train Crazy's Class 507 & 508 trilogy will be released next week. “The End” looks at the final 14 months of operations, with the three farewell tours, lots of rare moves and unusual stuff and 507001 entering preservation.
The video is available on DVD and Blu-ray. For more details and to pre-order, visit the Videoscene website.
A detailed look at the final 14 months of Class 507 and 508 operation on Merseyside, filmed October 2023 to November 2024.
Includes:-
- Formby crossover
- Aintree crossover
- mega-rare wrong-line working at Moorfields
- an evening at West Kirby with 507s, 508s and 777s all in service
- ten diagram Southport Saturdays
- Hall Road crossover
- 508 Sunset Tour with 508139+508141
- Rock Ferry crossover
- Liverpool South Parkway crossover
- 507028 – the last 507 to Kirkby?
- 1st January 2024
- 3 x 508s left
- 507001 goes blue and grey
- Hooton platform 1
- 507021 & 777020 stuck at Chester
- last of the 507s on the New Brighton line
- 6-car all day Southport diagrams
- 5 x 6-car 507s for Grand National festival
- Wirral Swan Song tour with 507001+507003
- The Sefton Sparkler tour with 507001+507023
- and 507001 moves into preservation.
Produced by – Train Crazy
Running time – 100 minutes
Format – 16:9
DVD and Blu-ray
Released – March 2025
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