55019 KX - ED Fails on arrival

55019 on a DPS railtour from Kings Cross to Edinburgh on 23/04/05.
Suffers loss of power and crawls into Edinburgh.

[@CollectingWorkouts]

Beautiful ending!

[@mekydro]

I was on that tour as well. Some of the DPS guys were sat opposite my table and the gen at the time was that 1 engine was giving trouble so they decided to ask for the ECML 'Thunderbird' 67 rather than risk going back to London on only 1 engine. We eventually got into KX at around 0100 and it would probably have been quicker to have limped home with the Deltic , but hey ho!

[@vorlonb3]

In the grand scheme of things, 019 did manage to get to edinburgh, would have been nice to go back, but on a 50 year old machine, bovvers do happen.

[@edwinfitchett6033]

why didn't the 47 take over ?

[@edwinfitchett6033]

sorry it was a 50 pulled it into kx or was that detached at the cross

[@24nov67]

what happened to it?

[@speedbirdconcordeBOAB]

Governor fault on one of the power units I think.

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Loss of power was the cause of the failure