So good to see these old girls on heritage service but so hard to catch them with both engines running nowadays. I appreciate it cuts down engine wear just running one unit alternately but boy do they sound good with both engines at full chat!
@MrStapletonRoad4 жыл бұрын
Really pleased that you liked the clips.
@MrStapletonRoad14 жыл бұрын
I love the smell of Napier in the morning...
@ColinH19734 жыл бұрын
Smells like victory!!
@andyharman30227 жыл бұрын
That run up Goodrington Bank is the angriest I've heard Deltics run. Glorious!
@UKRailsandMore3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage sir, first model train as a kid was a delicious in this livery, amazing stuff and what a sound, music to the ears! All the best, Paul
@johntrevena42805 жыл бұрын
I spose thats the tunnel fumigated for another year!! good ol two stroke deltics.. drinks gallons to the mile and turns diesel into smoke n noise!!
@SpoonyMcSpoonface2 жыл бұрын
I attended that event and well remember the coaches getting clagged out passing through Greenaway tunnel.
@railandmodel13 жыл бұрын
I've a photo in one of my books, with one of the said napier beasts on a freight train of vans back in the 60's. Great footage. Nice one.
@MarioStahl19834 жыл бұрын
"It's just so wrong" nails it! 😂 Let's put it this way: In the first ten years after the war Bitain was practically bankrupt and heavily dependent on foreign loans. Getting the old steam trains off the tracks, modernizing the tracks (concrete sleepers instead of wood and continuous welded rail instead of the old clickety-clack), reibuilding and renovating stations and so on... All that was a huge and expensive effort for war torn Britain. They simply couldn't afford to electrify. So they went with diesel locomotives. The first post war diesels were trash. But things were getting better and better and the Deltics were clearly a triumph. By the early 1960s the Deltics were introduced and they were an immediate success. For instance: Travel times between London and Edinburgh were cut by 90 minutes (!!). The problem was: They should have stopped there and focused on electrification!! Instead British Rail was almost "dieselized to death".
@kevinwalton45383 жыл бұрын
We still are!!
@MarioStahl19833 жыл бұрын
@@kevinwalton4538 I know. It's really frustrating how slow progress is made in that field (electrification).
@joesophie903 жыл бұрын
What was the first post war diesel engine by the way?
@MarioStahl19833 жыл бұрын
@@joesophie90 You can look that up here: Wikipedia has several lists for that which have proven to be accurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Rail_diesel_locomotives en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Rail_modern_traction_locomotive_classes#Diesel_locomotives
@wattass713 жыл бұрын
superb vid of this countrys best engines, totally agree with you a deltic looks out of place pulling freight, but still just glad to see them on the line today, cant wait till next year to capture 22 again on the ecml railtours, RSG has done an outstanding job this year on railtours especially the last one on the 4th dec, when most trains cancelled rsg makes it from preston to edinburgh with no fuss then takes in a dundee mini tour, remarkeble for a 50 year old diesel, thank you
@michaelcampin14644 жыл бұрын
Something special about all 24 deltics including DP1 and DP1.
@stevemumbling77202 жыл бұрын
Smokey old buggers those Deltics.
@lordofbore8 жыл бұрын
Fantastic !!! What a sound !!!! Thanks for sharing
@Asl6uk5 жыл бұрын
The Deltic engines sound amazing but the train needs a proper horn for goodness sake!
@RWBHere4 жыл бұрын
Those Deltic engines are loud. The horns are almost superfluous. 😉
@terrier_productions4 жыл бұрын
PROPER HORN?! Don’t make me laugh.. the Deltic’s horn is awesome
@shahedmc96564 жыл бұрын
You caught the sound quite well.
@MrStapletonRoad4 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@gedungisphoopnuchle91212 жыл бұрын
Such a mighty machine...endowed with a weak ass ghetto horn!!!!!
@exb.r.buckeyeman8453 жыл бұрын
That’s 3300 hp of 2 stroke engine for you.
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
Nonsense. A diesel's natural home is at the head of a freight train. No passengers to complain about the noise (or that it's a roar rather than chuff-chuff) or smoke (or that it doesn't smell of coal), plenty of weight needing to be dragged giving them an excuse to sit at notch 8 for minutes on end even on a heavily speed restricted line... ;) Of course they can't get up to max speed, but they can still hit a good fraction of it on the mainline (heritage lines, you're hamstrung even with passengers), and particularly with mail trains. They were designed, built, and originally used as general purpose workhorses anyway, they were never just passenger only. And the last one to run in non-heritage paying service was helping cover a railfreight traction crisis a few years ago...
