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October 2011's Magnificent Seven weekend at Locomotion (the National Railway Museum annexe in Shildon, County Durham) brought together all seven surviving English Electric type fives, class 55's or, as they are best known, Deltics to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of their introduction on the East Coast Main Line.
The prototype is kept at Shildon. The six remaining production Deltics arrived on Thursday 6 and departed on Tuesday 11. This film has footage from all six days including the ticketed Friday evening photography session and five coupled Deltics arriving and departing with 55022/D9000 Royal Scots Grey providing the grunt on both occasions.
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Excellent film. The two tone green is the only colour for me!
Thank you very much glad you enjoyed it. I agree about the livery (see below)- the Deltics need something to break up their impressive but rather monolthic profile. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
Magnificent 7, magnificent video. Brought back happy memories. I was privileged to see most of them as they were built and released on their way to Doncaster as they passed my signal box on Sheffield Victoria Station. Best diesels yet. Thank you.
I hadn't even seen a Deltic until I first came to Durham which would have been in 1980. The only time I ever rode behind one in service was from Durham to... wherever we changed trains on the way back- '011 Royal Northumberland Fusileers IIRC. I moved up to Durham in '81 and I saw Deltics for only their last six months or so in capital stock when they had been relegated by the 125s to secondary services and mail trains but they still made quite an impression. I haunted Locomotion during this event.
Wonderful to see this footage. A Deltic looks magnificent from any angle! Thanks for posting.
Superb film,why people gush over the locomotives of today is beggars belief when we had locos like the Deltic which are iconic and they should never be allowed to die,as with all British designed and built locomotives which had style and panache.
Glad you enjoyed the film. I think one can appreciate the advances in design and technology that go into modern traction (though I wonder why it was necessary to make the Class 70 quite so exquisitely hideous) while still revelling in past glories. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
Fantastic sound of the Napier engines, takes me back to the late 1960's watching the Yorkshire Pullman arrive in the evening at Leeds City station from London or light engine at Neville Hill depot for refueling and stabling until the next run to London. Great Memories. thanks for posting.
I never saw a Deltic until I came to the North East and only moved here in time to see their last six months in service long after they were demoted to secondary services and a couple had already been scrapped. They made an immediate and indelible impression on me though especially since I lived in Durham where you could see the ECML all the way from the station to the bottom of Redhills cutting. It was uphill from the station and the Deltics especially like you to know they were making an effort. Filming the start at the end of the film (start seems too tame a word- take off?) brought back a lot of memories.
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Great engines.Saw them all at Kings Cross in the 60's. Happy memories
this brings back so many memories..loved going to kings cross seeing a deltic coming in brilliant. ...great video..
Thank you. As noted below I didn't see much of the Deltics in service but they made quite an impression.
I bet it would've looked even better leaving (accelerating away).
Me too , Used to skip school so I could go and watch these arriving and stand on the bridge so I could be engulfed in the clag Heaven .
Excellent video. One gets to see these beauties but also to hear those great Napier Deltic engines. What a treat.
Thank you. That chorus of Napiers went on for about ten minutes and I wonder sometimes if I should post the unedited version. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
Equal to seeing a whole squadron of Supermarine Spitfires, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared
WOW! What a line up!
Indeed. Never was an event more aptly titled.
I was lucky enough to see these beasts and there steam counterparts in the early sixties and I am glad these have survived but my favourites are still the magnificent A4's,luckily we can still see both.Nice video again.Just out of interest was there much difference in attendances between the magnificent 7 and the Mallard tribute.
With you there. I didn't see steam in regular service and I'm not nostalgic about it at all but I am glad that many kettles have been preserved and some classes even brought back from extinction now. The Great Goodbye event at Locomotion (the last time all the A4s were together) had similar attendance figures to the events in York- about 20,000 a day on average IIRC and it went on for over a week. Certainly far more than the Magnificent Seven which was basically a weekend.
What a sight to see, they may belch out shit. but they were beautiful to us old ones
Thank you.
Exactly the same thing can be said about steam but wouldn't it be a shame if they didn't run?
