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Now the Flying Scotsmen has gone it's time for a bit of real motive power at the NYMR. 55 007 Pinza. Off to see it tomorrow, it'll bring back memories of spending school holidays zipping about on rail rover tickets and an unfortunate fall into the canal behind Doncaster works 😳
Great times. The Class 40s and 55s are two of my favourites. Happy memories of trainspotting as a kid.
The Deltics would be an ace name for a band.
That is all.
Was my favourite locomotive on my dad's train set 🙂
Don't let your Dad hear you call his layout a train set 😛
I like the Dirty Thirties. 37425 is my favourite loco, Concrete Bob 😀
Love a deltic
Remember my first trip on one from Darlington to York railway museum with my dad, It must have been in 1980 or 81 I guess, before the HST got introduced. I loved them too!
I had a Lima Deltic as a nipper...
A wonder of technical engineering!
I had a Lima Deltic as a nipper...
Did you ever think "are they this small in real life?" when sat next to a rake of 2ds?
Didn't bother me until I saw a Bachman one.
A wonder of technical engineering!
Hmm, sort of. They were (are) pretty troublesome. There's nothing on earth sounds like one at full tilt though. The best application for those engines was in the Nasty class PT boats.
Horrible noisy smelly and polluting things, Westerns and class 40 sounded better, but didnt go as fast so quickly.
But saying that a DELTIC was a masterfull piece of engineering inside but not out.Cramming two engines,steam boiler 2 cabs and fuel, oil and water tanks in such a small space.
also watch next video in the series
Nerdy fact the two double loops around the steel bars(drive shafts) are there to stop the drive shafts smashing round the engine room if they should ever snap or become parted from the gear box/engine, it appeared to be quite common on the early diesels.
Awesome power and sounded so when up close. My favourite diesel locomotive of that era, without any doubt.
As an aeroengine nerd, I find it facinating that the internals of the deltic engine was effectively three Junkers Jumo 204 series opposed piston diesel engines designed in the 1930's joined together. Obvously it wasa bit more complex than that but the technology was based on the Jumo concept
The level of design/engineering that went into deltics fascinates me, especially considering they would of been designed without any 3D modelling.
Design it, build it, hope it fits/works!
Project, catch straps for drive shafts with universal joints are still reasonably common place. Unless the UJ is on something where you can feel the vibration gradually get worse as they wear/fail and go off balance, the first you'll know about it is when they completely separate, and start swinging around battering everything within hitting distance/get launched with great force/stop abruptly as they dig into the ground*.
*delete as appropriate
Still got my Lima Deltic set, up in my parents loft. loved seeing these things when I was younger, also was a member of British Rails "Rail Riders"
Alycidon will be going up the ECML this Saturday, from York to Edinburgh as per [url= http://www.pathfindertours.co.uk/index.php/tour-calendar-reader/events/the-deltic-borderer-ii.html ]this link.[/url]
Crazy engines.
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also was a member of British Rails "Rail Riders"
The pinnacle of my life's successes so far was getting a drawing of a green tank engine into the Rail Riders magazine. It's basically been downhill since then.
Was always a very long way from South Devon to tick off those numbers. Obviously the best Diesel engines by far. What a sound. The engines were also designed for marine use.
A friend of mine used to have a job organising special train trips for one of the big train companies all over Britain. He was a MASSIVE Deltic fan. He said the best time was organising a special train which went into Liverpool Line Street and he got the driver to give the engines as much as they had while sitting in the station. Apparantely all the train fans who had been there to see the train (or be on it) were cheering like crazy but all the other normal people nearby who were just there to catch other trains were in pain with their hands over their ears!!!