'Diesel Gala 2010' ( page 2 of 4 )

 

 Deltic D9009 at the Great Central Railway on the 12th September 2010.

Deltic D9009 at Quorn and Woodhouse station during a Great Central Railway Diesel weekend in September 2010.

 Deltics or the class 55s were the ECML top link locomotives in the 1960s and 1970s untill they were replaced by the HSTs.

This Deltic is number D9009 and  is named Alycidon. It is painted in the British Railways two tone green which the deltics were frist painted in.  Like some of the LNER main line steam locomotives this Deltic is named after a racehorse winner.  Alycidon was a race horse and was the winner of the 1949 Ascot Gold Cup. This Deltic is owned by the he Deltic Preservation Society Limited who are based at the Barrow hill round house shed were they have there own depot.

Deltic D9009 at Quorn and Woodhouse station during the Great Central Railway Diesel weekend in September 2010.

D123 at Quorn & Woodhouse station in 2010

Pages on the Great Central Railway 12th Spetember 2010

D5185 + D5098 at Quorn and Woodhouse.

Deltic D9009 and D123 at Quorn and Woodhouse.

Class 37314 and D5830at Quon and Woodhouse

Class 26007  and 2-6-0 78019 at Quorn and Woodhouse

The Great Central Railway runs from Loughborough to Leicester North station close to the Leicester outer ring road. There are stations at Rothey and at Quorn & Woodhouse. The head quarters of the railway is at Loughborough were the engine shed is and the main shop ect. The railway has a large collection of steam and diesel engines

   

This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways but it is not just on trains but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taken photos.