Comments left about this photograph:
From Beercat at 2007-09-09 20:08:47 : Hmmm. Wonder what use Chris Green would have made of a fleet of these - and whether the track on the Highland Main Line or the East Coast line to Aberdeen could have coped!
From darrel at 2007-09-10 09:07:50 : thanks for taking up my suggestion for this. backin 1991 scotrail were having problems with class 158s and looked into the possibility of using class 50s on glasgow aberdeen servicies the 50s at laira were inspected but consided to be in a poor condition. and the paln didnt go any further. if it had we might have seen this for real
From The Master at 2007-09-12 14:05:05 : ... although this isn't exactly a 50. There's been a Scotrail 50 somewhere else on this site for a few years.
From kev o at 2007-10-11 18:06:08 : You do realise that if this had happened, you wouldn't be seeing HSTs on the ECML right now. There'd just be IC225s with paired '51's hauling them to Aberdeen and Inverness. Not sure which would be better.
From ke@syslab.com at 2008-03-13 12:52:16 : 50's were touted in the early 80s for the accelerating the aberdeen and working the WCML- Inverness trains. The idea being that eastfield would be a primarily EE CSVT depot with it's 37s and SVT 20s. Duffs would be catered for at St Rollox and Haymarket. Weeping at the non production of this! Chris Green said no. Driver and depot training his excuse. 50s were probably more reliable than duffs for the same express useage, and especially 47/7s, which needed a lot of extra depot hours to keep going on the ScR
From The Master at 2008-03-13 20:22:49 : THIS IS NOT A 50.
From L. E. Greys at 2008-03-14 00:49:01 : This is certainly not a 50, it's a Super Deltic. Two Deltic power units with turbos, giving 4,600hp. To misquote G. J. Churchward, one of these could pull two b***** Hoovers backwards! Dreadful!