I wish we had these in my country Ghana.This Deltic is surely a powerful machine that belches out flames when under utilized. It has a max speed limit of 100mph which means it can do more .Its a beautiful Loco and i hope they are retrofitted to meet modern standards.We need a few to be maintained and stored though.
There are six preserved from a total of only 22 built plus the prototype. That's not bad going especially considering how many classes there are that, especially in steam days, might have numbered in the hundreds where no example is preserved.
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God I love deltics
They're just beautiful!
Sorry not to have noted your message until now. Steam enthusiasts talk of "their" locomotives having personality and panache and I can sort of see what they mean. To my mind though the Deltics have personality in spades and I hope some of it comes across in this video.
Excellent, stunning video :-)
Superb shots of superb locos !
Thank you. I often wish I'd had a video camera when I lived in Durham with a view of the main line. The practice would have made me a much better cameraman and I'd have hours of footage of loco-hauled expresses in the last years of Corporate Blue including Deltics in their last six months, 40s, Peaks, HST all thrashing their way up the hill. No O-levels but you've got to get your priorities right.
A magnificent movie. Great to see this, a really different look at the event, beautifully filmed.
Thank you very much- I hope it captured some of the atmosphere there. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
@sumpy1022 Thank you. I love the Deltics and it was quite something to see all of the survivors together. I hope this gives some impression of the weekend.
amazing video much appreciated -very special
Thank you. It was a fine even that stirred a lot of memories for me and I hope the film captured that.
Just pure class !!!! Thanks for posting .""power to the deltics"
Glad you like. I moved to Durham in 1981 and could see the ECML between the station and Redhills cutting. The Deltics were in the last few months of their working lives but I became an instant fan and have fond memories of their spectacular starts as they climbed the hill going south. I'm sure the same may be said of whoever was at the controls of 22 at the end of the film- worth getting out early for.
I am fairly sure it was a Deltic that I watched approaching the platform at Boston in either 1969 or 1970. My (Lincoln) school's London day trip was diverted because Newark Crossing Junction was closed due to a dispute. The train did the unheard of journey from Lincoln St Mark's to Lincoln Central, by starting up the line to Market Rasen and then reversing. Then it went out on the Sleaford line, to Boston, and there we changed for the East Lincolnshire Main Line. The Deltic-hauled train was coming from Grimsby via Louth. At the time I didn't realize that the government was going to vandalize that line. Converting the first few miles to a road has blocked plans to re-open it.
It's quite possible and the Deltics do make an impression. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
great shooting, loved the time lapse! Dave
Thank you. I wasn't sure whether to include the time-lapse or not but I liked it and the first makes a nice transition into the night shoot. I tried several panning shots but only one came off.
I'm so glad you chose to include that time-lapse.
Thank you so much for that blast from the past. Made my day!
Glad you enjoyed it. Being there to film the last shot in particular brought back memories for me. Sorry to have missed your message until now.
Superb
The prototype looks awesome :)
Doesn't she? I've said elsewhere that Corporate Blue made the Class 55s look rather slab sided while two-tone green broke up the outline a bit and suited them. The prototype's livery is something else again though. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
Fantastic !
Glad you enjoyed it.
FABULOUS footage!
19 looks like she needed a good polishing
Thank you- it was a fabulous event and I hope this gives some impression of it. 19 would probably looked better for wash but those two-stroke do throw a lot of oil around. I'm just pleased they're getting looked after.
behold the true power of internal combustion
Real Locomotives !!!
I'll second that.
DP1 for the win!
Someone bequeathed I think four Deltic engines on the condition that some are used to return DP1 to working order. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
what were the specs on these locos? weight, horsepower, tractive effort , etc...?
When the prototype (a.k.a. DP1) took to the rails whe was the most powerful single unit Diesel locomotive in the world. The engines were actually derated so she had 3,100hp though I think that was increased to 3,300 fairly quickly. Weight was just over 100 tons. The production loco's weigh just under 100 tons with the same power- remarkable when you compare it to a Class 66 with ostensibly the same power and a weight of over 130 tons though that, lower gearing and other traction control systems surely gives them a far greater tractive effort.
