Back in the late 70s and very early 80s I would often be at Kings Cross - the sight and the sound of a row of 55’s - wow, unforgettable. But also mixed with the lovely sounds of Paxman Valentas too. What an audio symphony that was. Kind of smoky place I seem to recall 😁

AWESOME NAPIER HELLFIRE!!! thank you. My old dad used to work for English Electirc and was one of the wiremen on the prototype Deltic 1 and many of the production locos!!

Epic things. Nimbus, York, late 1970s. First time I saw one. Fabulous.

Oh those were the good days & life was more simple then! Great work 🇬🇧👏

8.00m " your train is going to suffer a slight delay" I was sad to see Ballymoss being cut up, she was my elusive Celtic. Never did get to see her in person. Good clips. Great sound. Thanks for sharing.

Magnificent! Say no more. 🖤

Great footage! I have 2 memories from my childhood! When I was very young! 1 was you could tell when a Deltic came into Leeds station - the floor used to vibrate and that unique sound! I can remember it vividly! And 2) A memory and a regret - I used to live next door to an engineer who worked at Holbeck shed and one Saturday when the bosses were not in me and my dad were taken down to the shed and given a walkthrough of a Deltic and a Class 40 cab to cab! I only remember I hated the noise! Too young to appreciate how lucky I was to be able to do this! To this day I wonder which one I got to see from the inside!? But will never know! As it was before 1977 (I think 1975) so I believe all were still running?

that is a fantastic footage it brings back memories of the deltics that rule the east coast mainline

Amazing to think deltics were doing this day in day out before i was born and i am 51 great to know that six survive , i saw them in there last three years of service at doncaster, brass rubbing the name plates yes did that too , deltics and woodhead electrics taken out of service round about the same time, miss them both, meld was my favourit , great video realy enjoyed it thanks

Don't worry about the picture quality - it's the sound that is so awesome!

You know you're getting old when you get nostalgic about British Rail.

It's still fabulous footage and it's captured those beauties for eternity!

Atmospheric and brilliant

the greatest diesel locomotive ever built in the history of the world ,and will never be surpassed

Some wonderful footage there, very nostalgic. Beautiful machines, expertly maintained by Yorkshiremen! Thanks for sharing this.

Ah! That Deltic Wail. Brings back so many memories. You could tell if there was a Deltic running in Kings X long before you entered the station. That noise has been a life companion, first as a spotter in Kings X, Then I had a girlfriend in Knebworth within earshot of the ECML and would hear them roaring past in the night. After that in the early 80's after they had been displaced onto semi fasts by the HST's I would often ride behind one up to Newark returning to base in at various RAF stations after weekend leave.I also had many years listening to Deltic engine noise at sea on Ton class minesweepers. Pure nostalgia. Thanks for posting.

This is how I remember the Deltics, in their final years before the space-age HSTs took over. Although at the time I viewed the HSTs as the future and Deltics as recycled frieght locos, I now see how so many people miss them as in turn our miss ourValenta powered journey shrinkers. It was a strange sight going out on training trips with HST sets that hadn't even seen fare paying passengers and hadn't even had the protective plastic pulled off the carpet and now seeing htem shipped off for scrap and- worse- being sent to hobly gobly land as second class traction. Now to be replaced by trains from Japan that have torture devices for seats.

Fantastic stuff! That shot of The Durham Light Infantry blasting out of Gasworks Tunnel is spine tingling. Many thanks for posting.

Please don't apologise for the quality, we are all just thankful you put this up for us to see! The last two machines that inspired me were the Concorde, and the Deltic

Don't apologise, you captured some brilliant footage there. It's great to see them in action at their best in the last couple of their lives too. A big thank you for sharing this too.

And now the end is near for their replacements too. Although we haven't had proper HST sound for a few years, I'll still miss them trundling up and down the ECML. Will anyone care about the next gen?

Brings back so many memories. As Murray Walker once said, the finest loco's British Rail ever owned.I was lucky enough to see all 22, albeit 1 and 20 were in the plant when I saw them.

Great footage. Brings back good memories. What a waste though, like most of the other scrapped diesels. They were built to last and, more importantly, maintained to a very high level by BREL and the depots. Proof is the fact that many locos are still running now, 60 odd years after manufacture.

Remember traveling from Kings X to Newcastle behind a few of these beasts

Thanks. Brilliant tribute collection.

Wonderful footage, many thanks!

MAGNIFICENT! 😍

What brilliant memories!

thats a great shot of tutyar speeding through blasting her horn as an ic125 speeds past

I was there in 1980 im my parker coat taking the nameplate cayon etching too , ha, best times ever

00.53 is how they should be remembered.

awesome. Cheers very much! 1:06 to 1:50 mins # 17 and then # 22 both going south at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Today,would kids be waiting at a railway station to see a loco power up? The CTC was pretty impressive .My Dad controlled a lot smaller one in New Zealand in the 1960's.

ooooohhhh the power and the glory

Great stuff! :) The railtours at the beginning are in 1981 - not sure about the rest of it.

Oh ye get it digitised have you got more deltic footage and can we have some more please

Brilliant 👍🏻

Wow Selby station and swing bridge Do you have any more footage of Selby to York line Great vid thanks for posting

Some great clips there mate.

I've noticed 6 windows on each side of these locomotives, not including drivers. Would this be for passengers to actually travel in the loco units?

Cripes, a 55 with the boiler still working, brave lad them is.

WOW 😳

Hi - my name is Nic Greene I'm a volunteer at the Watercress Line. I'm making a short promo video for our Diesel Gala this year. As part of the line up we'll be having D9002 and I wonder if I could use a short clip,10-15 second from your 'Deltic 1980' as the opening shot. Attribution will, of course, be made to any clips used. Many thanks - Nic Greene ( Geralldus on KZfaq )

Had this video,was expensive £22 for 30 min

Should never have scrapped em

I suppose the purpose of the video was to show the locos, but I always feel short-changed when the shot stops as soon as the engine has gone past. I want to see the train, not just the engine.

STEAM TRAIN LOLZ