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47 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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46 viewsAnother view of the drivers controls
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46 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road - The former site of the English Electric site where it was manufactured.
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46 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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45 views"Deltic"
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44 views14/09/2015 - An attempt to get the Diesel Prototype back to its place of manufacture 60 years earlier at the English Electric Works which was at Strand Road.
Earlier in the day -"Courageous" and "Princess" where used for the first time to move the Lindley Oil tankers down the line to the processing works and are now being used to top & tail the Deltic back down to Strand Road.
Here "Courageous" pulls Deltic onto the swing bridge tailed by "Princess"
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44 viewsObjective achieved, and after about a 5 minute chance to take photographs, "Princess is re-attached and DEltic is pulled off the crossing.
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44 viewsFurther back along the line again, the trio cross the swing bridge
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42 views"Princess" pulling Deltic back up the line towards Riversway and the reattaching of "Courageous" at the back.
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40 viewsBagnalls "Princess" heads back from Stand Road towards the swing bridge.
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40 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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40 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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38 views"Princess" pulling Deltic back up the line towards Riversway and the reattaching of "Courageous" at the back.
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37 viewsNewly restored ex Corby Steelworks Hawthorn Leslie 3931/1938 "Linda" heads back along the Riversway back towards Riversway station on the 13.40 service.
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36 views"Princess" heads across the swing bridge towards Strand Rd with the 13.40 service.
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