The current issue of Rail magazine (923) has an article on the Deltics. At the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 80s, after being displaced from the top ECML services, they were used elsewhere for a few years before being withdrawn.
On page 63, left column, it says:
It's not clear how many destinations are meant to be covered by the words "from York". Presumably Cleethorpes means from KX; Liverpool obviously means the north trans-Pennine route; but what's all this about Stockport? Stockport from where? There wasn't a York-Stockport service via Stalybridge, was there?
On page 63, left column, it says:
Once the full East Coast allocation of HSTs was available in early 1979, class 55s were reassigned to semi-fast services between King's Cross-York-Edinburgh and to Hull. Other destinations included Cleethorpes, Stockport and Liverpool from York and Aberdeen from Edinburgh.
It's not clear how many destinations are meant to be covered by the words "from York". Presumably Cleethorpes means from KX; Liverpool obviously means the north trans-Pennine route; but what's all this about Stockport? Stockport from where? There wasn't a York-Stockport service via Stalybridge, was there?