55019_1978_05_Newcastle
My “summer holiday” in 1978 was a First Class Eastern Region Railrover and I had stocked up with 35mm transparency film for the week ahead. Or so I thought because when it came to processing the week’s photography I realised that one roll of film was in fact a colour print film!!! Here is a shot from that roll of colour print film taken early in the morning at Newcastle with 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier standing in the platform, the second vehicle of the train being a sleeping coach, 31st May 1978.
Locomotive History
Royal Highland Fusilier was originally D9019 and entered service on the 29th December 1961, based at Haymarket MPD. Renumbered 55019 in November 1973, the locomotive was one of only five members of the class to undergo and extensive general overhaul, this being carried out during an eight month visit to Doncaster Works between January and September 1976. 55019 was withdrawn on December 31st 1981, after hauling the 16.30 Aberdeen-York between Edinburgh and York, this was the final BR Deltic hauled service train. It was therefore appropriate that the locomotive should be one of those saved from being broken up and also that it should become the first Deltic to operate a train in preservation, an event which took place at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway eight months after withdrawal, on August 22nd 1982. Royal Highland Fusilier is currently (November 2012) owned by the Deltic Preservation Society, is based at Barrow Hill but is not main line certified.
Scanned from the original negative
Praktica LTL
55019_1978_05_Newcastle
My “summer holiday” in 1978 was a First Class Eastern Region Railrover and I had stocked up with 35mm transparency film for the week ahead. Or so I thought because when it came to processing the week’s photography I realised that one roll of film was in fact a colour print film!!! Here is a shot from that roll of colour print film taken early in the morning at Newcastle with 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier standing in the platform, the second vehicle of the train being a sleeping coach, 31st May 1978.
Locomotive History
Royal Highland Fusilier was originally D9019 and entered service on the 29th December 1961, based at Haymarket MPD. Renumbered 55019 in November 1973, the locomotive was one of only five members of the class to undergo and extensive general overhaul, this being carried out during an eight month visit to Doncaster Works between January and September 1976. 55019 was withdrawn on December 31st 1981, after hauling the 16.30 Aberdeen-York between Edinburgh and York, this was the final BR Deltic hauled service train. It was therefore appropriate that the locomotive should be one of those saved from being broken up and also that it should become the first Deltic to operate a train in preservation, an event which took place at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway eight months after withdrawal, on August 22nd 1982. Royal Highland Fusilier is currently (November 2012) owned by the Deltic Preservation Society, is based at Barrow Hill but is not main line certified.
Scanned from the original negative
Praktica LTL