'Deltic' at Harringay West station
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'Deltic' at Harringay West station
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 4 Apr 1959
View eastward from the platform, ECML. This was the impressive prototype, No. DP1, of the English-Electric/Napier 3,300 hp Co-Co express locomotive (later Type 5, Class 55), on trial on the ECML in 1959, well before the class began regular service between King's Cross and Edinburgh in 1963, ousting the Gresley A4 steam locomotives. (Finsbury Park Diesel Depot had not been built, so Hornsey Depot had to service the 'Deltic, and later the other early Diesels). 'Deltic' is preserved in the National Collection at NRM, Shildon.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.57726
Longitude
-0.104707