December 28th 1981 and the Class 55 Deltics were in their final days of service. This is 55021 "Argyll and Sutherland Highlander" at York working a Dundee to Kings Cross additional. I had travelled on this from Newcastle, the Deltic was operating on one engine, as can be seen by the single exhaust plume, so it was as tired as it now looked, with only a few days left on the books. 21 was not to survive, being cut up at Doncaster
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