Deltic 55009 starts up at Barrow Hill 25-08-08

Alycidon starts up at Barrow Hill prior to working some shuttle services

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• deltic
• trains
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• 55
• barrow
• hill

[colinraycyrus68]

ill like to have seen the dps do her in br blue with the white windows ,,,theres none done this away i cant understand why,,,we have 3 in green and 3 in blue but the blue ones are all standed.

[FishAndFingerPie69]

Lovely two-tone green livery. Remember it well from the early-mid 60s. Hope you told that ill-mannered guy to get out of your way. There's always one.

[donnactrc]

Another correction-it is three banks of 6 cylinders each with 2 pistons-so 18 cylinders with 36 pistons for each engine.

[jbrramsey]

Minor correction; 18 cylinders per engine, (6 banks of three). So 36 cylinders, double acting, that's 72 pistons! just writing it down is awesome. I remember them being phased out in the early '80s, being allowed up to 110mph to fit in with the new HSTs ; the fastest conventional loco hauled trains in the world, for a while.

[svengalicat]

Great sound, but, I seem to remember, as another comment mentioned the real voom-voom fluttering between the engines, God it was an awesome loco, I was on the footplate as a secondman during the late 70s at Haymarket, and we relieved a crew in Fife and brought the train back to edinburgh, the cab seemed so big! compared to the more usual 37s or 40s/45s Brush that we used more often, i had to shut down the heating boiler, between the engines, when crossing the Forth Bridge at idle, Rather loud!

[Gartfield112]

I loved the deltics too and spent many a schoolday ! bunking off so I could go and see them arriveand depart from Kings Cross station.One nice driver let me see inside the cab with the engine running.- never forgot that ! Remember going on one up to Kings Lynn I think but a bit too young then (only 5) to appreciate them. Thanks for bringing back those memories

[cnocnall]

@630BAN its equiped with 2 napier deltic 16 cylinder 2 stroke engines,giving a combined total of 3300 hp.

[wattass7]

@cageordie thats right i live in allerdene and at night late on they used to bellow and growl past and honestly you could here it for a good 5 to 10 mins after it had sailed by i used to nod of to sleep to the song of the deltic, much missed now of coarse , theres nothing that can compare to a deltic song , i thought they would go on forever, i saw royal scots grey the outher week down on the ecml at lamesly and they sound a lot silenter than what they did, ahh the 70s

[6380BAN]

This locomotive are equiped with 2 engines? This engine are cycle 2T or 4T? Thanks.

[MickeyLove01]

I've walked through one of these when it's been idling