18 cylinders 36 pistons 3 crank shafts . Two stroke . A masterpiece of engineering.

Nothing sounds (or feels if you're close enough) like two Napier Deltic engines giving it what for.........takes me back to my childhood.

I can still vividly remember seeing, for the first time, the prototype DP1 Deltic pulling in to the south end of Peterborough (north) station 65 years ago in the summer of 1958 on a London bound working. As an avid 11 year old train spotter I was well aware of the coming of the diesel age, and knew that steam's days were numbered. The Deltic prototype was so unique as a design, using those twin Napier two stroke marine diesel engines that made a sound like nothing else. Standing next to her on that platform as it opened up when pulling away made a sound and vibration that sent shivers through this eleven year old, I thought it was the best engine noise I'd ever heard, an opinion, it would seem, that still holds true today!

5:16 u just caught Francis 😂😭

So lovely to see & hear a Deltic

The horn, hiss of the brakes being released and the opening up of a napier never fails to send a shiver down my spine 😍 a textbook deltic departure by the driver too, I hope those multiple start ups aren't a sign of anything, very similar to its first trip from KX earlier this year when they lost a unit and were trying to restart it at Grantham and she wasn't having any of it

Beautiful just beautiful. Thanks for sharing 👍

Great video of two gorgeous machines. 😊

That noise when they start up!

i love these unusual sounding locomotives good video as always 🥰

A great sound, a great look, a great loco!

A proper Loco With Red and Cream coaching stock what a sight great vid

hello l like the class 55 running on its second engine at 4:13 and you can hear the priming pump while its running on its second engine and I do like the second engine on the class 55 more at 4:13 than the Frist engine on the class 55

The old and the new departing /arriving !!

I did a rail tour of the US in May. The GE P42 locos they use there are the second loudest I've stood next to, but I think for sheer microphone overdriving capabilities the deltics still have the edge.

Got it at doncaster br jcn was 3 mins early and flew through sounding superb.

I caught it just south of York. Great video btw 😊

Majestic and almost magical.

Brings back memories of a bygone time great video.

Beautiful

Nice capture. Amazing to see the Royal Scots Grey at Kings Cross. I caught the 55022 at Brookmans Park

5:07 is that Francis?? 😂😂

Thanks for sharing this……the charge of the royal scots grey

Excellent mate Very Nice 👍👍

My grandad used drive Scots grey had uniform BR and wear a cap with peak sometimes uniform one old ones had BR lion on sliver buttons smart grandad polished shoes tie gave his badge 50 years on the railway badge had a track on it and blue and red. brought me home station caps from friends retired different lines on the caps red sliver and gold to station manager strips on his shirts and his little black bag with logs inn il used to watch the class 55s full speed through grden City on ecml early late 60s and 70s 😅noise was great coming towards you from bridge and old signals used lift up noise so knew something was coming down the main line

Catching her on the way back sunday hope to get her flying like hell through retford 😀😀😀😀 i vollunteer for the dps the noise is fantastic 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Excellent video.

Great video as always 👍

How much better does Kings Cross look now all 3 tunnels are in use!

Very enjoyable, but why the multiple starts? Seems rather odd. Nevertheless, the loco looked and sounded in great condition. A credit to the owners and English Electric.

Lovely footage. Thank u for sharing.😊

I could feel the ground shaking stood next to one at idle on the gwr.

D9000 immaculately turned out 😀👍 Have the Napiers just been overhauled? Very little white smoke.

Great footage, just subscribed 😀

I would have loved to see D9000 hand to tour over to 60007 but it’s not happening at my local ECML station even though I thought it was plus I have work.

Another cracking video well done great camera work as usual I am really enjoying your lovely videos and camera work keep your lovely camera work up I am really looking forward to seeing your next video I hope you get a nice video next time also when is your next video going to be on KZfaq bye for now Philip

The trailing diesel locomotive seems to stop in the tunnel while the Azuma is coming in on the left. Did the Deltic stop?

Re-painted and numbered since I last saw it, then 55022.... Is it still owned by the same guy?

Let's hope she makes it this time!!

Great video, just a minor point, pity it is displaying 1A16, when it is leaving the Cross, going north, surely a northbound head code would have been better.. but I bet this brings back many memories of those lucky enough to remember a line up of Deltics at KX, in the 60s to their end in 1981..note the Mk4 set arriving alongside the platform to the right, around 5:45 into the video. There is nothing the "V" of a Deltic exhaust.

Why do they always run a Class 47 at the rear? Backup in case of failure of the Deltic, or is it pushing to reduce load on the Deltic ?

Wow that was long

Great video. What camera did you use?

Hold on, was this today?

What's causing all the smoke? Is it doing a DPF regen ? ;-)

In my day as a secondman we always sounded the horn on departing whats going on with these silent departures.

hi brings back my teenage years. pity KC york rd is not there any more, D9000 well turned out, well done to the team responsible.,but why don't the clowns get the original one back on track ?

Does anyone know where deltic is staying until sundays return or whats the dep time off york plz?

11 coaches plus a `47` what does that weigh?

Why did it stop with the 47 still in the tunnel?

I wonder if they will, at some stage, change the law in the UK to allow the sale of anoraks in colours other than black.

RSG still pulling the crowds in then......

Not much of a trip though. 100 yards down the line and then stops in the tunnel 😄

That second engine doesnt sound like a deltic at all i will say!

Wonderful sights and sounds. We should be so proud of our wonderful railways, yet so much is dragged down into the pigs trough of political greed by strikes and disputes by those who don’t care about our railways and the service they could provide. Just their own egos.

I lived through the end of steam and all of the rest of the railways of Britain in my time. Times when these, in the main were not even glanced at. Nice restorations, but far to clean. Sadly you cannot recreate the romance and atmosphere of the past.