Happy New Year to all.

Volunteer Operations restart on Sat 2nd January, yes it really was 28 years ago.

All welcome, old and new volunteers.

Continuing work on 15's rebuild and soon to start on winter maintenance on 9 & 19. Plus ongoing work on the coach.
Help also needed with the museum area and the stores but Nigel is away for the next 2 weeks.
Please contact Mike Hallam-Rudd - vloATthedps.co.uk if you wish to give us some time.

Notice to ALL, starting Friday 21st March until Sunday 30th March there will be working activities in the depot every day. If you would like to come along and join in, wether it be to help progress 15 or prepare 9 & 19 for their summer events. Or, even just to be there see what is going of with a view to getting involved or even talking to visitors and taking their hard earned cash on sales or membership then please contact Mike Hallam-Rudd Volunteer Liaison Officer via the link on this site.

A quick reminder that the Baby Deltic Project gallery has been updated to show the work being undertaken - including a major cleaning operation which has been carried out. Click HERE to visit the page.

All three of the society's locos are now back in the depot. D9009 is due to be shunted onto Number 2 road, before Sat 15th Dec. This is so it will be under the lifting frame to enable the nose end equipment to be lifted out to gain access to the air tanks which are due to go away for testing and certification.

Work is continuing on D9015's rebuild. Work is due to start soon on the winter maintainence programme on 55019.

If you wish to come along and help please contact Mike Hallam-Rudd Volunteer liasion Officer at vloATthedps.co.uk (replace AT with @ )

Mike Hallam-Rudd

Visitors to the DPS depot during the Barrow Hill Diesel Event on July 14th/15th were surprised to find two steam locos stabled in the depot! 60532 Blue Peter, which ran on the East Coast Main Line alongside the Deltics in the 1960s, and 506 Butler-Henderson, were placed inside the depot to make space in the roundhouse and yard for the Class 20 event. These were the first steam locos to visit the DPS depot - rumours that a Deltic power unit is being fitted in the tender of Blue Peter are untrue!

A new point has been installed at Barrow Hill to provide future access to the DPS depot.

One of our locomotives which very rarely been used over recent years was given the chance to blow out the cobwebs at the weekend with a high speed run on the mainline.

For further details, please visit the updated Trainz ECML update page.

A new gallery has been created showing recent power unit moves and DPSCS power unit work. Click HERE go to the gallery

The depot has recently been shunted to re-position the locos for ongoing work. This saw both 55 015 and 55 022 appear outside for a short time. Click HERE go to the gallery

The society is looking for up to approximately 40 steel storage stillages (cheap or preferably free!) if anyone knows of a supply or anyone disposing of any can they please let the engineer know by e-mailing engineerATthedps.co.uk (replacing AT with @ - spamtrapped)