redgauntlet

You're not wrong, I remember the article myself. It was (I think) published within the past five or six years, I think I still have it somewhere and I'll try to dig it out.

My first sight of a Deltic was at Chester le Street in the summer of 1961. It was D9009 Alycidon heading north. It was preceded by 60027 Merlin on the Elizabethan and follwed by 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower on the Flying Scotsman. We cycled there from South Shields, do kids still do that these days?