I love the sound of the deltics

So good to see these old girls on heritage service but so hard to catch them with both engines running nowadays. I appreciate it cuts down engine wear just running one unit alternately but boy do they sound good with both engines at full chat!

@MrStapletonRoad

4 жыл бұрын

Really pleased that you liked the clips.

Fantastic footage sir, first model train as a kid was a delicious in this livery, amazing stuff and what a sound, music to the ears! All the best, Paul

That run up Goodrington Bank is the angriest I've heard Deltics run. Glorious!

Fantastic !!! What a sound !!!! Thanks for sharing

superb vid of this countrys best engines, totally agree with you a deltic looks out of place pulling freight, but still just glad to see them on the line today, cant wait till next year to capture 22 again on the ecml railtours, RSG has done an outstanding job this year on railtours especially the last one on the 4th dec, when most trains cancelled rsg makes it from preston to edinburgh with no fuss then takes in a dundee mini tour, remarkeble for a 50 year old diesel, thank you

I've a photo in one of my books, with one of the said napier beasts on a freight train of vans back in the 60's. Great footage. Nice one.

I love the smell of Napier in the morning...

@ColinH1973

4 жыл бұрын

Smells like victory!!

I spose thats the tunnel fumigated for another year!! good ol two stroke deltics.. drinks gallons to the mile and turns diesel into smoke n noise!!

I attended that event and well remember the coaches getting clagged out passing through Greenaway tunnel.

"It's just so wrong" nails it! 😂 Let's put it this way: In the first ten years after the war Bitain was practically bankrupt and heavily dependent on foreign loans. Getting the old steam trains off the tracks, modernizing the tracks (concrete sleepers instead of wood and continuous welded rail instead of the old clickety-clack), reibuilding and renovating stations and so on... All that was a huge and expensive effort for war torn Britain. They simply couldn't afford to electrify. So they went with diesel locomotives. The first post war diesels were trash. But things were getting better and better and the Deltics were clearly a triumph. By the early 1960s the Deltics were introduced and they were an immediate success. For instance: Travel times between London and Edinburgh were cut by 90 minutes (!!). The problem was: They should have stopped there and focused on electrification!! Instead British Rail was almost "dieselized to death".

@kevinwalton4538

2 жыл бұрын

We still are!!

@MarioStahl1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinwalton4538 I know. It's really frustrating how slow progress is made in that field (electrification).

@joesophie90

2 жыл бұрын

What was the first post war diesel engine by the way?

@MarioStahl1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@joesophie90 You can look that up here: Wikipedia has several lists for that which have proven to be accurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Rail_diesel_locomotives en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Rail_modern_traction_locomotive_classes#Diesel_locomotives

Smokey old buggers those Deltics.

Great stuff!

Awesome video mate :)

Something special about all 24 deltics including DP1 and DP1.

@MrStapletonRoad I agree on that one, you can't beat that Deltic engine sound.

The Deltic engines sound amazing but the train needs a proper horn for goodness sake!

@RWBHere

4 жыл бұрын

Those Deltic engines are loud. The horns are almost superfluous. 😉

@terrier_productions

4 жыл бұрын

PROPER HORN?! Don’t make me laugh.. the Deltic’s horn is awesome

Does anyone know what the lettering/numbers represent on the nose?

Superb action, agree totally with thehoff1982

You caught the sound quite well.

@MrStapletonRoad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Was the gradient pulling away 1:43?

@baggyaureol Many thanks...I can feel a trip to the North East coming up soon.

These diesel galas of the 90’s seemed such a success and they must have made money from them so why don’t they have them anymore? It is a same and would be great to see more diesel action on the line.

@MrStapletonRoad There is a Press Release on the Royal Scots Grey website, which contains more information =]

Such a mighty machine...endowed with a weak ass ghetto horn!!!!!

Nonsense. A diesel's natural home is at the head of a freight train. No passengers to complain about the noise (or that it's a roar rather than chuff-chuff) or smoke (or that it doesn't smell of coal), plenty of weight needing to be dragged giving them an excuse to sit at notch 8 for minutes on end even on a heavily speed restricted line... ;) Of course they can't get up to max speed, but they can still hit a good fraction of it on the mainline (heritage lines, you're hamstrung even with passengers), and particularly with mail trains. They were designed, built, and originally used as general purpose workhorses anyway, they were never just passenger only. And the last one to run in non-heritage paying service was helping cover a railfreight traction crisis a few years ago...

@MrStapletonRoad

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your forthright views, hope you enjoyed the clip.

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

It's all in jest, mate :) (And yes)

What’s wrong with a good thrash everyonce in a while?

@MrStapletonRoad

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely nothing at all.....

That’s 3300 hp of 2 stroke engine for you.

@Southernrailwaysfan Glad you liked it, I am quite new to You Tube but I am getting to know lots of the regulars I also have a Flickr channel. There are lots of like minded people on that site also. Cheers Eddie

saw a deltic at nevile hill once and then saw a scrap train hauling some old barrier coaches some deltic remains a scrap class 60 a class 56x3 a barrier coach some fire damaged mk3s another barrier coach and a class 37 all hauled by a class 67 going to the scrappers all of this was coming from healy mills by the looks of things

Good old Deltic.......who said it was goodbye to smoke and fumes when steam went 😂😂😂😂NOOOOOO lets invent a 100MPH SMOKE GENERATOR that sounds AWESOME! BTW the fans leaning out of the windows ARE NOT doing Nazi salutes as some think. Its called ‘FLAILING’ it is our appreciation of things on rails 😃 its nothing more than a wave of YAAAYY BRILLIANT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

@MrStapletonRoad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your contribution KK

@theamateurbasher For real ? let me know some details if you get them. Cheers Eddie

wow! gordon highlander without the purple paint and stupid headlights! - epic!

