Saddleback
Number: 60048
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 02/91
Date removed: 09/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain in Cumbria near Keswick
Notes:
S
NR
Royal Mail Scotland
Date applied: 31/05/94
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: The first of the Res ‘Saint’ theme names after
the Patron Saint of Scotland. Unveiled to launch ‘The
Capitals Mail’
Notes: Previously named ‘Cyclops’
Saint Augustine
Saint Aidan
Number: 47535
NR
Location: Sheffield station
Named by: Terry Furness, Postman at Sheffield station
Date applied: 15/09/95 Date removed: 07/97
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ theme
Notes: Originally scheduled to be named on 07/09/95.
Previously named ‘University of Leicester’
Number: 47793
NR
Location: Newcastle Central station
Named by: The Most Reverend David Hope, Archbishop
of York
Date applied: 24/06/96
Style: Standard Res, C/O/A above
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ theme Unveiled to mark the 1,400th anniversary in 1997 of the
death of Saint Columba on Iona and the arrival of Saint
Augustine at Canterbury
Notes: Originally planned for application at Res/Royal
Mail Tonbridge. Joint ceremony with ‘Saint Columba’
Saint Andrew
Number: 47701
SN
Location: Haymarket depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 01/79
Date removed: 10/90
Style: Standard, Saltier C/O/A unveiled at Edinburgh
Waverley by Lord Wemyss on 30/11/85 (Cast by NR)
Meaning: One of the 12 disciples of Jesus. Patron Saint
of Scotland. One of a series of names selected to reflect a
Scottish theme for locos used on Edinburgh-Glasgow route
Notes: Name reused by Res on 47624
Saint Bede
Number: 47721
NR
Location: York station
Named by: Mick Hawksby, Royal Mail North East
‘Railnet’ team
Date applied: 30/05/95
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ theme
Notes: Should have been unveiled in a ceremony at
York on 02/05/95 but called off due to industrial action
at Newcastle within Royal Mail. Plates were however
already fitted on 01/05/95 and remained on loco
sometimes covered sometimes not, until proper naming
Number: 47624
NR
Location: Kings Cross station
Named by: Roy McLennan, Distribution Director of
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Saint Blaise Church
1445-1995
Number: 37674
NR
Location: St Blazey depot
Named by: Uny Bowers (9), son of Reverend Malcolm
Bowers, vicar of St Blaise Church
Date applied: 21/12/95
Style: Standard
Meaning: A Transrail community naming to mark the
550th anniversary of Saint Blaise Church, near St Blazey
Notes:
Saint Chad of Lichfield
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47.
Scheduled for application at Derby in mid-1996 but called
off following sale of company to EWS. Not cast
Saint Christopher
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47or
NR
86. Scheduled for unveiling at Ipswich or Norwich in
1996 but called off following sale of company to EWS. cast
Saint Columba
Number: 47767
NR
Location: Newcastle Central Station
Named by: Right Reverend John McIndoe, Moderator of
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Date applied: 25/06/96
Style: Standard Res, C/O/A above
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ theme Unveiled to mark the 1,400th anniversary in 1997 of the
death of Saint Columba on Iona and the arrival of Saint
Augustine at Canterbury
Notes: Originally planned for application to Class 86 at
opening of the Royal Mail ‘hub’ at Schieldmuir, Scotland.
Joint ceremony with ‘Saint Augustine’. Previously named
‘Fife Region’ as 47641
Number: 156449
NR*
Location: Oban Station
Named by: John Wilson, Convenor, Argyll & Bute Council
Date applied: 06/12/97
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Style: Special
Meaning: See previous entry
Notes: Originally planned for application to 156462 Name
also applied to 47767
Saint Cuthbert
Number: 47702
SN
Location: Haymarket depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 03/79
Date removed: 01/94
Style: Standard
Meaning: A former bishop of Lindisfarne
Notes: Reapplied to 47792. Renamed ‘County of Suffolk’
Number: 47792
NR
Location: Darlington station
Named by: Brian Robinson, District Manager for Royal
Mail, Darlington
Date applied: 23/05/95
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ names
Notes: Previously named ‘Kettering’ as 47804. This name
previously carried by 47702 - see previous entry
Saint David - Dewi Sant
Number: 47600
SN
Location: Fishguard Harbour station
Named by: Mr P B Happe, Director, Ferries Division,
Sealink
Date applied: 19/07/85 Date removed: 05/91
Style: Standard. GW150 plate below
Meaning: Named after the Patron Saint of Wales
Notes: GW150 naming sponsored by Sealink. Loco
hauled VSOE Pullmans to Fishguard for event. Reverse
layout on other side of loco. Renamed ‘Saint Edwin’.
Name reeapplied to 47790
Dr Glyn Williams, Managing Director of BR Freight
Group and Res Managing Director Charles Belcher
stand by the nameplate ‘Saint David Dewi Sant’ at
Swansea on 1 March 1995. CJM
Number: 47790
NR
Location: Swansea High Street station
Named by: Dr Glyn Williams, Managing Director of BR
Freight Group
Date applied: 01/03/95
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ naming series.
See above
Notes: Named on Saint David’s day. Both sides have
the English spelling first. Previously named ‘Galloway
Princess as 47593 and ‘York InterCity Control’ as 47673
Saint Edmund
Number: 86430
NR
Location: Ipswich Wagon Repair Depot
Named by: Cllr William Cownley, Mayor of Saint
Edmundsbury
Date applied: 15/06/96
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ naming series
Notes: Previously named ‘Scottish National Orchestra’
Saint Edward the Confessor
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47.
Scheduled for application at Liverpool Street in mid-1996
but called off following sale of company to EWS. Not cast
SAINT-DIE-DES-VOSGES
Name carried by SNCF 222xx No. 22402. Loco used
through Channel Tunnel and operated by RfD from start
of service until October 1995
Saint George
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47.
NR
Scheduled for application on Saint Georges Day,
23 April 1996, but called off - then planned for unveiling
at Doncaster on 23/04/97 - called off. Cast 10/95
Saint Edwin
Number: 47744
NR
Location: Leeds City station
Named by: David Kennedy, Director of Processing, Royal
Mail North-East
Date applied: 01/03/95 Date removed: 09/97
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ naming series.
Named after the first Christian King of Northumbria
Notes: Previously named ‘Saint David/Dewi Sant’ as
47600. Renamed ‘The Cornish Experience’
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Saint Hilda of Whitby
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47.
Scheduled for application at York in mid-1996 but called
off following sale of company to EWS. Not cast
Location: Newcastle Central station
Named by: Alec Graham, Lord Bishop of Newcastle
Date applied: 05/12/92 Date removed: 03/96
Style: Standard. C/O/A above
Meaning: To mark the 900th anniversary of Newcastle
Cathedral, named after the Patron Saint of Children
Notes: Renamed ‘The Samaritans’
Saint Margaret
Number: 37201
NR
Location: Dunfirmline station
Named by: The Countess of Elgin and Kincardineshire
Date applied: 16/11/93 Date removed: 05/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: To mark the 900th anniversary celebrations of
Saint Margaret, who died in 1093
Notes:
Saint Ninian
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47 or 86.
Scheduled for application at Carlisle in mid-1996 but
called off following sale of company to EWS. Not cast
Saint Oswald
Saint Mungo
Number: 47703
SN
Location: Haymarket
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 03/79
Date removed: 11/90
Style: Standard
Meaning: A Scottish saint who is regarded as the patron
saint of Glasgow
Notes: Renamed ‘The Queen Mother’
Number: 86425
NR
Location: Glasgow Central station
Named by: Jim Ferns, Area Distribution Manager Royal
Mail Glasgow
Date applied: 02/05/95
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: See above
Notes: Name previously carried by 47703
Saint Nicholas
Number: 91009
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NR
Name allocated by Res for application to Class 47.
