That is brilliant. I have looked at the website and am interested how you found the answer so quickly. You seem to have to know the locomotive already before you can display their workings. Is there a page where you can see all Deltic workings for a particular day?
Thanks for looking and taking the time to find an entry. This website is a treasure trove of information. I took a number of photos of Deltics in the seventies, most of which can be clearly identified. I have compared each one with this website and where an entry exists it seems to stack up, so I'm willing to accept that this one is of 'St Paddy'. My original notes said it was 9005, but someone on Flickr kindly pointed out the nameplate was too small and could only be one of the 'racehorses'.To be honest I just remember someone did this for A4 steam locos a while back so I figured as Deltics are the diesel equivalent surely something similar would have been done. A quick Google confirmed my thinking. I was 6 years old when they ended service so I didn't really know them too well.
As for how I found it so fast - well D9001 is the second loco in the fleet. Had it been D9021 it would have taken me a bit longer
If you were so motivated you could offer to build and improve on what info exists already to create a more comprehensive searchable database.
It is indeed. The photo title refers to 'Talisman' and you have clarified which train that was. Thanks.
Any ideas what distinguishing marks can be seen here? Someone once identified a Class 40 for me because they knew about the positions of numbers, logos and grabrails etc. Are you the go to Deltic person? (I hope you are!).
I don't remember seeing any TOPS-numbered diesel until December 73, a few months after this picture was taken.That doesn't mean there weren't any just I don't recall seeing any.