D9006 pauses at Dunbar on July 17, 1961.

In summer 1961 I was taken on a touring holiday to Scotland by my dear Aunty May and Uncle Wilfred, a few months after the death of my father. We spent a couple of days in Edinburgh and, not entirely to their surprise, Waverley station and Haymarket shed were chosen rather than visits to the castle or Holyrood House.

The second picture I ever took of a Deltic was of D9000 coming through Princes Street Gardens on the approach to Waverley station with the stock of the morning up ‘Talisman’ on July 17, 1961, shortly after which I photographed an A4 waiting to leave on the non-stop ‘Elizabethan’.

I then had a trip to Dunbar, where I took my third picture of a Deltic. A still un-named D9006 had stopped briefly, heading the 07.30 Aberdeen to London King’s Cross, which it had taken over at Edinburgh Waverley for the run to King’s Cross. When this picture was taken, D9006 had been in traffic for less than three weeks and was one of only nine Deltics in service at the time. After the remaining Deltics were delivered, in June 1962, the full Deltic timetable was introduced, with considerable improvements to the East Coast schedules.