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The sound of the Deltic in full song takes me back to being 6 years old stood at my parents bedroom window waiting in anticipation of the Deltic pulling out of the station, could hear it three miles away. Loved watching and listening to them thundering past at 100mph. Modern trains are sterile now, all sound the same with no individuality.

The Deltic sounded mean just idling but on full chat..... wow! I used to lie awake in bed every week night for the express service from Doncaster to Hull to pass just after 10pm pulled by a Deltic. That sound just carried on the night air like no other.

Chunky beauty of unstoppable, uncompromising power, absolutely gorgeous. We won't see her like again 😣😢

😂 These old iron horses seem to last forever. Indestructable!

awesome. pieces of our railway heritage and history thank you for sharing.

I lived just behind bentley station and loved watching the diesels, how i miss it!!

Great rail therapy....I like IT!!!!....ALL THE BEST from ROMANIA!!!!

All my life I,ve loved my German Trains from kid on,but I have to say this British brute looks awesome however little I know about English Trains Wow awesome color scheme too Don’t worry Ladies and gents this German loves your cars older that is,love you Brits as well

I love all the birds singing and twittering to one another, so peaceful and idilic

Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks

Love these engines brilliant video you have done .

What a treat to see this procession.! Thanks for posting.

I wasn't old enough to appreciate "Steam" I grew up with these Dirty Rotten smelly Oil Burners and I loved them, I enjoyed reading Andy Houghtons anecdote takes a man blessed with a curtain amount of knowledge, to rescue the situation with out to much fuss, you can tell a man from Wigan, But! you can't tell him much…

More power, Love the BR 5 in this from the Class 55, 33, 47, 20 and the 37 💞 Great Vid

typical.. you wait ages for a train then 5 turn up at once

These DELTICS are great sounding machines. And I'm that the 33captain Bill was there too. Seen it a few times and I miss the 33 sounds in Portsmouth greatly. Nice little engines. Great video

Nice to hear some of coming back In service to help out.

Brilliant footage. Diesel overload for any Diesel fan. Good work. Thanks for posting ;-)

We used to see this Deltic regularly at our depot in Wimbledon having her wheels turned, we had one of the few wheel lathes that can do it when the wheels are STILL on the loco! My old dad probably did the wiring on her along with the others! Nice catch!👍🏻

Love it!! There is no replacement for displacement!!

the Deltic has always been my favorite train, nice video

first part started to drift off sound was so peacfull 😂😂 then the on coming storm great video

Nice!!! If only it was like this today. Still, these will be the good old days one day!

That's a lot of lovely hardware, right there.

Started my working life at English Electric Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, 1964 Technician Apprentice. Rows of Deltics and one GT 3, now all gone.

Great video. You was lucky to get them to stop there! Some lovely thash coming from Alycidon. I'd love to see that beast on the mainline. Tom.

'Alycidon' . Always gives me shivers. Respect.

Lucky getting that lot all at once ! great footage !

Fabulous to see those beasts together.

Nice, no noisy clanging signals in the background too!

Heavy metal thunder-it's music to my ears. Great British engineering at it's best!

Awesome!!! Love that sound...Greetings from Canada!

Used to watch Deltics running full tilt along the straight past Abbots Ripton. Great sight, fantastic sound!!

Nice sounds from the Deltic and good shot

Lovely. I saw this cavalcade pass Woking, but alas was at work so only glimpsed it out of a window.

I absolutely love it :) such beautiful machines, though it has to be said that little songbird sings way louder ;)

grazie di cuore per questo bellissimo video con un gruppo di stupendi locomotori ELETTRO DIESEL grazie veramente per bel lavoro un caro saluto giudeppe

A rare sight indeed ! Thumbs up

Deltic 9000s are my favorite locomotives. I'm holding an Identical model of D9002 in my hand even as I type.

Iconic footage of Class 55 deltic Locomotion ❤️❤️❤️

I used to dash across the Mytery (the Wavertree playing fields ) in Liverpool to the embankment to see the blue Deltic with a yellow arrow sweep by towards Lime Street Station. must have neeb about 1957 or 58.

Such a distinctive exhaust note

What a brilliant runner!!

