Talk:British Rail Class 55
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[edit] Unique engine design
What about mentioning the engine, it was pretty unusual. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.210.112.4 (talk • contribs) 03:07, May 28, 2006.
[edit] Service and performance
Could do with a lot more info on service - the Deltics were exceptionally high performance for diesel locomotives, not just becuase of their power, but also becuase of the spec of the electrical transmission system. They forced extensive speed upgrades on the ECML and paved the way for HST and later IC225 workings. No other UK diesel locomotive could have done that.--81.152.21.121 10:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] White window surrounds.
Could we clarify this, all the pictures I have seen of green Deltics indicate the whole class had this feature while in BR green. I had understood that Finsbury park had re-instated them to it's machines before withdrawal in BR Blue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.38.64.93 (talk) 21:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC).
- That's true pictures of 55003 Meld illustrate it with both blue window surrounds (admittedly with the paint flaking to reveal white underneath) and also in servive with the white surrounds. The white surronds were added on April 6th 1979. There are also pictures of 55003 Meld on the scrapline at Doncaster works with this feature. Meld was assigned to Finsbury Park. (Ferdinand4321 16:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC))
[edit] DP2
Although out of the scope of this article mention should be made of DP2 (linked back to the class 50) article, if for no other reason than to prevent people mistaking an un/wrongly captioned picture of DP2 for a production Deltic. Comments either way please. (SouthernElectric 15:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC))
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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
