3023 - Photo:  Russell Watkins.

55016 (D9016) "GORDON HIGHLANDER" stands in front of the weigh house at Doncaster Works on the 11th April 1976. The locomotive was the first of five Deltics to be given Heavy General Repairs in an attempt to prolong the classes careers, however, the cost of such overhauls was deemed to high and instead the projected life-span of the class was shortened and withdrawals began in late 1979.

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11/04/76 - Doncaster Works (weigh house). Deltic Dynasty: Page 139.

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