LNER Shed query

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Bullhead
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x568wcn wrote:The Protoype Deltic crashed at Thirsk.
The locomotive involved in the Thirsk accident in 1967 was DP2, not the Deltic prototype. See http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... s_DP2.html. DP2 was the test bed for equipment subsequently used in the class 50s, I believe. The Deltic prototype is in the NRM, so far as I know: see http://www.nrm.org.uk/collections/loco/deltic.asp.

A PDF version of the DoT accident report is available at http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/listing.php - as, indeed, are lots of others.
So - did anyone dare tell Stephenson, "It's not Rocket science"?
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Post by x568wcn »

Well spotted there, no one else spotted it, you are correct it was the DP2.
It's in the Return to York book, and shows it at York 20th May 1967, and 2 months later it was written off at Thirsk when it crashed in to the Cliffe-Uddingston cement Train, which had become derailed on the adjacent slow line. Seven people were killed, while DP2 languished, sheeted over at York shed yard before being towed back to it's makers at Vulcan Foundry for Dismantling.

I'm fairly new to trains, and wrote it from memory!

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Post by Bryan »

With regard to the query on 92220 Evening star if you check out
http://www.britishsteam.com/
and input the number etc
Evening star's last shed was Cardiff East withdrawn in March 1965
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