0347 - Photo: Mark Shipman.

55021 (D9021) "ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDER" brings the stock of the 1A31 18:10 service to King's Cross into York on the 7th August 1981. 55021 had just come off 'B' exam at York TMD, where it had been since the 3rd August - on the 2nd August 55021 had been the first (and only) Deltic to visit Oban, a trip it would repeat on the 23rd of the same month.

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