Scheduled for application on 06/05/96 at Low Fell Res
station to mark first anniversary of opening, but called off
following sale of company to EWS. Not cast
Saint Peter
Number: 47783
NR
Location: National Railway Museum, York
Named by: David Rayner, Director of Safety, Railtrack
Date applied: 29/06/95
Style: Standard Res
Meaning: Continuation of the Res ‘Saint’ naming series
Notes: Previously named ‘Finsbury Park’
Saint Saëns
Number: 92028
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 03/95
Style: Transfer
Meaning: Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) ,
French composer and author
Notes:
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Number: 20118
Location: Saltburn station
Named by: Cllr Neil Loughran, Mayor of Saltburn
Date applied: 13/08/87 Date removed: 08/90
Style: Standard
Meaning: Twinning of town with Railfreight
Notes: Joint naming with ‘Henry Pease’
SAMARIA
Number: D228 / 40028
C
Location: Crewe Works
Named by: Applied without ceremony
Date applied: 09/62
Date removed: C 1972
Style: Design for class incorporating central C/O/A
Meaning: A region in ancient Palestine between Judaea
and Galilee. Named to twin with 19,848 ton Cunard liner
Notes:
Sam Fay
NR
Saltley Depot
Allocated to 60064 in early 1992, after the Great Central
Railway General Manager, idea dropped and name not cast
SAMSON
Number: D1674 / 47088 / 47653 / 47808
NR SN
Location: Cardiff Canton depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 09/65
Date removed: 05/93
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Series naming of a batch of WR allocated
Type 4s. One of the judges of Israel who was famous for
his strength, he believed his power lay in his uncut hair.
When this was cut he lost his great strength
Notes: One plate missing by 09/78. Off between 02/85
and 06/92. Standard plates also cast by NR - not fitted.
Became ‘Isle of Iona’ as 47781
Quality Approved
Number: 47326
NR
Location: Saltley Depot
Named by: Mick Merrill, fitter and John Partington driver
from depot
Date applied: 09/12/94
Style: Standard, depot C/O/A above
Meaning: Named in honour of depot which has played a
major part in the traction requirements for RfD traffic
Notes:
Samuel Johnson
Number: 60062
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built (see notes)
Date applied: 06/91
NR
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Style: Standard
Meaning: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Poet, critic and
dictionary writer
Notes: Official naming held at Lichfield Trent Valley
station on 20/06/91, unveiled by John Wilson of the
Johnson Society
‘without equal’ originally a steam locomotive which
took part in the Rainhill Trials. Named to commemorate
the 150th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway
Notes: Originally shown as one word - see above
Save the Children Special
Number: 319036 car No. 71807
LOCAL
Location: Blackfriars station
Named by: The Princess Royal
Date applied: 25/04/88 Date removed: 05/88
Style: Special (sticker)
Meaning: Unveiled at formal opening of Thameslink, which
was also the start of the 1988 Save the Children Week
Notes:
Samuel Plimsoll
Number: 60059
NR
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 04/91
Date removed: 05/95
Style: Standard
Meaning: Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) Social reformer
known as the sailors friend. Created the Plimsoll line on
ships to show loading level
Notes: Renamed ‘Swinden Dalesman’
Sanspareil
This name originally shown on LMR name list dated
06/78, as one word. Amended to two words by 11/78. See
next entry
Sans Pareil
Number: 86214
SN
Location: Willesden depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 17/04/80
Style: Standard
Meaning: Re-use of historic steam loco name. Literally
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SAXONIA
Number: D229 / 40029
C
Location: Crewe Works
Named by: Applied without ceremony
Date applied: 03/63
Date removed: C 1971
Style: Special design for class incorporating central C/O/A
Meaning: Roman name for Saxony - named to twin with
21,367 ton Cunard liner
Notes:
Scafell
Number: 60049
NR
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 03/91
Date removed: 12/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: The highest peak in England at 3210ft. Situated
in the Lake District near Wast Water
Notes:
Still not applied in 02/98, although RfD claim name is
to be applied. Johann Christophr Friedrich Von Schiller
(1759-1805), German dramatist and poet
Schubert
Number: 92007
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 05/94
Style: Transfer
Meaning: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Austrian composer
Notes:
SCAFELL PIKE
Number: D1 / 44001
D
Location: Carlisle station
Named by: Sir Fergus Graham, Lord Lieutenant of
Cumberland
Date applied: 14/07/59* Date removed: W10/76
Style: Class design
Meaning: The highest peak in England at 3210ft. Situated
in the Lake District near Wast Water
Notes: * applied at Derby Works 15/04/59
Scafell Pike
Originally planned for application to Class 86 No.
86246 on first list, then to 86245 - cast, not applied
Schiehallion
Number: 60086
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 11/91
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain in Grampian Range, near Loch
Rannoch
Notes:
Schiller
Scottish & Newcastle
Name cast mid-1995 for application to Class 91,
to twin ECML with brewery, naming cancelled as
company name changed to Scottish Courage
NR
SCOTTISH
SN
NR
Name allocated to Class 92 No. 92031 by RfD on original
list. When loco finished at Brush, name was not applied.
CLAYMORES
Number: 158701, car 52701 only
Location: Glasgow Queen Street station
Named by: John Ellis, Managing Director, ScotRail
Date applied: 18/07/96
Style: Special, front end mounted
Meaning: Twinning of ScotRail with Scottish American
Football team, ‘Scottish Claymores’, who reached the
1996 world bowl championship
Notes: An
American football
helmet logo is
carried in the
nameplate position
on car 57701
Scottish Enterprise
Number: 91019
DP
Location: Edinburgh Waverley station
Named by: Malcolm Rifkind MP, Secretary of State for
Scotland
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Date applied: 12/09/90 Date removed: 10/96
Style: Reflective with silver ground
Meaning: To mark the switch on of power at Edinburgh
for the ECML electrification, and to mark the first Class
91 to visit the City
Notes: After unveiling, loco was piloted on press special
from Edinburgh to Drem with Mk4 set by Class 47 No.
47837. Reflective plates removed when loco repainted in
GNER blue livery, see below
British Steel logo and branding applied to 60006/033
Scunthorpe Steel Centenary
Number: 91019
Location: Bounds Green depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 20/10/96
Style: GNER painted
Meaning: See above
Notes: Replacement plate for loco painted in GNER livery
Number: 56102
NR
Location: British Steel Scunthorpe
Named by: William Clarkson and four members of his
family who were descendants of Maximillian Mannaberg
the man who first made steel in Scunthorpe
Date applied: 19/03/90 Date removed: 09/95
Style: Standard, incorporating BSC logo, C/O/A above
Meaning: To mark the centenary of steel production at
Scunthorpe
Notes:
Scottish National Orchestra
Number: 86430
Location: Glasgow Central station
Named by: Dr John Prideaux, Director of InterCity
Date applied: 23/06/87 Date removed: 11/91
Style: Standard
Meaning: Twinning of InterCity with Orchestra
Notes: Renamed ‘Saint Edmund’
NR
Scunthorpe Ironmaster
Number: 60006
PC
Location: Frodingham platform, BSC
Named by: Brian Higgins, winner of staff competition
Date applied: 17/07/97
Style: Standard EWS
Meaning: Twinning of EWS with British Steel
Notes: Loco painted in British Steel blue for event, joint
ceremony with ‘Tees Steel Express’. Previously named
‘Great Gable’
Trainload Freight honoured the steelmaking industry in
Scunthorpe on 19 March 1990, when ex-works Class 56
No. 56102 was named ‘Scunthorpe Steel Centenary’.
