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With its white window surrounds replaced 55015 (D9015) "TULYAR" races
through Parkside, approximately 1 mile East of Newton-le-Willows, on the 22nd
October 1981 with the 1E99 13:05 Liverpool - York service.
55015 had been reunited with its white windows for the "Wessex
Deltic" railtour on the 17th October when it worked to Eastleigh (then
home of Allan Baker - former manager at Finsbury Park and instigator of the
white window treatment). 55015 retained them for the "Deltic
Salute" tour on the 24th October, and although they were once again
painted out by the 29th of the month, they were re-applied for the "Deltic
Farewell" railtour on the 2nd January 1982 when the loco was in charge
of the outward leg from King's Cross to Edinburgh...
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...No.15 would return across the Pennines later in the day with the 1M76 15:50 York - Liverpool and is seen above at Dewsbury. These out and back services to Liverpool were ideal trains on which to test the locomotives following repairs at York, and following 55015's first appearance on a Trans-Pennine service in June 1979 (the first for the class also) the Deltics became common visitors to Merseyside...
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...Further down the line 55015 rests at Huddersfield with the 1M76 15:50 from York. On this particular occasion 55015 was being test run in between railtour duties to check the condition of the locomotive - at this time four of the locomotives No.s 55002, 55009, 55015 and 55022 were all sidelined at York to work the large amount of farewell tours on which the class were booked to haul until the end of the year.
