Having arrived at King's Cross, I turned my Exa camera towards the buffer stops to capture two Deltics. To the left, the train that we came down from the northeast on, the 1A15 10.20 from Newcastle with 55019 'Royal Highland Fusilier'. To the right, 55002 'The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry' has arrived before our train with an unidentified up working. It is interesting to note that both these fine machines can still be enjoyed today as they are preserved. The former by the Deltic Preservation Society and the latter is part of the national collection owned by the National Railway Museum. By way of a comparison, I stood in a very similar spot nearly forty years later, whilst the location is obviously the same the motive power is somewhat different, see......
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