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55021 (D9021) "ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDER" performed two 'Merrymaker' excursions in August 1981 both from Edinburgh Waverley to Oban. The first occurred on Sunday 2nd August and 55021 is seen above having arrived at Oban with the 1Z19 09:15 from Edinburgh...
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...Another view shows the headboard affixed to the locomotive which was a re-designed "The Silver Jubilee" headboard carried by the Deltics in 1977 on the 1S12 07:45 King's Cross - Edinburgh and 1E20 15:00 Edinburgh - King's Cross services. Haymarket staff had altered the headboard to read "West Highland Tour" (when the train ran again on the 23rd August the cross of St. George was replaced with a West Highland motif)...
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...55021 runs round the stock, comprising of 4 MkIII coaches a restaurant car and DBSO. It was the first appearance of MkIII stock on the West Highland route...
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...55021 ready to depart with the return 1Z19 15:00 'Merrymaker' service from Oban to Edinburgh Waverley on the 2nd August 1981. Three weeks later on Sunday 23rd August 55021 repeated this trip and was the only Deltic to visit the west highland town during normal BR service...
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McCaig's tower stands president over Oban as 55021 waits to return to Edinburgh on the 2nd August 1981 with the first of two 'Merrymaker' excursions the locomotive worked to the West-Highland seaport.