The unveiling was carried out by William Clarkson
and members of the Maximillian Mannaberg family of
the USA, ancestors of the man who first made steel at
Scunthorpe in 1890. CJM
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SCYTHIA
Number: D230 / 40030
C
Location: Derby Works
Named by: Applied without ceremony
Date applied: 04/61
Date removed: C 1972
Style: Design for class incorporating central C/O/A
Meaning: An ancient region found in southeast Europe
north of the Black Sea - Named to twin with 19,730 ton
Cunard liner
Notes:
Seafire
Number: 33026
NR
Location: Eastleigh depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 09/08/91 Date removed: 31/01/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: One of 10 aeronautic names selected by
competition for application to Eastleigh allocated Civil
Engineers Class 33s
Notes:
Seagull
Number: 33057
NR
Location: Eastleigh depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 06/09/91 Date removed: 09/10/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: One of 10 aeronautic names selected by
competition for application to Eastleigh allocated Civil
Engineers Class 33s
Notes:
Seahawk
Number: 43191
DP
Location: Penzance station
Named by: Captain Paul Bootherstone, Commanding
Officer of RNAS Culdrose
Date applied: 12/10/88
Style: Reflective with silver ground
Meaning: Named after the RNAS base
Notes: Captain Bootherstone arrived at Penzance by being
winched down from an RNAS helicopter. IC125 arrived
on special from Truro after naming of ‘City of Truro’.
Events deemed as ‘Cornish awareness of BR’. NR also
cast a pair of standard plates for this event
Sea King
Number: 33002
NR
Location: Eastleigh depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 06/11/91 Date removed: 07/10/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: One of 10 aeronautic names selected by
competition for application to Eastleigh allocated Civil
Engineers Class 33s
Notes:
Sealion
Number: 33065
NR
Location: Eastleigh depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 16/08/91 Date removed: 07/10/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: One of 10 aeronautic names selected by
competition for application to Eastleigh allocated Civil
Engineers Class 33s
Notes:
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After the naming of
Trainload Coal Class
56 No. 56080 ‘Selby
Coalfield’, presentations
were made by both
Trainload Freight and
British Coal. Julian Worth,
the Coal Business manager
was presented with an
engraved miners lamp,
while Albert Tuke, British
Coal North Yorkshire Area
Director was presented
with a model of the loco
and a full size replica
nameplate. CJM
Second East Anglian
Regiment
Number: D6704
D
Location: Stratford depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 04/63 - covered
Date removed: 05/63
Style: Special
Meaning: Planned twinning of railways with Regiment
Notes: One of three names allocated, First, Second and
Third East Anglian Regiment. Not unveiled as the three
were amalgamated by the time unveiling due
Selhurst
Number: 73116 / 73210
SU
Location: Selhurst Level 4 depot
Named by: Right Honourable John Moore, Secretary of
State for Transport
Date applied: 09/09/86
Style: Standard
Meaning: To mark the opening of new Level 4 depot
facility at Selhurst depot
Notes:
Selby Coalfield
Number: 56080
NR
Location: Gascoigne Wood Pit
Named by: Albert Tuke, British Coal North Yorkshire
Area Director
Date applied: 30/10/89
Style: Standard, British Coal logo on plate
Meaning: To cement the relationship between British
Coal, National Power and Railfreight at the official launch
of the new Selby Coalfield
Notes:
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Severn
Number: 47513
Location: Old Oak Common depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 14/03/79
SN
Style: Standard
Meaning: English river, rising in Powys and flowing into
the Bristol Channel
Notes:
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 09/94
Style: Transfer
Meaning: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Poet
Notes:
Severn Valley Railway
Number: 31413
NR
Location: Bewdley station, SVR
Named by: Jointly by Sid Newey, Director of Provincial
Services BR and Michael Draper General Manager SVR
Date applied: 22/04/88 Date removed: 04/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: Twinning of BR with light railway to launch
through ticketing
Notes: Originally planned for 31415. Transferred to 31233
Number: 31233
Location: Crewe Diesel depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 05/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
Notes: Reapplied to this loco due to condition of 31413.
Previously named ‘Phillips-Imperial’. Transferred from
31413
Sgurr Na Ciche
Number: 60036
Location: Brush Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 08/90
Date removed: 08/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain by Loch Nevis
Notes:
Shakespeare
Number: 92017
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Shakespeare Cliff
Number: 33051
NR
Location: Isle of Grain TML Terminal
Named by: Colin Driver, Director of Railfreight
Date applied: 16/05/88
Style: Standard, TML logo above (later removed)
Meaning: Twinning of one of a pair of locos with
construction of the Channel Tunnel. Unveiled at TML/
Railfreight signing ceremony
Notes: Joint naming with ‘Isle of Grain’
Shapfell
NR
Number: 37320 / 37026
NR
Location: Motherwell depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 23/07/86 Date removed: 09/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: One of a series of steel associated names
applied to Motherwell Class 37/3s dedicated to steel flows
Notes:
SHARPSHOOTER
Number: D843
Location: NBL Glasgow
SN
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Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 01/61
Date removed: W05/71
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after Royal Navy ship of same name
Notes:
Sheffield Childrens Hospital
Number: 09008
NR
Location: Tinsley depot
Named by: Nerys Owen, Matron of Childrens Hospital
Date applied: 29/09/90 (open day) Date removed: 09/93
Style: Standard half size letters
Meaning: Twinning of hospital with Tinsley depot who
raised many funds for the hospital
Notes: Reapplied to 08879
Number: 08879
Location: Tinsley depot
Named by: Richard Jeavans, Committee member of
Sheffield Childrens Hospital
Date applied: 27/04/96 (open day)
Style: See above
Meaning: See above
Notes: Previously carried by 09008
Sheffield Star
Number: 43055
NR
Location: Sheffield station
Named by: Joe Baker ‘super citizen’ of Sheffield who
raised over £12,000 for local charity
Date applied: 20/11/93
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: Twinning of Midland Main Line with Sheffield
newspaper and star citizen
Notes:
Sheila
Pullman car - Parlour, built 1928 - Loco hauled
SHERWOOD FORESTER
Number: D100 / 45060
D
Location: Derby station
Named by: Major General C B Fairbanks CD, CBL
Date applied: 23/09/61 Date removed: W12/85
Style: Design for class incorporating C/O/A of regiment
Meaning: A regiment formed in 1881. In 1970 it was
amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to form
the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
Notes:
Shildon County Durham
Shildon, County Durham
Number: 43078
NR DP
Location: BREL Shildon Works
Named by: Frank Paterson, General Manager of Eastern
Region
Date applied: 24/09/83 Date removed: 06/96
Style: Standard IC125 incorporating C/O/A, changed
03/93 to reflective with silver ground, C/O/A above
Meaning: To mark the 150th anniversary of Shildon
Works, and the town’s close association with railways
Notes: Off between 06/90 and 03/93. Reflective plate has
a comma after Shildon. Renamed ‘Golowan Festival
Penzance’
Shining Tor
Number: 60083
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 03/92
Date removed: 02/97
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NR
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain 1,833ft, in Peak District, 4 miles west
of Buxton
Notes: Name originally allocated to 60096
Shirebrook Colliery
Number: 58019
NR
Location: Shirebrook Colliery
Named by: Ian Braybrook, Acting National Business
Manager for Trainload Coal
Date applied: 01/10/89
Style: Standard, British Coal logo on plate
Meaning: Twinning of Trainload Coal with colliery
Notes:
Shotton Paper Mill
Number: 56033
AC
Location: Chester Wagon Depot
Named by: Martin Gale, Raw Materials Manager, Shotton
Paper Mill
Date applied: 18/12/95
Style: Standard, Company logo on plate
Meaning: To mark a new 5 year contract between
Transrail and Shotton Paper Mill to transport raw
materials by rail
Notes:
Number: 60017
Location: Shotton Steel Works
Named by: Marjory Toye, wife of plant Personnel
Silverwood Colliery
Proposed for fitting to No. 56001 in 1978 - not cast
SIR ALF RAMSEY
Number: 150227 car No. 57227
Location: Ipswich station
Named by: Paul Roberts (12) and Sir Alf Ramsey
Date applied: 26/08/94
Style: Anglia Railways pictogram plate
Meaning: Series naming
of Anglia Sprinters,
names selected from joint
BBC/Anglia Railways
competition - Sir Alf
Ramsey Manager of the
1966 England World Cup
team
Notes:
PC
DP
SIR BRIAN ROBERTSON
Number: D800
SN
Location: Paddington station *
Named by: K W C Grand, General Manager WR Board
Date applied: 14/07/58 Date removed: W10/68
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Chairman of the British Transport Commission
from 1953 to 1961
Notes: * Name applied when released from Swindon
Works a few days prior to official ceremony
Sir Charles Hallé
Shotton Works
Centenary Year 1996
Manager, Gerry Toye
Date applied: 08/11/96
Style: Standard, British Steel logo on plate
Meaning: To mark the centenary of BSC Shotton Works
Notes: Previously named ‘Arenig Fawr’
Number: 86237
Location: Manchester Piccadilly station
Named by: Cllr Dr Michael Taylor, Lord Mayor of
Manchester
Date applied: 29/11/83 Date removed: 06/93
SN
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Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir Charles Hallé (1819-1895) British conductor
who in 1858 founded the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.
