Recent content by napierdeltic

Why because of heatwaves and droughts do we need to electrify? Very odd question. Are you thinking of global warming as its too late for that now. Country is £3 trillion in debt because of borrowing money and pervious governments trying to play a balancing act. Only increase taxes will extra...

Well done to those producing a timetable with the locomotive number in black and the background purple. Cannot read that on a mobile phone

Whats the Deltic plus locos Sunday evening - quite a few is it ?

The second Deltic powerunit doesn't start revving up from idle until around 20 MPH to produce power. Does depend on other things too like throttle position needs to be at least 3/4. So running on a preserved line with a speed limit of 25 MPH means most of the time the second engine does nothing...

Must be a high percentage of preserved railways that do driver experience courses. So a large range of different locos that can be driven from tank engines to diesels. Our Deltic 55002 is mainline registered so what ever floats your boat :D The driver experience on Oct 1st at the SVR is the...

Tut tut old diesel indeed !! That's you marked down for starters :lol: Joking aside the Deltic Experience days fill up quickly which ever line we take our locos to so I would booked as soon as you can. Look forward to seeing you guys on the day.

The ECS is the stock which is based at York for the York - Scarborough Spa

Look out for todays York's Scarborough Spa stock ECS to Leeds is to be hauled by Deltic 55002. More info on the koyli website

Class 52’s worked regular to Northampton on a stone train in their last years right up to them finishing in 1977. I used to see this quite often at Roade cutting. Regarding Wizzos on the MML two of them on the same day worked South Wales to Corby. I have a photo of one of them at Glendon South...

Hi TP Yes it would have been me you spoke to in the high vis overalls. Thanks for sorting out the guard duties. I quickly subscribe to the forum and put up the posting of 19 running while at work 19 throw a wobbly as me and RHF didn’t want to go home after Saturday. The three drivers and I...

This is completely wrong and 55019 is running as planned tomorrow. Cheers Stuart 55019 travelling fitter