Ten years since the last Deltic-hauled service train

[Sun Chariot]

Yes, it's true

I happened to be browsing t'interweb and was getting all nostalgic about the days when D9000 "Royal Scots Grey" was rostered onto the 1S87 Ramsgate-Edinburgh service.

I have numerous shots of the loco on this service, taken around SouthEast division and Western main lines.

But I hadn't realised it's been ten years since this ceased - I believe the last run by D9000 was on 10th September 1999.

Is it too late to organise an anniversary repeat performance by the old girl?

 

[generalvegitable]

then a repeat performance of this would nullify the claim to the 10 years of no service trains

 

[theblackwatch]

55019 did a timetabled service (listed in the all line timetable) from Whitby last year.

 

[37401]

would be nice to see Deltics make a comeback

 

[generalvegitable]

yeah it would be nice, it would also be nice for British built locos to prowl our lines instead of the foreign rubbish that currently [insert synonym for "prowls" here] our lines

 

[berwickspotter]

well said sir could not have put it better my self

 

[mumrar]

[insert synonym for "prowls" here]

Would maraud be sufficient a word, I know it doesn't derive from prowl

 

[Daimler]

55022 is fully mainline certified and everything isn't it?

I ask because it doesn't seem to do much actual hauling of trains! I'd love to see it (indeed, I went across to St. Albans on Thursday to see it come through on its way back from Eastleigh. It was running 25 minutes early, I got there 22 minutes early :cry: ) on a train - or even go on it!

It'd be great for doing the sort of stuff 86259 does - you know, operating the non-steam hauled sections of steam charters - I don't know, 60007 one way, 55022 the other, Kings Cross to York.

Sounds good to me!

 

[andrewmay]

Bloody reliable foreign stuff for the most part though.

 

[87015]

55019 did a timetabled service (listed in the all line timetable) from Whitby last year.

That doesn't count! It at least needs a * after the service train quote

 

[djw1981]

I hadn't realise that they ahd remained in service for so long.

What was the route of teh Ramsgate-Edinburgh?

 

[Waverley125]

I'd take a guesss at Kent main line, round to Clapham junction, willesden junction, WCML to Carstairs & Edinburgh. though i stand to be corrected on that.

 

[yorkie]

Although I'm pretty sure an 86 would have been used north from Birmingham, as generally happened in the days of XC services before these awful DMU contraptions we're stuck with now.

 

[metrocammel]

I hadn't realise that they ahd remained in service for so long.

What was the route of teh Ramsgate-Edinburgh?

They didn't. Deltics were withdrawn in January 1982. D9000 just made a 'return' to timetabled services for a brief period in the late 1990s. Up until the Virgin services, I'm not aware of any 'timetabled' Deltic turns, however, I'm sure Mr. Blackwatch will

 

[GNERman]

55022 is fully mainline certified and everything isn't it?

I ask because it doesn't seem to do much actual hauling of trains! I'd love to see it (indeed, I went across to St. Albans on Thursday to see it come through on its way back from Eastleigh. It was running 25 minutes early, I got there 22 minutes early :cry: ) on a train - or even go on it!

It'd be great for doing the sort of stuff 86259 does - you know, operating the non-steam hauled sections of steam charters - I don't know, 60007 one way, 55022 the other, Kings Cross to York.

Sounds good to me!

Is it down to one engine?

 

[tbtc]

I thought it was just south of Birmingham that the Deltic operated?

 

[caughtonatrain]

Hi

I see the Deltics are to feature in an upcoming TV programme on National Geographic channel. I don't have pay-tv so can't watch this but would be interested in what people have to say. Apparently Rimmer from Red Dwarf is going to drive a Deltic as part of "Britain's Greatest Machines" ....

http://www.natgeochannel.co.uk/programmes/britains-greatest-machines