Train Truckers

Expert hauliers Eric Harrison and Chris Case move The Royal Highland Fusilier halfway across the country to the Great Central Railway's Diesel Gala in Loughborough.

Heavy haulage experts Ian Bagladi and Jamie Turnbull need to move a classical but abandoned 63-year-old, 70-tonne locomotive, through the English countryside.

The truckers are in Germany to pick up a maintenance machine so big that it has to be loaded onto two trucks, and Eric and Chris go to Dorset to pick up a heavy diesel locomotive.

A fully restored Class 47 diesel engine is transported from its home at Crewe Heritage Centre in Cheshire to the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in Derbyshire.

A CBD80 battery-powered loco needs to be hauled 20 miles from a factory in Burton-on-Trent to the heritage Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire.

In Shropshire, a Great Western Railway 'Modified Hall' steam engine and its tender is being taken out of service as it needs a safety inspection.