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30 Years on
Sunday, 02nd January, 2011

30 Years ago the last class 55 working, in BR service, headed from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh and back. And then they were done.
55015 Tulyar55015 Tulyar heads north through Arlesey with the Deltic Scotsman Farewell headed for Edinburgh.
55008 Covered in the winter snow of 1982 55008 with nameplates removed stands at Finsbury Park awaiting onward movement for storage then scrapping at Doncaster.
40029 40029 hauls the last set of Finsbury Park Deltics north through Knebworth on a cold winters evening

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