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Haha, you got me. 9.52 camera on the fence.
How d'you do? Wasn't it great to see so many people there? I'm sure it wasn't just the rail enthusiast crowd and reluctant parents dragged along. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
once I went to a railway with one steam engine and four diesels and one of them was a green deltic I think it was d9015
Was that at Barrow Hill? Tulyar is getting restored there at the moment.
no it was strathspey I think
Nice video, shame the black pages of info went too quickly to read. Maybe should have been given longer pause so people could at least read the description of what was happening. 37's still my personal favourite.
Glad you liked. When I posted this you could go through your videos and add pauses which I did to hold the titles keeping the video a minute or so shorter than it would have been. That saved a significant amount of time when uploading (not to mention rendering it in the first place) but of course TH-cam has removed that feature, now even the videos which did pause no longer do so and I look like an idiot. It's not so quick you can't hit the space bar and the only way I could change it would be to rerender and upload a new version. Well nuts to that but perhaps I should add a note to the description.
I like 37s. I recall seeing only one in my life before coming to Durham where I could see one every ten minutes if I looked out of the back window.
Odds bodkins- now you can't add annotations either. So TH-cam has removed the pauses that held the captions on screen long enough to read them and the feature that would let me warn viewers that now they will have to pause the video for themselves to read the captions because they (TH-cam) has removed the pauses... I presume, if I could be bothered to ask, that these are improvements.
6:21 Ian Lewis :D
The Deltics although ugly were extremely powerful and wonderful workhorses. The green livery with white cab surrounds suited them best.
Ugly seems harsh but they did look kind of slab sided in Corporate blue- I agree the two-tone green suited them very well. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
hope they re-engine Tulyar one day
They nearly do 25mph sometimes
It's good to see main line loco's at Locomotion but there do always appear a bit hobbled by the lack of a couple of miles of straight line to get the whelly on. I think whoever was driving Royal Scots Grey at the end deliberately put on a show which I for one appreciated. Shame there weren't a few more people about. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared.
There are actually only 6 remaining.
There are indeed six Class 55s in preservation (remarkable when you consider there were only ever 22) plus the prototype. The event itself was (very aptly I thought) called the Magnificent Seven. Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared
18:23
Oh yes- someone was enjoying himself. Did you hear the comment, "That was a steam train wasn't it?" under the title? Sorry it took so long for your comment to come up- I'd forgotten that, after some abusive posts, I'd set it up so I had to approve comments before they appeared
Many thanks- though honestly, I think where Deltics are involved if you can point the camera straight you'll have something worth watching.
Of course I could be biased.
"Of course I could be biased." You and a lot of others, myself included.
Why does that one have to go off by road? You'd think it would be more expensive than to just send it on its own wheels. To say nothing of it being just damn unnatural.
I guess Tulyar is just not deemed rail-worthy for some reason. If you look through the windows as she's being turned you'll see she hasn't any engines and, as far as I'm aware, hasn't run for years. It could be dragged of course but if the suspension, brakes and bearings haven't had the attention they need something could break or seize.
Someone at Locomotion told me the hauliers managed to knock a wall over as they were manoeuvring her away from the Museum.
Well, that makes sense. Perhaps she had just been used as a static display, all prettied-up but not mechanically sound.
Locos have to be brought up to a certain standard in order for them to be even towed on the railways. If they have not been brought up to that standard then they have to be taken by road.
how can you get worked up about a box on wheels
Just lucky I guess.
The same way as some get worked up about cars
Exactly- you like them or you don't.
I did remove a comment here if anyone's wondering. Debate, argument and disagreement are one thing (wouldn't it be dull if everyone was the same?) but name-calling and abuse are another and I don't care which side you think you're on. YouKnowWho: I would agree that Deltics are epic but would rather argue the case or agree to differ and a reply like yours isn't going to win anyone over.
yes i did seen them being built they had their teething problems and a maine engine had is problems too
You and Peter Bustin should give a Deltic a hug whilst on full throb. I guarantee you will fall in love ;-)