Deltic Preservation

Volume up, as even on one engine Locomotive Services Limited Deltic D9000/55022 'Royal Scots Grey' sounds sweet passing North Staffs Jct light engine Leeds Balm Road FD to Crewe HS on 22/10/25 @LocoServicesGrp @DelticPS @railcamlive @RailwaysToday @BritishRailTV #Deltic #Class55

Some reflective Blue and Yellow @DelticPS

@DelticPS 55019 spent today travelling @GcrGreat with a film crew on the veranda coach . Including some two engine action and higher permissible speeds. Here approaching Quorn and Woodhouse heading for Loughborough Central.

55009 'Alycidon' climbs up towards Goathland Summit 532ft above Sea Level with the 10.00 Pickering to Grosmont service through Fen Bog, Ellerbeck. 12th June 2025. 📸 ☀️ ⭐️ Gift Store ⬇️🏞️🚂 railwayartprintshop.etsy.com #deltics #deltic #britishrail #railways

A montage of Deltic 55019 Royal Higland Fusilier at the GCR 13/06/2025 @DelticPS @GcrGreat

55009 'Alycidon’ storms up the Great Northern straight with the 11.15 Keighley to Oxenhope service during the scorchio KWVR diesel gala. 19th June 2025. 📸 ☀️ ⭐️ Prints available ⬇️🏞️🚂 railwayartprintshop.etsy.com/uk/listing/432… #deltics #railways #britishrail #brblue #deltic #ukrailways #keighley #yorkshire

@McateeTom @DelticPS @RailwaysToday @Captain_Deltic @WorthValley Amazing photo Tom This was my attempt at being a photographer 🤣🤣

Deltic 55009 arriving into Keighley station this morning #Class55 #Deltic #Trains #Keighley @DelticPS

"Alycidon" singing the song of her people as she thunders up towards Oxenhope 😍 @WorthValley @DelticPS #Class55 #KeighleyAndWorthValleyRailway #DieselGala

So, remember the three EEs yesterday? How about we make it 4? 50021 "Rodney" and 55009 "Alycidon" are heading down the hill this time, while 37508 and 37057 "Barbara Arbon" await the signal to restart their ascent to Oxenhope. @DelticPS @ColasRailUK @WorthValley

@MrDeltic15 @westcoastrail @railcamlive @RailwaysToday @thesatnav89 @holtona72 @Andym13 @Bennybizzle1 @LeicRailAle170 @WilsonBone @kingy69beard A great day out onboard 22!

On This Day 2011, the superb sight(and believe me, superb sound too!)of 55022 climbing out of Northampton at Wilson's Farm Crossing in some early Spring sunshine with Spitfire Railtours 1Z28 Euston to Preston @DelticPS @westcoastrail @railcamlive @RailwaysToday #Deltic #Class55

@Captain_Deltic @13milepost Yes, super that it’s still around. It’s believed that a Nasty Class being used on covert ops was the first boat chased out of Nam and the conflict then started.

@13milepost Has @DelticPS seen this?. The US Navy had Deltic powered Nasty Class fast patrol boats in Nam.

A Red #Deltic , in use from 1965-1982 , Trailer mounted Napier Deltic T18-37C power unit (2400hp) linked to 8800 gpm pump, the retired #SuperPumper from FDNY, New York City , now in museum, Bay City Michigan 🇺🇸 viewable at Weekends May- October

Royal Highland Fusilier… taken at Kidderminster pre-pandemic during a driver experience day… Read on the ⁦@DelticPS⁩ website that she’s running at the ⁦@GcrGreat⁩ on 28-Dec? Can’t find anything elsewhere.. is this happening - and is anything else running?

The CFPS volunteers have been busy at the ELR today working on D345 getting the loco ready for next Saturday & the Pathfinder charter on the 19th October. CFA loco 40 012 was also run up today.

55 019 at King's Cross at 21.07 on 22nd May 1999. @networkrail #DailyPick #Archive @DelticPS

A major milestone was achieved over the weekend with the ongoing repairs to get 40 135 back in good health. The power unit has been removed ready for the next stage of having the crankshaft swapped. Thanks to the CFPS volunteers and the ELR for all the hard work.

I had cause to celebrate this today. The culmination of 27 years of effort by @DelticPS. Restoring the Voice of God to this great old machine. ‘Goliath was not a giant bullock; he was a racehorse.’

@realPeterSpokes Some low life stole my son’s AirPods on the school bus and then abandoned them as they have last location on the phone. We retrieved one miles from home, but the other was lost to the undergrowth. Hopefully the person who lost this one will use the app!

Why I don’t have them. Someone’s £200 down the toilet.

"They had the noise, power, speed, everything. They were marvellous, unlike anything that had gone before or indeed since, the kind of reason why people fall in love with trains." - session drummer Ian Naisbitt recalls the Deltics, retired from British Rail 42 years ago today

OTD 42 years ago. A sad day but what a privilege it was to have been a witness to (and play a very small part in) the BR Deltic era.