0116 - Photo: Paul Bettany.

The legend says "Is there life after Deltics?" - apparently there was even though the answer says "No"!!
Certainly there was no life for 55008 (D9008) "THE GREEN HOWARDS", seen here at Doncaster Works on the 27th February 1982, as its next port of call was the scraplines, where it was broken up by August of the same year. One cab did survive into preservation, privately owned for a short period before becoming the property of the Deltic Preservation Society...


1500 - Photo: Paul Bettany.

...With its work done the sun shines on 55008 at Doncaster Works on Saturday 27th February 1982.

27/02/82 - Locomotive on display at Doncaster Works Deltic farewell open day. Deltic Deadline No.26: Page 10.
27/02/82 - Locomotive on display at Doncaster Works Deltic farewell open day. Deltic Deadline No.94: Page 8.
27/02/82 - Locomotive on display at Doncaster Works Deltic farewell open day. The Deltic Years: Page 176.
   27/02/82 - Locomotive on display at Doncaster Works Deltic farewell open day. In Memory of the Deltics:  Final Gathering Section.
   27/02/82 - Locomotive on display at Doncaster Works Deltic farewell open day. Last Days of the Deltics: Page 39.
   27/02/82 - Locomotive on display at Doncaster Works Deltic farewell open day. Swansong in Camera: Page 31.

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