Yes the squeaky horn is YUK, million pound machine and little car horn?

@theamateurbasher yeah, I'd heard about that- gonna have to go and see it I reckon. not exactly a common occurance

hes going faster than 25mph!!!

AWESOME IN P.T BOATS.

As long as it's running.

This sounds ridiculous, but having travelled many times behind a Deltic from Kings Cross and seen them on preserved lines...i had not twigged the reason for the smoke was that the Deltic was a 2-stroke engine!!!! All is now explained, but who had the job of tipping the oil into it??

And they say steam locos create pollution.......

Take that mother nature!

To the person that put a deltic on freight duty: IF I FIND YOU I WILL MURDER YOU. YOU NEVER PUT SUCH A GOOD ENGINE ON A FREIGHT TRAIN

@MrStapletonRoad

6 жыл бұрын

A bit harsh but fair point i guess. You wouldn't tow a caravan with a Ferrari.....

@FockeWolf100

6 жыл бұрын

Considering BR put A4s on freight trains.. no engine is above freight duty.

@ashbridgeindustries380

6 жыл бұрын

But just imagining the likes of Mallard, Kestrel and Bittern on freight duty... oh, it's unbearable.

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

Biiiiiit scary there, Matt. You might wanna try decaf tomorrow. In any case, BR used them for all different purposes anyway. It was one of the revolutionary things about diesels as far as they were concerned... you didn't need to build hundreds of different classes of steam loco too cover all kinds of finely graded purposes (and each only being available for a certain limited range of uses) any more. Just build a bunch of Deltic class diesels and you have something that's just as happy pulling a short passenger service at 90mph and part throttle as grinding up a steep grade, unbanked, employing full throttle on both engines at 20-some mph, pulling a 30-car freight consist. Any loco could do any job. They could even shunt if absolutely necessary, though it was better in that one specific case to use a more compact engine geared for lots of stopping and starting at marshalling yard speeds...

the last train...almost 1000bhp per coach!

@holmesjunction

6 жыл бұрын

Try counting the exhausts. Only 500 hp per coach (both running on one engine)!

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but if it had been allowed to get up to a decent speed that would have been true.

Correct - it's like seeing a Rolls pulling a trailer!

Talk about diesel cars polluting the air.

@voidjavelin23

Ай бұрын

the invention of SUV cars done more damage to it

At 2:57 6,600hp humming nicely

@saintmartins6729

4 жыл бұрын

6,000 barely with 2 engine-generator sets. The baby Deltic you see here maxed out at 2,500

@gooldscross8702

4 жыл бұрын

@@saintmartins6729 I'm sorry where exactly anywhere in this upload is there a class 23 baby deltic all I see are class 55s no class 23s bud

@themightyzanoss8409

3 жыл бұрын

@@gooldscross8702 only 1 engine in each loco is working not both so the hp is less

My Ariel Arrow smoked more than that in the 60s.

Yeah! Take that eco-mentalists!

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

RIP anyone's washing that had just been hung out :-o

@thebeast2746

5 жыл бұрын

Pair dunces

@Coltnz1

3 жыл бұрын

@@mspenrice Same as in the age of steam!

It want to be a steam train

@chriseaton2070

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Eades nn

Deltics had 2 engines. That first one was a baby Deltic.

@46harry

3 жыл бұрын

No, there isn't any of them left

So wrong it's right

@MrStapletonRoad

6 жыл бұрын

christastic100 😜

East coast Midland and west coast mainline GWR lines no way Warships Hymeks ok

Im in the minority but ive never really liked Deltics. Has a tinny engine noise and lacks that deep roar.

@robtyman4281

4 жыл бұрын

Sure it doesn't have the deep level throb of the much newer 68's, but you can't deny that Deltics have a specific sound of their own - like a 'droning noise'. They don't sound like any other diesel. Mind you neither do the class 68's. Love both of them.

deltic engine needs hard work ALLthe time

Just as stinking and polluting as steam was.

@saintmartins6729

4 жыл бұрын

Nowhere near it.

@barry5111

4 жыл бұрын

@@saintmartins6729 Two stroke diesels stink and pollute. From what I see the steam engine emissions rapidly dissipate in the open countryside where those diesel fumes hang about with their nox and particulates. The Deltics that are on youtube are always belching filth and the cold start up is absolutely horrendous. The steam is pure nostalgia these days as I know from my trainspotting days when I lived a stone's throw from Kings Cross and St Pancras. The steam engine is pure filth all round and the engines on British Rail were never as clean as the heritage railways and needed a team just to clean them out and fire them up. The latest diesels subject to the EU rules are much better in terms of emissions.

@saintmartins6729

4 жыл бұрын

@@barry5111 I grew up in the same area - Camden Town. We used to collect the numbers of the steam engines and kept checklists of numbers and names. Before diesel though. How about that!

@barry5111

4 жыл бұрын

@@saintmartins6729 A couple of times I cadged a ride up the platform on the footplate at Kings Cross on the A4's. The engine drivers were mostly good with the kids. I remember the prototype Deltic, but never got to see it. I lived at Kings Cross so I could really go trainspotting on all regions. School holidays a couple of sandwiches and I could be out all day. Nice times not like today where I grew up is a different world now.

@saintmartins6729

4 жыл бұрын

@@barry5111 Yes - talk about memory lane! I never saw a Deltic in the flesh.