0185 - Photo: Jon Stubley.

55022 (D9000) "ROYAL SCOTS GREY" emerges from Gasworks Tunnel on the 1st September 1981 with the 1A15 10:30 Newcastle - King's Cross service, a train comprising of Mk I coaches due to a shortage of HST units for the diagram. 55008 (D9008) "THE GREEN HOWARDS" (the only other Deltic at this time retaining disc headcodes) has just been released from the stock of the 1A13 09:36 Hull - King's Cross service.

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