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Due to a faulty speedometer on Deltic 55017 (D9017) "THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY" the 1G80 14:40 Aberdeen - Edinburgh service on 27th October 1980 had to be piloted by class 26, No. 26029. The pair are seen on the approach to Aberdeen's Ferryhill diesel depot...
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...Mike Cooper writes: as they headed out towards the Dee the Deltic erupted into life giving the class 26 a push from the rear rather like shooting the proverbial rat up a drainpipe at mach 2!!...
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...26029 shows the way across the river Dee.
Steve Dunn (then apprentice electrician at Ferryhill) writes..."Ferryhill MPD carried no spares for Deltics, thus we had to pilot it with a class 26. First thoughts were to turn it on the turntable at the depot but weighing 100 tons it was decided not to go for it!! So hence the 26 was used for a pilot".
