Class 47 Freight at Melton Mowbray & Asfordby Tunnel | Petfoods and Ballast Trains 1992
This archive footage features a BR Class 47 arriving and departing the famous Pedigree Petfoods sidings at Melton Mowbray — a location once synonymous with distinctive rail-served freight traffic.
The second part of the video moves to Asfordby Tunnel, where another Class 47 emerges from the single-line section with empty ballast wagons before accelerating through the tunnel on the double-track section.
These scenes capture a railway landscape that has changed dramatically since the early 1990s, including freight flows and infrastructure now long gone.
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BR Class 47 locomotives
Pedigree Petfoods sidings, Melton Mowbray
Asfordby Tunnel
Empty ballast trains
Railfreight operations in 1992
Vintage East Midlands railway action
If you enjoy classic British freight trains, 1990s railway nostalgia, and rare archive footage from the final years of BR, this video should be right up your street.
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It shows a Class 47 arriving and departing the Pedigree Petfoods sidings, highlighting the area’s historical role in rail-served freight traffic. The footage also includes a Class 47 emerging from Asfordby Tunnel with empty ballast wagons, moving through the double-track section after traversing the single-line route. These scenes reflect the railway landscape and freight operations of the early 1990s, now largely changed.
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