@MrStapletonRoad6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your forthright views, hope you enjoyed the clip.
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
It's all in jest, mate :) (And yes)
@WAYNE197710013 жыл бұрын
@MrStapletonRoad I agree on that one, you can't beat that Deltic engine sound.
@davemcalone66686 жыл бұрын
Superb action, agree totally with thehoff1982
@scopex27494 жыл бұрын
Good old Deltic.......who said it was goodbye to smoke and fumes when steam went 😂😂😂😂NOOOOOO lets invent a 100MPH SMOKE GENERATOR that sounds AWESOME! BTW the fans leaning out of the windows ARE NOT doing Nazi salutes as some think. Its called ‘FLAILING’ it is our appreciation of things on rails 😃 its nothing more than a wave of YAAAYY BRILLIANT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
@MrStapletonRoad4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your contribution KK
@MrStapletonRoad14 жыл бұрын
@Southernrailwaysfan Glad you liked it, I am quite new to You Tube but I am getting to know lots of the regulars I also have a Flickr channel. There are lots of like minded people on that site also. Cheers Eddie
@duckfan000013 жыл бұрын
These diesel galas of the 90’s seemed such a success and they must have made money from them so why don’t they have them anymore? It is a same and would be great to see more diesel action on the line.
@joesophie903 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what the lettering/numbers represent on the nose?
@baggyaureol13 жыл бұрын
@MrStapletonRoad There is a Press Release on the Royal Scots Grey website, which contains more information =]
@RPKGameVids6 жыл бұрын
Great stuff!
@brushtraction13 жыл бұрын
saw a deltic at nevile hill once and then saw a scrap train hauling some old barrier coaches some deltic remains a scrap class 60 a class 56x3 a barrier coach some fire damaged mk3s another barrier coach and a class 37 all hauled by a class 67 going to the scrappers all of this was coming from healy mills by the looks of things
@TheDuke-vb9cq5 жыл бұрын
And they say steam locos create pollution.......
@MrStapletonRoad13 жыл бұрын
@baggyaureol Many thanks...I can feel a trip to the North East coming up soon.
@billsmith3054 жыл бұрын
Yes the squeaky horn is YUK, million pound machine and little car horn?
@thehoff198213 жыл бұрын
wow! gordon highlander without the purple paint and stupid headlights! - epic!
@tiger1755 жыл бұрын
As long as it's running.
@tiger1755 жыл бұрын
Was the gradient pulling away 1:43?
@terrelmchenry95243 жыл бұрын
AWESOME IN P.T BOATS.
@Southernrailwaysfan14 жыл бұрын
Awesome video mate :)
@arthurreeder24744 жыл бұрын
This sounds ridiculous, but having travelled many times behind a Deltic from Kings Cross and seen them on preserved lines...i had not twigged the reason for the smoke was that the Deltic was a 2-stroke engine!!!! All is now explained, but who had the job of tipping the oil into it??
@robf935 жыл бұрын
Take that mother nature!
@Videogame-Matt6 жыл бұрын
To the person that put a deltic on freight duty: IF I FIND YOU I WILL MURDER YOU. YOU NEVER PUT SUCH A GOOD ENGINE ON A FREIGHT TRAIN
@MrStapletonRoad6 жыл бұрын
A bit harsh but fair point i guess. You wouldn't tow a caravan with a Ferrari.....
@FockeWolf1006 жыл бұрын
Considering BR put A4s on freight trains.. no engine is above freight duty.
@ashbridgeindustries3806 жыл бұрын
But just imagining the likes of Mallard, Kestrel and Bittern on freight duty... oh, it's unbearable.
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
Biiiiiit scary there, Matt. You might wanna try decaf tomorrow. In any case, BR used them for all different purposes anyway. It was one of the revolutionary things about diesels as far as they were concerned... you didn't need to build hundreds of different classes of steam loco too cover all kinds of finely graded purposes (and each only being available for a certain limited range of uses) any more. Just build a bunch of Deltic class diesels and you have something that's just as happy pulling a short passenger service at 90mph and part throttle as grinding up a steep grade, unbanked, employing full throttle on both engines at 20-some mph, pulling a 30-car freight consist. Any loco could do any job. They could even shunt if absolutely necessary, though it was better in that one specific case to use a more compact engine geared for lots of stopping and starting at marshalling yard speeds...
