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What was meant to be a video of Class 55 Deltic D9000 Royal Scots Grey at speed through Grantham in the glorious sunshine on her first tour since October, from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley after her engine issues were fixed at Barrow Hill was sadly not meant to be. Unfortunately, she was having further powering issues with her second engine and she was looped into Platform 4 after becoming later and later from the Peterborough area. It is believed that she had coolant issues.
After over 30 mins of many attempts to start the 2nd engine up successfully, it kept on shutting down and with the Deltic delaying services, including my train home from Grantham she eventually crawled out of the station with the 15mph speed limit out of platform 4.
After Grantham, it would seem the Deltic was once again looped at Newark Northgate and then again at Doncaster where she would pick up & drop off passengers with Doncaster & Newcastle after an incident happening between Darlington & Newcastle earlier in the day causing big disruptions along the ECML.
As of typing this, it is believed that the Class 90 on the rear, 90001 Royal Scot would be powered up to assist the Deltic on one engine from Doncaster onwards
Fingers crossed D9000s problems aren't anything too serious and that she can come back again better than ever
To end the video on a positive note we feature some bonus footage of Class 37 37608 Andromeda blasting through at speed dragging Class 379s, 379019 & 379004 from Ilford EMUD to Worksop Up Receptions at speed.
Overall we would've liked to have featured some close ups of the Deltic standing there but we just didn't know when it was going to move so the decision to stay put was made. We hope you enjoy what we managed to capture anyway.
If anyone knows what the actual issues were with the Deltic, let us know in the comments below!
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