Bodyside, D5910, on display, Barrow Hill Roundhouse
The group re-creating a Class 23 'Baby Deltic' have also
a brand image for the project. This plaque is attached to the side of the locomotive as it sits on Barrow Hill's roundhouse turntable. Its centre shows the triangle representing the configuration of the nine-cylinder t9 29 Deltic engine. There were ten Class 23s built by English Electric in 1959 with all withdrawn from service by 1971 and cut up bar D5901 that ended up as a test bed at the Derby Railway Technical Centre until it also succumbed in 1975. The work undertaken by the Bady Deltic Project is extraordinary and I really hope that the locomotive will be hauling trains at some time in the future.