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Ironhead · Joined: 28 Mar 2010 Posts: 458 Location: Leicestershire

not sure if train stories are welcome on here Rick, Confused

but i was interested in an item on the news this morning,a 1961/2 Deltic 2-stroke diesel engine,the Royal Scots Grey,has been pulled out of retirement to haul trains for GB Railfreight for the next few weeks as they are short of engines Surprised

.i'm not a train spotter,but these are awesome engines!

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7211 Location: Edinburgh

If you lust after a Deltic you could always build your own... Wink

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Tomlinson.htm
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P3steve · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:49 am Post subject:

Brings back memories of me as a young lad in the 1970's on Newark station almost getting sucked of the platform by a Deltic as it went through on a non stopper at almost full speed, there was a white line painted on the platform about two yards back from the edge and you had to remain behind that to be safe, we used to stand dead on it and see who was brave enough to stay there as the train went through (A miss spent youth)
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

47Jag · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 2:52 pm Post subject:

I remember getting invited aboard a Deltic loco in Glasgow Central station to see one in action. 18 cylinders in the length of 6. Shocked

The driver offer to let us ride to London for a 'tenner'.

I read an article once thatt he New York fire department had commisioned one to drve a pump on an appliance that they reckoned would punch a hole in a skyscraper and get to the fire directly. I dont know if it ever got built. A question for Scotty?? I think it put out something like 3000 HP.

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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4232 Location: South Cheshire

I saw a deltic at Crewe station, they make an amazing sound!

Do they have 3 seperate cranks?

Dave

Ironhead · Joined: 28 Mar 2010 Posts: 458 Location: Leicestershire

Scotty · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 883

I attended a fire in a Deltic at the 'Cally' yard in Springburn in the 1980's where the throttle had jammed wide open during a test and the only way they eventually could stop it was to throw a box of rags into the air intake trunking!

Needless to say the massive engine didn't take too kindly at being stopped dead and basically blew itself apart. What was particularly frightening was there was absolutely no room inside the engine compartment to access the burning areas. In the end up it was the skinniest fireman I had in the crew was sent crawling and squeezing himself along the very narrow inspection passage to put out the fires - a b*****r of a job! Confused

Ironhead · Joined: 28 Mar 2010 Posts: 458 Location: Leicestershire

that is a class fire engine! better than our weedy ones Laughing

roverdriver · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 10:46 am Post subject:

Three crankshafts, six pistons in each vertical plane.

Works like this-

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exbmc · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: deltic

Nice animation Roverdriver. For anyone interested, the engines were rated at 1650 bhp @ 1500 rpm. So with two of them, the Deltic loco's had 3300 bhp available. They did not drive directly, but powered two huge generators, which in turn powered the six traction motors. I think Thorneycroft (?) also used the engines in motor torpedo boats.

Ironhead · Joined: 28 Mar 2010 Posts: 458 Location: Leicestershire

the deltic engine was also used in minesweepers as well apparantly