To celebrate 20 years of Deltic service on the ECML 55022 (D9000) "ROYAL SCOTS GREY" waits to depart King's Cross with the 1L42 12:20 service for York complete with commemorative headboard (supplied by the Deltic Preservation Society) on the 28th February 1981 - twenty years to the day that D9000 entered service. The train even had a brass band send-off and one of the players can be seen in a red tunic to the left of the locomotive. At York NRM there was a Deltic display cabinet including memorabilia, nameplates and photographs. 55022 returned with the 1A26 15:50 York - King's Cross...

2357 - Photo & ©: Bob Peach.

...55022 (D9000) "ROYAL SCOTS GREY" at King's Cross with the 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York service on 28th February 1981...

2512 - Photo: Daryl White.

...Celebrating its twentieth year in service 55022 (D9000) "ROYAL SCOTS GREY" prepares to leave King's Cross with the 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York service on 28th February 1981.

__________  Picture Reference  __________ 28/02/81 - 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York (headboard "Deltics 20th Anniversary") Deltic Deadline No.20: Page 17 & 20. 28/02/81 - 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York (headboard "Deltics 20th Anniversary") Deltic Deadline No.47: Page 7. 28/02/81 - 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York (headboard "Deltics 20th Anniversary") Deltic Deadline No.100: Page 24. 28/02/81 - 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York (headboard "Deltics 20th Anniversary") In Memory of the Deltics Section: 55022. 28/02/81 - 1L42 12:20 King's Cross - York (headboard "Deltics 20th Anniversary") Last Days of the Deltics: Page 93.

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