Unveiled to mark 125th anniversary of orchestra
Notes: Originally allocated the name ‘Arrow’ - not cast.
The name ‘Hallé Orchestra’ was originally planned.
‘Sir Charles Hallé’ planned for a Class 47. Renamed
‘University of East Anglia’
Sir Charles Hallé
Number: Mk2 Pullman PFK M501
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 29/09/83 Date removed: W05/85
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - see above
Notes: Name also carried by 86237
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Number: 20187
NR
Location: Pickering station, NYMR
Named by: Cllr Gaynor DeBarr, former Mayor of Pickering
Date applied: 28/05/94 Date removed: 07/97
Style: Standard BRT
Meaning: Continuation of the theme of names for BRT
locos reflecting Telecommunications - Wheatstone born
in 1802 was the first
to determine velocity
of electric waves in
metallic conductors
Notes: Joint ceremony
with ‘Sir William
Cooke’
Sir Cosmo Bonsor
Number: 456024 car No. 78273
NR*
Location: Kingswood station
Named by: Sir Nicholas Bonsor
Date applied: 02/11/97
Style: Standard Connex
Meaning: Named after Cosmo Bonsor, one of the
promoters of the Purley-Tattenham Corner line and
later Chairman of the South Eastern Railway. Unveiled
at 150th anniversary celebrations of Chipstead Valley
Railway
Notes: First Class 456 to be named
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Sir Cliff Richard
Name allocated to Rail Charter Services Class 47/7 No.
47710 - not cast
Sir Clwyd
County of Clwyd
See ‘County of Clwyd’
SIR DANIEL GOOCH
Number: D1663 / 47078 / 47628
SN SN
Location: Paddington station
Named by: Sidney Green, General Secretary of NUR
Date applied: 08/05/65 Date removed: 12/89
Style: Originally 1950s WR. Removed 01/85 changed on
16/05/85 to GWR brass design for GW150, C/O/A below
Meaning: Named after Sir Daniel Gooch (1817-1889)
First locomotive superintendent of the GWR from 1837
to 1864
Notes:
Sir De Morgannwg
County of South Glamorgan
See ‘County of South Glamorgan’
Sir Dyfed
County of Dyfed
See ‘County of Dyfed’
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Number: 50007
Location: Paddington station
Named by: Simon Rattle, Principal conductor of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
SN
Date applied: 25/02/84 Date removed: Remained in
preservation
Style: Mock GWR 1940s style, C/O/A below
Meaning: Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), English
composer. Unveiled to mark the 50th anniversary of his
death
Notes: Previously named ‘Hercules’
Number: 43186
DP
Location: Plymouth station
Named by: Commodore James Carine, from HMS Drake
Date applied: 12/07/88
Style: Reflective with black ground
Meaning: See above. Unveiled as part of the ‘Armada
400’ events in Plymouth
Notes: Name previously used on 87016 - different style
Sir Felix Pole
Number: 43131
SN DP
Location: Bristol St Philips Marsh depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 23/08/85
Style: Standard IC125, changed 06/94 to reflective with
silver ground
Meaning: Named after the GWR General Manager 1921-29
Notes: This name was scheduled for unveiling at Swindon
as part of the GW150 events on 31/07/85, called off after
it was announced that the works was to close. A further
naming ceremony was planned for 23/08/85 at Strood
but this was called off due to a one day rail strike. Off
between 11/87 and 06/94
Sir Gorllewin Morgannwg
County of West Glamorgan
See ‘County of West Glamorgan’
County of Gwynedd
Sir Gwynedd
See ‘County of Gwynedd’
Sir Francis Drake
Number: 87016
SN
Location: Willesden depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 28/04/78 Date removed: 06/88
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir Francis Drake (C1540-1596) The first sailor
to circumnavigate the world, in the ship ‘Golden Hind’
Notes: Renamed ‘Willesden Intercity Depot’. Name
reused on 43186 - different style
Sir Henry Doulton 1820-1897
Number: Mk3 DVT 82134
NR*
Location: Euston station
Named by: Michael Doulton, member of Doulton family
Date applied: 04/02/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir Henry Doulton (1820-1897) Founder of the
Doulton china company of Stoke on Trent. Unveiled to
mark the centenary of his death
Notes:
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Sir Henry Johnson
Number: 86227
SN
Location: Euston station
Named by: Sir Henry Johnson
Date applied: 30/03/81
Style: Standard
Meaning: General Manager of the LM 1962-67, Chairman
of the BRB 1968-71
Notes: Originally allocated the name ‘Lady of the Lake’.
This name originally allocated to 86231
Royce and BR (BREL) Crewe
Notes: Loco given laurel wreath plaque in 07/95 to
commemorate its powering of the fastest passenger train
in England ‘91031 On 2nd June 1995 this locomotive
powered the UKs fastest passenger train which
attained a speed of
NR
154mph’
Sir Henry Royce
Number: 91031
DP
Location: Crewe Heritage Centre
Named by: Frank Shan, Chairman of Sir Henry Royce
Memorial Foundation and Gordon Virgo 4th year
apprentice electrician at Bounds Green depot
Date applied: 07/06/91 Date removed: 02/97
Style: Reflective with silver ground, C/O/A above
Meaning: Twinning of engineering excellence of Rolls
The man given
the job of
returning No.
73003 to near
original livery
was the then
Depot Engineer
at Selhurst,
Tony Francis.
Tony, a life long
enthusiast of the
class, is seen
holding one of
the nameplates
in front of the
loco outside
Selhurst depot
just prior to
fitting. CJM
Sir Herbert Walker
Number: 73003 / E6003
NR
Location: Selhurst Level 5 depot
Named by: Nick Owen, ITV news reader and a founder
member of the Southern Electric Group
Date applied: 31/03/93 Date removed: W10/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named after the first General manager of the
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Southern Railway. Unveiled to mark the closure of the
Selhurst Level 5 facility by Level 5 Group
Notes: Loco returned to 1960s livery and renumbered to
E6003 for closure ceremony and naming. When named no
yellow end was applied
Sir Humphrey Chetham
Number: Mk2 Pullman PFB M581
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 29/09/83 Date removed: W06/85
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - Sir Humphrey
Chetham (1580-1653), founder of Chetham School
Notes:
Sir Jimmy Savile
Name allocated to Rail Charter Services Class 47/7 No.
