Deltic D9000 ‘Royal Scots Grey’ back at Kings Cross - 21st April 2023. 

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40 years on, Deltic magic is as strong as ever. Thanks and congratulations to all involved in their maintenance and operation.

Alycidon looks nice in it's new BR blue, but you can't beat Deltics in two-tone green, white window surrounds and working headcode blind, Royal Scots Grey looks fantastic, thanks for sharing!

I used to stand on the platform at Grantham as these things roared through. Whole place shook!

From 🇦🇺 takes me back to the 70's when I traveled north from KX. Lovely video cheers.

Many hours spent at Welwyn Garden City station as was from mid-60s trainspotting watching the Deltics go by. Saw the whole lot eventually. Always knew they were coming vibration and sound/rumble preceded them by a couple of mins.

LSL always do a stunning restoration on their locos, RSG looks the best I’ve ever seen her. Forget Charles, this is the real King! 👑

The crowd of admirers deserves this wonderful Deltic right.

Amazing Photos of D9000 at Kings Cross, feels weird but also cool at the same time to see it pull a Scotrail DBSO set

hi, great to see proper trains at Kings Cross again,! how its changed though,

Great coverage of this event . Thanks for posting .

I saw all but six of the Deltics in the late 70s. The ones I missed have all been thoughtfully preserved so day I can underline their numbers in my 1978 Ian Allen Combined Volume.

What a beautiful classic!

Hi.... Your photos of D9000 sitting at the platform end , waiting to depart are absolutely outstanding, and probably the best portrait of a Deltic i have ever seen......amazing.... Its worthy to win a competition. Thanx for sharing

I’ve caught up with royal Scot’s grey at atherstone on the ECS movement

The two-tone green was the best looking livery on these marvellous machines. Excellently well turned-out coaches too. Any chance of fitting TDM control equipment on D9000 for DVT push-pull working? 🤣

I remember catching a Deltic service in late 1974 -75 Selby to Newark Northgate cool loco 😛

What an absolute beauty she is! That Deltic looks brand new. Great video. Was it pulling a live passenger train, or just a test run please?

Saw all 23 Deltics there in the 70s . Brought a tear to my eye to see one there again. Wont ever see one shuffling between the stabling/fueling point 😢 thank you

Great video of a great loco. 👍

What a day.. I did a cab ride up from KGX to York on the 14.30 (there has been a fatality the previous night so the ECML was totally shagged)., never seen so many cranckers out and so good so the Deltic out and about.. 👍👍👍

Excellent footage 👍

Excellent video

Nicely shot! I had been planning to try and catch her at Newark but got called into a work meeting...at 2pm! Typical! Oh well, perhaps if there's a next time.

I was there.

Shame about the total mismatched rolling stock but she looks fantastic

So that's two deltics back on the main line

Will it be coming through Dawlish

I know they replaced much loved steam engines A1/2/3/4 but they are a stand out diesel totally British made and they always sounded so powerful. Travelled behind then in the 70,s. I know the coaches are a bit of a mis match but they are far far more Comfortable than the present day Azumas.

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have less doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

How do you find out when this sort of thing is happening in advance?

I swear this was in crewe ??? Has been for ages

Nice to see,but, oh that dirty old diesel smoke pollution! Has anyone compared the environmental damaging rates between steam, diesel and modern power types? Cheers

Nice powerfull beast at Kings Cross with the class 90 on the rear the 1980s scotrail stock! Nice sounds from the deltic as them engines are one of the most unique sounds of 1960s British engineering!!! 🤩😍🥰