anyone else as selectively pedantic as me…?
BBC news mentioned
“The steam train that could power the future”
I don’t know about anyone else but steam train means a train whose motion is derived by the expansion of steam.
This one is only steam in the sense that steam is the main exhaust from the “engine”
If they could use hydrogen as boiler fuel, they could keep the boiler topped up on the exhaust.
Three operational Deltics will be at the ‘Greatest gathering’ event in Derby at the Alstom works in August for the three-day event.
Did Deltics ever work Western region? If they I can’t remember it.
Think only on excursions/railtours in the later years.
Their stomping ground was the ECML far as I know.
I stand to be corrected though. Incredible locomotives.
As stated, primarily ECML, with some deviations. For some reason Deltics were daily services throughout the 80’s for Hull - London - Hull deviating from/onto the ECML at Doncaster.
Thank you both for answering.
Deltics were East Coast (Kings Cross - Scotland) machines, 2 triangular formation engines, 3300hp, two strokes.They were heavy on maintenance costs, heavy on oil consumption (fuel consumption ?? don’t ask 
)but they were (and the ones that are left still are) magnificent machines.They only very rarely ventured away from their home turf.