47712 - not cast
Sir John Barbirolli
Number: Mk2 Pullman PFP M553
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 29/09/83 Date removed: 02/86
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - Sir John
Barbirolli (1899-1970) conductor of the Hallé Orchestra
Notes: Renamed ‘Crummock Water’ Name reused on
11085
Sir John Brunner
Number: Mk3b Pullman FO 11088
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: C 1985
Date removed: 02/90
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - Sir John
Brunner, founder of Brunner & Mond chemicals now part
of ICI
Notes:
Sir John de Graeme
Number: 47636
NR
Location: Falkirk Grahamston station
Named by: Cllr James Anderson, Convenor of Central
Regional Council
Date applied: 28/04/86 Date removed: 01/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named after the Scottish Patriot who fought
alongside Sir William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk in
1298 - Unveiled at the opening of new station facilities
at Falkirk
Notes: Later renamed ‘Restored’
Number: Mk3 Pullman FO 11085
Location: Willesden CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 11/86
Date removed: C 01/90
Style: Painted
Meaning: See above
Notes: Previously carried by M553
Sir John Betjeman
Number: 86229
SN
Location: St Pancras station
Named by: Sir John Betjeman
Date applied: 24/06/83
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) English author
and poet, became the Poet Laureate in 1972
Notes: This name was allocated in 12/80. In 02/81 the
naming was due to take place on 24/04/81 at Euston prior
to hauling the 12.40 to Wolverhampton. Betjeman refused
to have anything to do with Euston and the event was
called-off until a suitable station could be found. After
naming, powered ‘Pullman’ special to Bedford and return,
first electric loco hauled service from St Pancras
Sir Joseph Whitworth
Number: Mk2 Pullman PFK M502
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 10/83
Date removed: W06/85
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - Sir John
Whitworth (1803-1887), engineer and founder of
Whitworths, later part of Armstrong and Whitworth
Notes:
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Number: 47559
SN
Location: Plymouth Laira depot
Named by: Winner of local depot competition
Date applied: 25/04/82 (open day) Date removed 01/92
Style: Standard
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Meaning: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) English
portrait painter with southwest England connections who
became the first President of the Royal Academy in 1768
Notes:
Sir Michael Heron
Number: 90020
PC
Location: The Princess Royal Distribution Centre,
Willesden
Named by: Sir Michael Heron, Chairman of The Post Office
Date applied: 21/05/97
Style: Special
Meaning: Named to mark the opening of the Royal Mail
Princess Royal Distribution Centre. Sir Michael was told
the name read ‘The Willesden Flyer’
Notes: First Class 90 in full EWS livery. Previously
named ‘Colonel Bill Cockburn CBE TD’
Sir Morgannwg Ganol
County of Mid Glamorgan
See ‘County of Mid Glamorgan
Sir Murray Morrison
1873-1948
Pioneer of the British Aluminium Industry
Number: 37423
NR
Location: British Alcan Lochaber Smelter at Fort
William
Named by: David Mitchell, Transport Minister
Date applied: 18/05/88
Style: Special based on standard
Meaning: To mark the opening of a new £2.4m aluminium
terminal and the signing of a 10 year contract to move
Alumina by rail from Blyth
Notes: At time largest plate with 62 letters
Sir Powys
County of Powis
See ‘County of Powis’
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Sir Richard Arkwright
Number: 87026
SN
Location: Preston station
Named by: The Duke of Devonshire, President of The
Arkwright Society
Date applied: 12/10/82
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) 18th
century British inventor of the spinning frame. Mill owner
Notes: Previously named ‘Redgauntlet’. Name also used
on ‘Pullman’ cars M500 and 11077
Sir Richard Arkwright
Number: Mk2 Pullman PFK M500
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 29/09/83 Date removed: W1985
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - See above
Notes: Reapplied to Mk3 Pullman in 1986. Name also
carried by 87026
Number: Mk3 Pullman FO 11077
Location: Willesden CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 05/86
Date removed: C1990
Style: Painted
Meaning: See above
Notes: Name also carried by 87026
Sir Robert McAlpine
(Concrete Bob)
Number: 37425
NR
Location: Fort William station
Named by: Sir William McAlpine
Date applied: 14/10/86
Style: Standard, different wording on each side of loco
(other side reads - ‘Concrete Bob’)
Meaning: In tribute to Sir William McAlpine’s great
grandfather who built the West Highland Railway in the
1890s
Notes: The plate on the other side of the loco,‘Concrete
Bob’ was unveiled on Glennfinnan Viaduct. See ‘Concrete
Bob’
Sir Rowland Hill
Number: 47474
NR
Location: Kidderminster station SVR
Named by: Peter Howarth, Director of Field Operations,
Royal Mail
Date applied: 01/05/90
Style: Standard
Meaning: To mark the 150th anniversary of the postage
stamp. Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) founder of the
‘Penny Post’, who was born in Kidderminster
Notes: Plates fitted at Crewe in late April
Sir Stanley Matthews
Number: Mk3b Pullman FO 11091
Location: Euston station
Named by: Sir Stanley Matthews
Date applied: 08/11/85 Date removed: 03/90
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - Footballer
Notes:
Sir William A Stanier FRS
Number: 86101
SN
Location: Liverpool Lime Street station
Named by: Michael Stanier, Grandson of Sir William
Date applied: 27/10/78
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir William Stanier (1876-1945) Chief
Mechanical Engineer of the LMS between 1932-1944,
credited with several highly successful steam locomotive
designs
Notes: Names supplied under sponsorship by the North
West branch of the LCGB. Plates fitted several days prior
to naming ceremony
Sir Walter Scott
Number: 47710
SN
Location: Haymarket depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 10/79
Date removed: 10/90
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish romantic
novelist famous for his Waverley novels
Notes: Renamed ‘Capital Radio’s Help a London Child’,
‘Lady Godiva’ and later ‘Quasimodo
Sir William Arrol
Number: 37693
NR
Location: Edinburgh Waverley station
Named by: Sir Robert Reid, Chairman of BRB
Date applied: 23/03/90 Date removed: 07/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: To commemorate the designer of the Forth
Bridge. Unveiled as one of the events to celebrate the
centenary of the bridge. The last official activity to be
performed by Sir Robert Reid in Scotland before retiring
Notes:
Sir William Burrell
Number: 47562 / 47672
SN
Location: Glasgow Central station
Named by: The Princess Royal
Date applied: 19/09/83 Date removed: 04/92
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) Glasgow
philanthropist and art collector ‘Burrell Collection’ is now
in the City of Glasgow museum
Notes: Renamed ‘Restless’
Sir William Cooke
Number: 20075
NR
Location: Pickering station, NYMR
Named by: John Sykes, MP for Scarborough and Vice
President of the NYMR
Date applied: 28/05/94 Date removed: 06/97
Style: Standard BRT
Meaning: Continuation of the theme of names for BRT
locos reflecting Telecommunications - Born 1806, Cooke
Encyclopaedia of Modern Traction Names 235
developed electric telegraph in railway signalling, founder
of the Electric
Telegraph Co in
1846
Notes: Unveiled
in a joint
ceremony with
‘Sir Charles
Wheatstone’
Sister Dora
Number: 31430 / 31530
NR
Location: Bescot depot
Named by: Mrs Ros Parkes, Vice Chairman of Walsall
Health Authority
Date applied: 09/10/88 Date removed: 02/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named after ‘Sister Dora’ Dorothy Wyndlow
Pattison (1832-1878), a nurse who looked after the sick
during a smallpox epidemic in the West Midlands
Notes: Cast number plates applied to both 31/4 and 31/5,
produced by Mouse Castings. Originally plates for this loco
were to have been in brass, rejected
by BRB, transferred to 37116
John Sykes, MP for Scarborough and Vice President of
the NYMR unveils the plate ‘Sir William Cooke’. CJM
Sir William Fairbairn
Number: Mk2 Pullman PFP M543
Location: Euston CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 29/09/83 Date removed: C 1985
Style: Painted
Meaning: Series naming of Pullman cars - Sir William
Fairbairn (1789-1874), mechanical engineer
Notes: Removed when withdrawn, reapplied to 11087
Number: Mk3b Pullman FO 11087
Location: Willesden CS
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 07/87
Date removed: C 1988
Style: Painted
Meaning: See above
Notes: Previously carried by M543
Sir Winston Churchill
Number: 87019
SN
Location: Willesden depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 03/05/78
Style: Standard
Meaning: Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British
soldier, statesman, Prime Minister and author
Notes: Official naming planned but called off
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Number: 37116
Location: Bescot depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 25/02/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
Notes: Previously carried by 31430 (31530)
SKIDDAW
Number: D3 / 44003
Location: BR Derby Works
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 11/05/59 Date removed: W07/76
Style: Class design
Meaning: A mountain peak in the Lake District
Notes: Name reused on 60005
Skiddaw
Number: 60005
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 10/89
Date removed: 12/97
D
NR
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
Note: Name previously carried by 44003
‘Snowdon’ allocated by Trainload Freight to Class 60 No.
