{"id":62163,"date":"2010-01-22T22:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62163"},"modified":"2020-08-20T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:25:03","slug":"a-deltic-on-the-whitby-branch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62163","title":{"rendered":"A Deltic on the Whitby Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62162\" width=\"570\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1.jpg 2340w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1-393x300.jpg 393w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1-1536x1174.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1-2048x1565.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1-150x115.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WhitbyLine-3-1-400x306.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I couldn\u2019t resist posting this image!&nbsp; David tells me that it\u2019s Castleton Station, but when was a Class 55 \u201dDeltic\u201d on the Whitby line, I know that there used to be one at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Russ Piggot says \u201dWithout sounding too trainspotterish, it was 55002 on a special to Whitby in summer 1981. I remember seeing it go through Great Ayton\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Craig Oliphant tells us: \u201d55002 did two Merrymakers from Newcastle to Whitby on 02\/08\/1981 via Durham, Ferryhill, Stockton, and the second one on the 30\/08\/1981 via Sunderland, both I believe had what are now termed Mini Tours from Whitby to Middlesbrough and return during the day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thanks David Richardson,&nbsp;Russ Piggot and Craig Oliphant for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I couldn\u2019t resist posting this image!&nbsp; David tells me that it\u2019s Castleton Station, but when was a Class 55 \u201dDeltic\u201d on the Whitby line, I know that there used to be one at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russ Piggot says \u201dWithout sounding too trainspotterish, it was 55002 on a special to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diesel-locos","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63516,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62163\/revisions\/63516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}