Basking in the late afternoon sunshine at Scarborough station prior to departure the returning Coronation Deltic charter, running as 1Z56, 55009 'Alycidon' looks superb and ready to go. At first, things went well with a slight delay at York and then a longer delay due to signalling issues in the Doncaster area. However, at Retford we were put into the station that was a little odd with no stop planned....things went badly wrong from there, read on......!
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