60045 and then 60035, but changed when it was found that
a loco already carried the name - Not cast for Class 60
Slioch
Number: 60087
NR
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 11/91
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain in Highland Region, near Loch
Maree
Notes:
Solent
Allocated by Trainload Freight to Class 33, plate
cast but not fitted
NR
Songs of Praise
Snipe
Pullman car - Kitchen, built 1960 - Loco hauled
SNOWDON
Number: D9 / 44009
Location: BR Derby Works
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 16/11/59 Date removed: W03/79
Style: Class design
Meaning: The highest mountain in Wales, situated in
Snowdonia, 3,560ft high
Notes: Name reused on 86257
Snowdon
Number: 86257
Location: Willesden depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date: 29/01/81
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
Notes: Name previously carried by 44009
D
Number: 43106
DP DP
Location: York station
Named by: Thora Hird, Actress and presenter of TV
programme Songs of Praise
Date applied: 13/06/89 Date removed: 05/97
Style: Reflective with black ground, changed to reflective
with silver ground
Meaning: Named after long running TV programme
Notes:
Southampton WRD
SN
Quality Approved
Number: 47095
Location: Southampton Wagon Repair Depot
Named by: Ian Brown, Managing Director of RfD
Date applied: 19/04/94 Date removed: 10/95
Style: Standard, depot C/O/A above
Meaning: To mark certification of depot to BS5750
Notes:
NR
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Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 03/61
Date removed: W10/71
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after Royal Navy ship of same name
Notes:
Southend-on-Sea
Number: 321312 car No. 71891
DP
Location: Southend Victoria station
Named by: John Armitage, Mayor of Southend
Date applied: 07/10/89
Style: Standard Network
Meaning: To mark the centenary of the London-Southend
line
Notes:
Name allocated for application to North Eastern
NR
Class 56 - cast but not applied. To be named after
coal loading plant which had been closed by the time the
ceremony was arranged - 09/84
South Yorkshire
Metropolitan County
Number: 43122
NR DP
Location: Sheffield station
Named by: Cllr Terry Concannon, Chairman of South
Yorkshire County Council
Date applied: 18/01/85
Style: Standard, logo cast into plate, changed 02/91 to
reflective with silver ground
Meaning: Twinning of area with IC125 network
Notes: Off between 08/89 and 02/91
Number: D844
Location: NBL Glasgow
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Number: ‘WES’ 2412 car No. 62947
DP
Location: Portsmouth & Southsea station
Named by: Daley Thompson, athlete
Date applied: 15/07/97
Style: Standard - South West Trains
Meaning: Named to mark the 1997 Special Olympics,
held in Portsmouth
Notes: Stagecoach/SWT sponsored event
Spirit of Cumbria
Southsider
SPARTAN
SPECIAL OLYMPICS
SN
Number: Mk3 DVT 82135
NR
Location: Carlisle station
Named by: Cllr Bob Edgar, Vice Chairman of Cumbria
County Council
Date applied: 15/10/96
Style: Standard with eye logo at top
Meaning: Named as part of a joint venture between
Cumbria County Council and InterCity West Coast to
mark the UK Year of Visual Arts
Notes: Originally planned for unveiling on 08/10/96
SPIRIT OF RUGBY
Number: 455711 car No. 71542
DP
Location: Twickenham station
Named by: Bill Beaumont, ex British Lions and England
rugby player with Mary Sweeney, local schoolgirl, winner
of competition
Date applied: 10/10/96
Style: Special, including central C/O/A
Meaning: Named to mark the 125th anniversary of the
Rugby Football Union
Notes:
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after
Royal Navy ship of same
name
Notes:
Spirit of Springburn
Springburn
Name allocated to Class 26 No. 26004 - not applied
Spirit of the Olympics
Cast in mid-1996 on an order from Res/Royal Mail
for application to Class 325, to mark the Royal
Mail's sponsorship of the 1996 Olympic team
NR
Spitfire
Number: 33047
NR
Location: Eastleigh depot
Named by: David Orchard, Eastleigh driver, winner of a
staff loco naming competition
Date applied: 18/04/91 Date removed: 01/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: One of 10 aeronautic names selected by
competition for application to Eastleigh allocated Civil
Engineers Class 33s - Named after aeroplane
Notes: Transferred to 33035
Number: 33035
Location: Eastleigh depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 30/12/93 Date removed: W09/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
Notes: Transferred from 33047
SPRIGHTLY
Number: D845
Location: NBL Glasgow
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 04/61
Date removed: W10/71
Number: 47637 / 47826
NR
Location: BRML Springburn Works
Named by: Alex Ferry, General Secretary of the
Shipbuilders and Engineering Union
Date applied: 16/06/87 Date removed: 11/89
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named to mark the formal transfer of Glasgow
Works to a Level 5 maintenance facility
Notes:
S.S. Great Britain
Number: 47508
SN
Location: Bristol Temple Meads station
Named by: H M The Queen
Date applied: 26/07/85 Date removed: 06/92
Style: Standard, detail plate below ‘This locomotive was
named by H. M. The Queen in 1985 the 150th anniversary
year of The Great Western Railway’
Meaning: Twinning of Western Region InterCity
locomotive with Brunel steamship S.S. Great Britain,
berthed in Bristol Docks and under restoration
Notes: GW150 naming. Previously named ‘Great
Britain’. Transferred to 47823
Number: 47823
Location: Bristol Bath Road depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 10/92
Date removed: 08/94
Style: Standard, No detail plate
Meaning: See above
Notes: Transferred from 47508. Renamed ‘Victim
Support’ as 47787
SN
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St. Aidan’s
CE Memorial School Hartlepool
Railsafe Trophy Winners 1995
Number: 37517
PC
Location: Thornaby depot
Named by: Lindsey Lake (9), pupil of St Aidan’s School
Date applied: 19/07/95 Date removed: 04/96
Style: Standard Loadhaul
Meaning: Named after winning school in the Railtrack,
BTP, TOU schools safety competition which culminated
in a football match
Notes: After naming loco blessed by Cannon Michael
Whithead, parish priest of St.Aidan’s
Stac Pollaidh
Number: 60078
NR
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 09/91
Date removed: 01/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain in Highland Region near Loch Lurgainn
Notes:
Stainless Pioneer
Number: 37275
BSC
Location: Tinsley Park Works, British Steel
Named by: Eric Britton, member of staff who won
competition to name loco
Date applied: 16/12/88 Date removed: 06/92
Style: Standard, cast in Stainless Steel, C/O/A above
Meaning: To mark the 75th anniversary of the invention
of Stainless Steel
Notes: Nameplates, handrails and kick plates produced
by British Steel from Stainless Steel. Name transferred to
37717. Renamed ‘Oor Wullie’
Pupils of St Aidan’s School Hartlepool, pose with BTP
Area Commander Steve Hotston and Phil Crawshaw
from Loadhaul in front of ‘their’ locomotive at
Thornaby depot on 19 July 1995 after nine year old
Lindsey Lake unveiled the nameplate to mark her school
winning the Railsafe Trophy competition for 1995. The
picture below shows Lindsey just after she unveiled the
nameplate, along with Loadhaul Press Officer Andy
Lickfold. DF
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Number: 37717
Location: Thornaby depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 08/92
Date removed: 07/96
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: Little meaning on this loco. See above
Notes: Transferred from 37275. Stainless Steel fittings not
transferred. Transferred to 56112. Renamed ‘Maltby Lilly
Hall Junior School Rotherham Railsafe Trophy Winners
1996’
Number: 56112
Location: Thornaby depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 09/96
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: Little meaning on this loco. See first entry. No
stainless steel fittings on this loco
Notes: Transferred from 37717
Starlight Express
Number: 86231
SN
Location: Euston station
Named by: Andrew Lloyd-Webber, composer
Date applied: 01/10/84
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named to mark the launch of the LondonGlasgow ‘Starlight Express’ low price overnight service
with video coach
Notes: Originally allocated the name ‘Lady of the Lake’
Starlight Express writer Andrew
Lloyd-Webber poses in the cab of
86231 after its naming with the
cast of the show and Stephanie
Lawrence.