@MrStapletonRoad13 жыл бұрын
@theamateurbasher For real ? let me know some details if you get them. Cheers Eddie
@exb.r.buckeyeman8453 жыл бұрын
My Ariel Arrow smoked more than that in the 60s.
@mr.theengie90106 жыл бұрын
What’s wrong with a good thrash everyonce in a while?
@MrStapletonRoad6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely nothing at all.....
@saintmartins67294 жыл бұрын
Deltics had 2 engines. That first one was a baby Deltic.
@46harry3 жыл бұрын
No, there isn't any of them left
@tpvalley10 жыл бұрын
the last train...almost 1000bhp per coach!
@holmesjunction6 жыл бұрын
Try counting the exhausts. Only 500 hp per coach (both running on one engine)!
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but if it had been allowed to get up to a decent speed that would have been true.
@mrspivvy13 жыл бұрын
@theamateurbasher yeah, I'd heard about that- gonna have to go and see it I reckon. not exactly a common occurance
@tpvalley13 жыл бұрын
hes going faster than 25mph!!!
@rickhctep15036 жыл бұрын
Talk about diesel cars polluting the air.
@voidjavelin232 ай бұрын
the invention of SUV cars done more damage to it
@gooldscross87026 жыл бұрын
At 2:57 6,600hp humming nicely
@saintmartins67294 жыл бұрын
6,000 barely with 2 engine-generator sets. The baby Deltic you see here maxed out at 2,500
@gooldscross87024 жыл бұрын
@@saintmartins6729 I'm sorry where exactly anywhere in this upload is there a class 23 baby deltic all I see are class 55s no class 23s bud
@themightyzanoss84093 жыл бұрын
@@gooldscross8702 only 1 engine in each loco is working not both so the hp is less
@balmesh14 жыл бұрын
Correct - it's like seeing a Rolls pulling a trailer!
@thehoff198212 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Take that eco-mentalists!
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
RIP anyone's washing that had just been hung out :-o
@thebeast27465 жыл бұрын
Pair dunces
@Coltnz13 жыл бұрын
@@mspenrice Same as in the age of steam!
@likklej84 жыл бұрын
East coast Midland and west coast mainline GWR lines no way Warships Hymeks ok
@Viator194 жыл бұрын
Im in the minority but ive never really liked Deltics. Has a tinny engine noise and lacks that deep roar.
@robtyman42814 жыл бұрын
Sure it doesn't have the deep level throb of the much newer 68's, but you can't deny that Deltics have a specific sound of their own - like a 'droning noise'. They don't sound like any other diesel. Mind you neither do the class 68's. Love both of them.
@christastic1006 жыл бұрын
So wrong it's right
@MrStapletonRoad6 жыл бұрын
christastic100 😜
@railwaysroundthemidlands600611 жыл бұрын
It want to be a steam train
@chriseaton20706 жыл бұрын
Thomas Eades nn
@73Datsun180B6 жыл бұрын
deltic engine needs hard work ALLthe time
@barry51114 жыл бұрын
Just as stinking and polluting as steam was.
@saintmartins67294 жыл бұрын
Nowhere near it.
@barry51114 жыл бұрын
@@saintmartins6729 Two stroke diesels stink and pollute. From what I see the steam engine emissions rapidly dissipate in the open countryside where those diesel fumes hang about with their nox and particulates. The Deltics that are on youtube are always belching filth and the cold start up is absolutely horrendous. The steam is pure nostalgia these days as I know from my trainspotting days when I lived a stone's throw from Kings Cross and St Pancras. The steam engine is pure filth all round and the engines on British Rail were never as clean as the heritage railways and needed a team just to clean them out and fire them up. The latest diesels subject to the EU rules are much better in terms of emissions.
@saintmartins67294 жыл бұрын
@@barry5111 I grew up in the same area - Camden Town. We used to collect the numbers of the steam engines and kept checklists of numbers and names. Before diesel though. How about that!
@barry51114 жыл бұрын
@@saintmartins6729 A couple of times I cadged a ride up the platform on the footplate at Kings Cross on the A4's. The engine drivers were mostly good with the kids. I remember the prototype Deltic, but never got to see it. I lived at Kings Cross so I could really go trainspotting on all regions. School holidays a couple of sandwiches and I could be out all day. Nice times not like today where I grew up is a different world now.
@saintmartins67294 жыл бұрын
@@barry5111 Yes - talk about memory lane! I never saw a Deltic in the flesh.