The birds are chirping so peacefully and then! The ole chugger pull's up 😂🐦🕊️🐝🚂💨

1 word : Prfect thank u sharing that gem

🎶There's a little hotel called the Shady rest, At the Junction. 😉

Amazing video, beautiful british machinery

One of the most recent times anyone bothered to put the TOPS number on a train.

great catch that is for sure loves the sounds

pure joy THANKS....

Lovely video I need to see D9009

Superb 👍🏻

Excellent videos

Looking at the front coming at me I realized it looks a bit like a caterpillar, or the larval stage of Mothra... anyway, I love the Deltics... genius engine.

Why couldn’t I have been born 70 years earlier so I could drive these things.

This thing was a lot louder on the platform at Medstead & Four Marks... but the 37 was getting all the attention

I'm in my late seventies now, but can remember when I first saw a Deltic, I was probably about 13/14 years old, I was with a few mates at Northwick Park (before the hospital was built) in Kenton, Middlesex -( but now north London) which is on the west coast main line from Euston. The line has a steady incline up from London. The usual express trains were headed by Coronations, Royal Scots or Princess class steam locos, often double headed by a black five, and usually passed us at approximately 40-50mph, working hard, belching clouds of smoke. But on one particular day, no smoke but a heavy throb of a large diesel engine from a light blue Deltic with 12 coaches at a speed we all estimated at approx. 65-70 mph. I then thought "this is going to be the end of steam" This sight made quite an impression on me, and to this day when I see a Deltic (especially in blue) on KZfaq or in railway films/ Museums, my mind goes back to that sight I had nearly 60 plus years ago.

A Deltic on test at Vulcan foundry had the same governor/limiters fitted at both ends, not normal practice but they wanted to test her on the dynomometer...to cut a long story short all the engineers ran when they failed and she showed 3000rpm and over 7000hp causing smoke to rise from the windings.....it took one of the old hands who had taken a part time job of an evening cleaning the shop floor to take his broom to the fuel cut off valve to avert disaster. One Engineer in his haste ran through the personnel door in the hanger doors into what he thought was the night sky. It turned out the hanger door was half open and it was a black painted wall! He recovered a few months later after a long stay in Billinge Infirmary. 2-stroke diesels, perfect balance, shame the fuel consumption was so bad!

What a catch. Well done.

Nice vid. I filmed her last July on her first run up the ECML after returning to the mainline again, and she sounded awesome then too.

My favourite diesel loco

I like the almost silent horn @ 4:46 LOL !

Great shots.

Taken for granted as a kid, most lamented the loss of steam , me it still puts the hairs up on the back of my neck 🤪

Great stuff

Jolly good show.

I'm a tram 🚋 and I approve this video! Ding ding!

fantastic

I imagine Mirrlees Pioneer would be one of the first to have a Mirrlees Blackstone engine, made in Stamford

Great video

Great video, don't know how I missed this one? Liked, faved, subbed.

Yup, the very same, one stop up from Alton.

Super loco !

That's the most measly horn I've ever heard.

Awesome!!

Dat sound! O.O

This sighting is the equivalent to a jackpot!

why do 4 people dislike this vid, its bloody awesome.....power!

Impressive!

At least the first engine is in tune with the colours of nature...

Fantastic theres some proper pulling machinery there long live the deltics beats the crap they use these days !tug of war a deltic vs modern day

wow you are so lucky!

British design and built brilliant locomotives with style not like the locomotives we have now got now

There is just no other look or sound, iconic locos, I've watched this before, Great video. would there be a chance of using some of the audio to go with a model rail video I am planning please?

Now that's what I call a lash-up.

I think these locomotives were Dr Who's arch enemy.

Must be difficult to see where you're going , what is in the "Bonnet" area ?

Nice one. D9009 due at Didcot GWS over May zBank hols.

Awesome

Nice!

That's quite a sight.

nice bit of riveting there

Doodles of the Deltics by some poor youngster would often be mistaken for those of a motor-car, given the notched ends of the locos.

How dare you-you stole my future..

Love 55s, one of my favourite locomotives, the 37 isn't bad either,shame it wasn't runnning. The other two don't interest me that much however.

Is it me or does the Class 37 look depressed at being at the rear?

1:52 lmao it has a face like it had to leave all of it's loved ones behind forever=D

So is it 'towing' five dead engines or push/pull 4?

Nice one Jeff. Is that the South Western Alton Line? Barry