St. Blazey
T & R S Depot
Number: 37670
NR
Location: St Blazey depot
Named by: Bernard Mules, Production Manager RfD
Date applied: 04/02/93 Date removed: 09/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: To mark the association of 37s with St Blazey
Notes:
St. Christopher’s Railway
Home
Number: 47348
NR
Location: Coalville depot
Named by: Douglas Taylor, Chairman of St Christophers
Date applied: 31/05/87 (open day)
Style: Standard, detail plate below ‘This locomotive
was named by Mr Douglas Taylor Chairman of St
Christophers Railway Home on 31st May 1987 in
recognition of the funds raised for the home at the British
Rail open days held at Coalville depot’
Meaning: See above
Notes:
Star of the East
Number: 47401
NR
Location: Immingham depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 01/05/91 Date removed: W06/92
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named as the loco and depot were known as
Star of the East
Notes: Name later carried by 37421
Number: 37421
Location: Thornaby depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 12/03/93 Date removed: 04/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: Name applied as locos correct name
‘Strombidae’ was inappropriate to haul a BP Oil special,
Strombidae being a Shell name
Notes: Name previously carried by 47401. 37421 previously
‘Strombidae’
STEADFAST
Number: D846
SN
Location: NBL Glasgow
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 04/61
Date removed: W05/91
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after Royal Navy ship of same name
Notes: Name reused on Class 60 No. 60001
Steadfast
Number: 60001
NR
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Colin Driver, Director of Freight BRB and
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Raymond Wynn the winner of a BR internal competition
to select a name for the new freight loco
Date applied: 29/06/89 Date removed: 09/96
Style: Standard
Meaning: Name derived to indicate ‘Power & Efficiency’
Notes: Unveiled at official hand-over of first loco. Name
previously used on D846
Steel Age
Cast by NR for Railfreight Distribution for
application to Cardiff loco involved in steel traffic
in late 1980s - not applied
Steel Worker
Cast by NR for Railfreight Distribution for
application to Cardiff loco involved in steel traffic
in late 1980s - not applied
Steep Holm
Number: 92018
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 10/94
Style: Transfer
Meaning: Marie Henry Beyle Stendhal (1783-1842),
French author
Notes:
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Number: E26050 / 76050 / 76038
G
Location: Gorton Works
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 08/60
Date removed: C1968
Style: Class design
Meaning: In Greek mythology, the herald who died after
losing a shouting contest with the god Hermes
Notes:
NR
NR
Number: 08919
NR
Location: Bristol Barton Hill depot
Named by: John Withy, Depot Supervisor, Barton Hill
Date applied: 13/12/95
Style: Standard Res, half size letters
Meaning: One of three Bristol Class 08s named after
islands in the Bristol Channel
Notes: Plates also cast as ‘Steep Holme’
Stendhal
STENTOR
Stephen Dent
Number: 08896
PC
Location: Bristol Temple Meads station
Named by: Mairread Dent, widow
Date applied: 26/09/97
Style: Special EWS, small letters. Descriptive plate on
cab side ‘This locomotive was named on September
26th 1997 in memory of Steve “Radio” Dent 1946-1997
Railwayman’
Meaning: Named in honour of local Bristol railwayman
who died in mid-1997
Notes:
STEPHENSON
Number: 87001
PRI
Location: Euston station
Named by: Jack Boston, President of Stephenson
Locomotive Society
Date applied: 14/01/76 Date removed: 07/77
Style: Special, brushed aluminium with black letters
Meaning: Named after George Stephenson, the inventor
of a successful steam engine in 1814. Unveiled to mark the
150th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Notes: This was the first loco named after the relaxation
of the loco naming ban. Naming was at the request of the
Stephenson Locomotive Society and ‘should’ have been
applied in 1975 as part of the Rail 150 events. The SLS
wanted the name applied to No. 87101 as this reflected the
latest development in traction, but turned down by BR.
Transferred to No. 87101
Number: 87101
NR
Location: Manchester Piccadilly station
Named by: Jack Boston, President of Stephenson
Locomotive Society
Date applied: 12/10/77. C/O/A added 05/82
Style: Special, brushed aluminium with black letters.
Brass plates fitted 15/10/94
Meaning: See above
Notes: Transferred from 87001. Re-plated at Crewe
Electric depot on 15/10/94, unveiled by Ian Johnson,
Chairman of the Stephenson Locomotive Society
Meaning: To mark the 125th anniversary of the depot
hence 73125 selected, and the long association of the
depot with the Class 73s
Notes: Originally planned for fitting to No. 73001 (E6001)
Stewarts Lane
Traction Maintenance Depot
STEVENAGE
Number: 73114
NR
Location: Stewarts Lane depot
Named by: Brian Harris, Mainline Freight, Engineering
Director
Date applied: 14/11/94
Style: Standard (painted not published)
Meaning: To mark the launch of Mainline Freight, and
Stewarts Lane as one of the prime traction repair depots
Notes:
new town
50 years - 1946 - 1996
Number: 317371, car No. 71764
PH
Location: Stevenage station
Named by: Mayor of Stevenage
Date applied: 02/11/96
Style: WAGN, incorporating logo
Meaning: One of a series of twinnings of WAGN trains
with locations on route
Notes:
Stewarts Lane
1860–1985
Number: 73125 / 73204
SN
Location: Stewarts Lane depot
Named by: Jack Head and Harry Loader long serving staff
from depot
Date applied: 22/09/85 (open day)
Style: Standard
St. John Ambulance
Number: 86408 / 86608
NR
Location: Euston station
Named by: The Duke of Gloucester as Grand Prior to the
Order of St. John
Date applied: 04/11/87
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: To mark the centenary of St. John Ambulance
and to mark the close relationship between St. John
Ambulance and BR
Notes:
St. Leonards
Number: 203001 car No. 60014 (R/N 60152)
Location: St Leonards depot
Named by: John Perry, Depot Manager
Date applied: 11/09/87 Date removed W06/90*
NR
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Style: Standard, half size letters
Meaning: To commemorate St.Leonards depot which
had maintained the ‘Hastings’ diesel fleet since their
introduction, which closed on 03/10/87
Notes: * Name retained in preservation
Named by: Glyn Samuel, National Chairman of Road
Haulage Association
Date applied: 24/02/88
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: Twinning of Company with Railfreight
Notes:
St Margaret’s
Church of England Primary School City
of Durham Railsafe Trophy Winners 1997
Number: 37717
PC
Location: Thornaby Depot
Named by: Joseph Barton (11) pupil from school
Date applied: 16/07/97
Style: Standard EWS
Meaning: To mark the 1997 winners of the Railsafe
schools competition
Notes: When applied this became the loco with the
longest nameplate - in terms of number of letters - 77.
