1905 - Photo: Gordon Lacy.

Following release from Vulcan Foundry following overhaul, and repaint into a Deltic-style livery, DP2 passes Manchester Victoria e-route back to the Eastern Region on the 27th July 1965. There has always been much confusion over which Deltic bodyshell was used when the locomotive was built at Vulcan during the Deltic production batch. It was quoted (via Vulcan sources) that the seventeenth, which makes it between 9015 and 9016, not as some believe, between 9016 and 9017.

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