I love the sound of the deltics

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!

I love the smell of Napier in the morning...

That run up Goodrington Bank is the angriest I've heard Deltics run. Glorious!

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

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!!

I attended that event and well remember the coaches getting clagged out passing through Greenaway tunnel.

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.

"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".

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

Something special about all 24 deltics including DP1 and DP1.

Smokey old buggers those Deltics.

Fantastic !!! What a sound !!!! Thanks for sharing

The Deltic engines sound amazing but the train needs a proper horn for goodness sake!

You caught the sound quite well.

Such a mighty machine...endowed with a weak ass ghetto horn!!!!!

That’s 3300 hp of 2 stroke engine for you.

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...

@MrStapletonRoad I agree on that one, you can't beat that Deltic engine sound.

Superb action, agree totally with thehoff1982

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 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

@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

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.

Does anyone know what the lettering/numbers represent on the nose?

@MrStapletonRoad There is a Press Release on the Royal Scots Grey website, which contains more information =]

Great stuff!

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

And they say steam locos create pollution.......

@baggyaureol Many thanks...I can feel a trip to the North East coming up soon.

Yes the squeaky horn is YUK, million pound machine and little car horn?

wow! gordon highlander without the purple paint and stupid headlights! - epic!

As long as it's running.

Was the gradient pulling away 1:43?

AWESOME IN P.T BOATS.

Awesome video mate :)

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??

Take that mother nature!

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

@theamateurbasher For real ? let me know some details if you get them. Cheers Eddie

My Ariel Arrow smoked more than that in the 60s.

What’s wrong with a good thrash everyonce in a while?

Deltics had 2 engines. That first one was a baby Deltic.

the last train...almost 1000bhp per coach!

@theamateurbasher yeah, I'd heard about that- gonna have to go and see it I reckon. not exactly a common occurance

hes going faster than 25mph!!!

Talk about diesel cars polluting the air.

At 2:57 6,600hp humming nicely

Correct - it's like seeing a Rolls pulling a trailer!

Yeah! Take that eco-mentalists!

East coast Midland and west coast mainline GWR lines no way Warships Hymeks ok

Im in the minority but ive never really liked Deltics. Has a tinny engine noise and lacks that deep roar.

So wrong it's right

It want to be a steam train

deltic engine needs hard work ALLthe time

Just as stinking and polluting as steam was.