I remember going to the National railway museum in 2006 as a boy aged 8 and a half and the last thing I know was seeing the prototype deltic and deltic 2 together in the museum
I would love to think that more of this journey was filmed than actually used in this clip, and the unused parts are lying in a can in a storeroom somewhere - waiting to be discovered. An early 1960s continuous cab ride out of Kings Cross and through north London would be the most nostalgic film ever.
Fantastic. The main line north out of York ran past our school playground, so we saw the great transition from steam to diesel. It was exciting enough seeing the new Type 3 (Class37) locos, but the Deltics in their green and white livery had a BIG effect on a small boy! Remember being very disappointed that a steam loco was pulling the train I was on to Glasgow, rather than a Class 37! How times have changed!
Classic Prototype, great film, cab ride, nice scenery, even points and Crossings, along with other traffic. Think how good the Natural sound would have been, instead of the horrid music.
I started at the cross on the footplate 1970 and have been on and driven all the Deltics at one time or another. Certainly fun machines but the noise in the engine room was unbelievable we were issued a box a little larger than a match box with cotton wool in it to stick in ours ears!! No health and safety then. Also when sitting in gasworks tunnel waiting to set back onto a train choking on the fumes was not fun.
Forgot to say that there are some nice ex-LNER pacifics coming the other way! Deltic must've created a real stir entering a station in the mid to late 1950s. I've got the NRM Bachmann model, clean and weathered. It's superb. Highly recommended. The best model Bachmann's ever done in my opinion.
@tpvalley Hello, at 24 seconds into the video the drivers hand is on the train brake handle, the direct loco brake handle is just above his sleeve to the left of the video and the power handle is below his hand.
A number of things really stand out..........the difficulty of sighting signals with so many steam locos moving about; the route knowledge that drivers had to have with semaphore signals; the photographers inability to give us a decent look at the bloody controls being used. And the brief look I got at that panel indicated that it was very similar to some English Electric electric locos that we had here in Victoria, Australia.
I remember my nan telling me about 'The Deltic' visiting Doncaster Station and looking like something from the future. Incidentally, the Deltics didn't last as long in service as the Gresley A4 it replaced.
Love how the music is played on one of those old portable keyboards that yamaha, casio and the like used to make. I know cos I used to sell them when I was younger :D
Fascinating, and not least for the number of Class7/8 freights lumbering along the UP Main and not the SLOW where four tracks existed, marking just how sparse the passenger service was by today's standards. Shame there were no shots 90 mph north of Hitchin and up Stoke Bank. Cracking stuff though.
Magic footage but it's a pity about the cheap library jazz music - I'd have rather had the Deltic engines all the way even if it was dubbed. I suppose the lesbian cause gets the PC vote so no lottery or Government money for this sort of thing that us male railway anoraks prefer!
