| Putting the gallery of photos of 55019 together reminded me that it was a snowy December day exactly 25 years before on 28th December 1981 that the final BR Deltic tour ran around the old West Riding haunts with 55009 'Alycidon' on the 'Deltic Excutive'.
I have added a varied selection of other wintery photos from 1979 to 1981 to complete this collection, almost everything shown here is long gone now... |
31 205 passes through Guiseley's down platform on the Ilkley branch - 13th January 1979. 1280x854 1979006.jpg |
47 280 with a Healey Mills-Carlisle freight in light snow aspproaching Shipley - 28th November 1980. 1280x854 1980222.jpg |
40019 runs through Shipley Dockfield with an up mixed freight off the Settle Carlisle line - 28th November 1980. 1000x667 1980224.jpg |
40153 leads the Heysham to Hull ammonia tanks east past Shipley Dockfield - 28th November 1980. 1000x667 1980225.jpg |
85 002 on the 12.55 Birmingham-Liverpool Lime St at Stafford - 23rd February 1981. 1000x656 1981067.jpg |
86 007 at Stafford with an up relief train (you don't see them today!) - 23rd February 1981. 1000x667 1981068.jpg |
81 005 enters Stafford on the delayed 12.23 Manchester-Bristol. Who remembers class 304 EMUs like that on the left? The bounciest ride known to man! - 23rd February 1981. 1000x667 1981069.jpg |
85 004 with the 14.23 Manchester-Swansea takes the Norton Bridge line at Stone - 23rd February 1981. 1000x652 1981074.jpg |
45048 ‘The Royal Marines’ waits on platform 7 at Leeds with a cross country service to Paignton. A blue Metro-Cammell class 101 DMU has arrived alongside in the odd little bay that was platform 6 - 19th December 1981 1280x854 1981334.jpg |
47 553 awaits departure from platform 12 at Leeds with a Liverpool train - 19th December 1981. 1280x854 1981335.jpg |
Manchester Victoria station pilot 25 213 with a failed class 108 DMU - 19th December 1981. 1000x667 1981336.jpg |
Last Deltic to Leeds, the headboard is placed on 55009 'Alycidon' - 28th December 1981. 1280x854 1981337.jpg |
