55009 leaving Doncaster 29/7/23.

[@2898nickg]

What a wonderful sight and sound! I was born and brought up in Doncaster, and as a youngster between mid 1960s to early 1970s lived about a mile and half from Doncaster station. I can to this day remember having my bedroom windows open during the summer nights, and listening to the rise and fall in pitch of the Delic engine note as they depart the station or came charging though on the fast lines. To still be able to see and hear them doing what they were designed and built for all these years later is amazing!

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Great comment! The first time I ever stood alongside a Deltic was as a young child at Doncaster Station - even at that age I realised this was no ordinary locomotive, the way the engines vibrated through the platform as it ticked over like a mighty beast straining at the leash to be set free! Years later I was lucky enough to regularly ride behind them to Newcastle.....every journey hauled by the racehorses of British Railways was special!

[@2898nickg]

@@robertp.wainman4094 thank you for the acknowledgment. They really are something special aren’t they.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

​@@2898nickgThey certainly are! I think the design - and of course the quite incredible sounds, create a feeling of supreme - yet friendly - power and a confidence that no matter how hard the conditions ahead may be - the Deltic will get you there! Although I'm probably in danger of anthropomorphising.......other machines I can think of that have taken on a character of their own being - amongst others - the world's best known bus: the Routemaster and the magnificent bomber that thought it was a fighter: the Vulcan!

[@ColinH1973]

Excellent footage, thanks. Everyone loves a Deltic!

[@robertlees7528]

Many hour spent at Doncaster alongside the two tone grreen deltics still have my photos. Oh for a time machine!

[@kolejnakolej.1437]

Super retro train. 👍

[@petercollingwood4108]

What a wonderful site, you don’t often see blonde train spotters, lovely 👍

[@mrball5766]

Its my mum that Pete.

[@dackesjulag]

Majestic..

[@Helvett222]

👍

[@jerryhayes9497]

Noisy bastards 😂😂