Yes...that unforgettable Deltic sound!

The Secret Clag mix is leaking out ,, someone over filled the cauldron 😂😂😂

Never ceases to fascinate me

The Deltics Napier engine: A triangle shaped internal combustion engine with pistons that fired and compressed into eachother as a triangle formation. All firing three seperate crankshafts around the outside of the engine. This was the most craziest most mind boggling most insane piece of two-stroke diesel engineering in the whole of diesel history.

The first few seconds always sounds like somebody pouring a bucket of nuts and bolts down a corrugated iron roof!

@FS2K4Pilot

3 ай бұрын

Or a brick in a washing machine…

Amazing engineering to this day👌🏼

They still spew oil, great engines 💪🏻

Love the sound

These beasts were something else!

4 of my favourite traction engine sounds. Deltic. Paxman-Valenta. (HST) Class 66 (Catapillar engine?) Cummins (Voyager)

@The_Grand_Autismo1

11 сағат бұрын

Class 66s use EMD engines, in the UK the only 2 ATM with caterpillar engines are The class 68 and 88 to my knowledge

That oil down the bodyside does not auger well for engine number 2 ! Good job they have two of them. 😮

You would probably have been better to stand further away. Just because you stand closer doesn't necessarily mean you'll get the best sound, as the auto sound gain on your device would lower the noise entering the microphone.

Although I love Deltics my favourite livery is the BR Green and grey footplate level all around colour. Never liked the B Rail livery! Good photo!

Hermoso.

Woosh My Lords!

The better sound is when they are revving hard under load. I'm not such a fan of the booming noise they make when not loaded.

Very smooth startup. Not bad, I prefer an EMD 567 or 645. The 710’s aren’t bad either.

Is that the one with opposed pistons?

@JimmyCasket02

Жыл бұрын

Yes in a triangle shape

@kingofsludge7262

Жыл бұрын

@@JimmyCasket02 man what a design.

The best place to hear it was when they had been standing shut down on the buffers at the Cross, and they sent a plume of clag up to the roof.

I'd prefer listening to either a 37 , 47 or a 50 start up myself .

@markgriffiths8860

11 ай бұрын

Class 37 start up is hot

The Drone Zone !

Die Ölspur außen am Aufbau 😮

How to tell if its working well: Theres still oil in it to leak out

Those Napier powerhouses...nothing like the copy-paste diesels we have here in America, to me here we have the same exact 5 or so diesel classes repainted in like 70 liveries, but that's just me

@trainsplanes

Жыл бұрын

It’s similar here with the class 66 locos we imported from North America also - They dominate most freight/goods workings. 👍

Honestly this makes me sad! Its from a time when Britain had good engineering and produced such great machines! Like class 37svstill in active service nearly 70 years later. All this has gone

ery noice

Sssss tututututu

How to upset every class 55 fan.....it sounds like I dropped my tool box on garage floor.....tin hat ready?

@phillynch3819

Жыл бұрын

It's the phase gearbox, that brings the 3 cranks into sync.

@grahamallen1970

Жыл бұрын

@@phillynch3819 how? By putting lose spanners in to crank case!....no sound of spanners at full chat!

@danielcrowe7242

6 ай бұрын

I agree with that one. I was never a fan of the deep two-stroke 'Warbling' sound on these. I couldn't say it was a nice noise. They sounded more like an air compressor for a bus or a coach than an engine. However I was fascinated by the way the whole Deltic engine was made and how it combusted as a triangle with three crankshafts around the edges of the engine. Completely round the bend with the whole physics of an internal combustion engine. I have no idea how terrible it was on burning oil and diesel. Or what common problems or wear and tear a 'Triangle' engine threw up.

Definitely wasn’t a cold start 😂

88 litre....

Those dont sound good at all

@ianbain8838

Жыл бұрын

They most definitely weren't a Classic BR engine Unlike every other Locomotive that BR ran including the 08 shunter .

@RoyxlPhxntom

Жыл бұрын

@Jay Opinion acknowledged. And ignored.

@danielcrowe7242

6 ай бұрын

What do you expect with an engine that fires as a Two Stroke Triangle?