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A special leaflet produced for the final Deltic excursions. |
DELTIC FAREWELL |
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A special leaflet produced for the final Deltic excursions. |
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A BR letter which is itself a historic document. |
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A publicity leaflet for a Deltic hauled excursion. |
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fascinating illustration dating from 1962 by British Rail
Eastern Region and published in the childrens "A Jolly book of Trains". A contemporary timetable for the "Flying Scotsman" is illustrated below. |
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| 9000 | 55022 | Royal Scots Grey |
| 9001 | 55001 | St. Paddy |
| 9002 | 55002 | The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
| 9003 | 55003 | Meld |
| 9004 | 55004 | Queen's Own Highlander |
| 9005 | 55005 | The Prince of Wale's Own Regiment of Yorkshire |
| 9006 | 55006 | The Fife & Forfar Yeomanry |
| 9007 | 55007 | Pinza |
| 9008 | 55008 | The Green Howards |
| 9009 | 55009 | Alicydon |
| 9010 | 55010 | The King's Own Scottish Borderer |
| 9011 | 55011 | The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers |
| 9012 | 55012 | Crepello |
| 9013 | 55013 | The Black Watch |
| 9014 | 55014 | The Duke of Wellington's Regiment |
| 9015 | 55015 | Tulyar |
| 9016 | 55016 | Gordon Highlander |
| 9017 | 55017 | The Durham Light Infantry |
| 9018 | 55018 | Ballymoss |
| 9019 | 55019 | Royal Highland Fusilier |
| 9020 | 55020 | Nimbus |
| 9021 | 55021 | Argyll and Sutherland Highlander |
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The prototype Deltic at the Science Museum in London |
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The up "Talisman" hauling a rake of prototype XP64 carriages. (Photo : Britsh Transport Commission) |
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The "West Riding" express to King's Cross departing from Leeds. (Phot : British Transport Commission) |
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55013 "The Black Watch" awits a north-bound departure at Grantham. |
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55013 "The Black Watch" arrives on platform 2 at Grantham. Waiting in bay platform 3 is a class 114 dmu to Skegness. |
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A north-bound express thunders through Grantham. |
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Another Deltic belts through Grantham on its way to "the Cross". |
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A King's Cross bound service enters Doncaster. |
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King's Cross bound service arrives at Peterborough North - the station undergoing modernisation. |
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North-bound Deltic at York. |
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"Tulyar" arrives at Doncaster. |
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55011 is seen at Skegness reversing from the carriage sidings into the station. On this and several other occasions, "Deltics" hauled the summer Saturdays through trains between King's Cross and Skegness. (Slide kindly scanned by P. Wright) |
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| The Deltic
Broadsman railtour departs from Spalding on the now closed line to March - very late and the photographer resembling the proverbial "brass monkey" ! |
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| 55015
"Tulyar" approaches Grantham with the Deltic
Farewell Railtour to Edinburgh. Below it is seen passing Doncaster' (Lower photo : John Law) |
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55017 arriving at Newark Northgate in the early 1980s (Photo : John Law) |