Previously named ‘Maltby Lilly Hall Junior School
Rotherham Railsafe Trophy Winners 1996’
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STORA
Number: 56103
PC
Location: Stora terminal, Ripple Lane
Named by: Mike Hutchinson, Managing Director of Stora
Date applied: 18/07/97
Style: Special, incorporating logo
Meaning: To mark the one millionth tonne of newsprint
transported by rail from Immingham to Ripple Lane
Notes:
Pullman car - Kitchen, built 1960 - Loco hauled
Number: 43142
NR DP
Location: Paddington station
Named by: Sir Roger Bannister, first 4 minute/mile runner
and former graduate of the hospital
Date applied: 04/11/86 Date removed: 03/89
Style: Standard IC125, changed to reflective with silver
ground
Meaning: Named in honour of the hospital which is built
on land purchased from the GWR
Notes:
Number: 37511
Location: Stockton station
See ‘Strombidae’
Stork
St Mary’s Hospital
Paddington
Stockton Haulage
Stombidae
Storm Force
Number: 43160
DP
Location: Poole station
Named by: Laura Scaife ( 7), competition winner
Date applied: 27/04/91 Date removed: 09/97
Style: Reflective with silver ground, C/O/A above
Meaning: To celebrate the Childrens Club of the RNLI
(Storm Force) and mark the introduction of IC125s on the
CrossCountry services to Poole
Notes: See below
Stormforce
NR
Cast nameplate provided by NR in 10/95 for
application to powercar No. 43160 as replacement.
Not fitted by 02/98
NR
Stratford
Number: 47007
NR
Location: Stratford Diesel Repair Shop
Named by: Terry Miller, former District Motive Power
Superintendent of the DMEE and the Railways Board
Date applied: 15/11/86 Date removed: 11/90
Style: Standard, logo above
Meaning: Named after the depot which had just
completed the first (pilot) Component Exchange
Maintenance (CEM) overhaul to the loco
Notes: Reapplied to No. 37023
ST. PADDY
Number: D9001 / 55001
GL
Location: Doncaster Works
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 07/07/61 Date removed: W01/80
Style: ‘Deltic’ design
Meaning: Racehorse owned by Sir Victor Sassoon, which
won the 1960 Derby, St Leger, 2000 guineas, Hardwick
and Eclipse stakes
Notes:
St. Peter’s School York
A.D. 627
Number: 43152
NR
Location: York station
Named by: Wing Commander J S P Phillips DFC, former
pupil at school and one of the construction team of V2
No. 4818 which carried the name of the school from 1939
Date applied: 05/11/84 Date removed: 03/96
Style: Standard IC125, C/O/A cast on plate, changed to
reflective with silver ground 06/91
Meaning: Re use of steam name, twinning of school with
new IC125 network
Notes: The naming date of 05/11/84 was selected as Guy
Fawkes went to St Peter's School, York. Off between
06/89 and 06/91
Number: 37023
Location: Stratford depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 11/91
Date removed: 02/94
Style: Standard, logo above (see below)
Meaning: On this loco no meaning except twinning
Notes: Transferred from 47007. Plate amended 01/02/94
Stratford
TMD Quality Approved
Number: 37023
Location: Stratford depot
Named by: Ian Brown, Managing Director of RfD
Date applied: 01/02/94
Style: Standard, QA plate below, logo above
Meaning: To mark award of BS5750 to depot
Notes:
NR
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Stratford Major Depot
Number: 31165 / D5583
LOCAL
Location: Stratford Diesel Repair Shop
Named by: Alf Buffett, former Stratford Repair Shop
Manager
Date applied: 26/03/91 Date removed: 09/94
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: Named to mark the closure of the heavy repair
facility at Stratford after 77 years. No. 31165 was the last
loco to receive classified attention at the depot
Notes: Repainted green for event
Strathclyde Region
Number: 37405
NR
Location: Glasgow Queen Street station
Named by: Dick Stewart, Leader of Strathclyde Regional
Council
Date applied: 11/04/86 Date removed: 05/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: Twinning of ScotRail with local administration
region
Notes: Joint ceremony with ‘University of Strathclyde’
STRATHCLYDER
Number: 318266 car No. 62882
NR
Location: Ayr station
Named by: Cllr William Perry
Date applied: 19/04/95
Style: Special
Meaning: In recognition of the support given by
Strathclyde PTE to rail services through a partnership deal
Notes: Named at Ayr as this is the most heavily used route
within the PTE area
Former Stratford Repair Shop Manager, Alf Buffett poses
by the name ‘Stratford Major Depot’, applied to green
liveried Class 31 No. 31165 to mark the depots closure.
CJM
Strathclyde
Number: 47706
SN
Location: Haymarket depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 06/79
Date removed: 04/86
Style: Standard
Meaning: Ancient British Kingdom from the Clyde to the
Derwent, now a metropolitan county, comprising most of
Greater Glasgow and part of the Clyde Valley. One of a
series of names selected to reflect a Scottish theme for the
new locos for the Edinburgh-Glasgow route
Notes:
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Strathisla
Number: 47642
NR
Location: Keith station
Named by: Edgar Bronfman-Seagram, Chairman and
Chief Executive of Strathisla whisky
Date applied: 16/09/86 Date removed: 05/92
Style: Standard, C/O/A above
Meaning: Twinning of BR with the whisky company
Strathisla based in Keith. The unveiling marked the 200th
birthday of the company and the oldest whisky distillery
still in production
Notes: Renamed ‘Resolute’
Strombidae
(Stombidae)
Number: 47233
NR
Location: Crewe Diesel depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 10/88
Date removed: W02/91
Style: Standard
Meaning: Fleet naming of dedicated Shell locos - using
Latin names for shells
Notes: When first fitted spelt incorrectly ‘Stombidae’,
carried for only five days until seen by local expert and
reported, recast. Transferred to 37421
Number: 37421
Location: Immingham depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 03/91
Date removed: 03/93
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
Notes: Renamed ‘Star of the East’ and later ‘The
Kingsman’
Paddington in 09/88, at twinning with new sixth-form
college at Gosport
Meaning: Named after 1908-launched Battleship
Notes:
Suffolk Ferry
This is not strictly a loco or train name, but it is included
as the vehicle onto which it was attached had a BR TOPS
number. The name was carried by No. 99001 a BR-owned
ferry ship used on the Harwich-Zeebrugge route
Sulis Minerva
Number: 43130
DP
Location: Bath Spa station
Named by: Cllr Eric Snook, Lord Mayor of Bath and
Professor Rodney Quayle, FRS, Vice Chancellor of the
University
Date applied: 02/06/92
Style: Reflective with silver ground, C/O/A above of both
Bath and University
Meaning: InterCity GW's salute to the Roman past of
Bath, and a 25 year association with the University. (The
Roman Goddess Minerva appears on the City C/O/A)
Notes: Unveiled during scheduled stop of the 10.15
Paddington-Bristol
STRONGBOW
Number: D847
SN
Location: NBL Glasgow
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 03/61
Date removed: W03/71
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after Royal Navy ship of same name
Notes:
St Vincent
Number: 50004
SN
Location: Laira depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 09/05/78 Date removed: W06/90
Style: Standard. Twinning plate added in ceremony at
Suilven
Number: 60076
NR
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 09/91
Date removed: 01/97
Style: Standard
Meaning: Mountain in Highland Region, near Lochinver
Notes:
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Sullivan
Notes:
Transferred
from 33025
and returned
to original
loco in
01/89. Later
renamed
‘Ashford
150’
Number: 92037
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied:
07/95
Style: Transfer
Meaning: Sir
Arthur Sullivan
(1842-1900) ,
British composer
Notes:
SULTAN
Number: D848
Location: NBL Glasgow
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 04/61
Date removed: W03/69
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named
after Royal Navy ship
of same name
Notes: Name used
again on 33025
Sultan
SUPERB
SN
Number: 33025
SN
Location: Portsmouth Harbour station
Named by: Captain Austin Lockyer, MVO, ADB, RN,
Commanding Officer, HMS Sultan
Date applied: 06/08/81 & 01/89 Date removed: 02/88*
Style: Standard, C/O/A below
Meaning: Named after the Royal Navy’s school of marine
engineering at Gosport, to mark the silver jubilee of the
engineering school
Notes: Loco selected as its number reflected the 25th
anniversary. Crests provided by Royal Navy, cast in
Foundry of HMS Sultan by Chief Marine Engineering
Artificer Charlie Bathe. * Plates removed 02/88,
transferred to 33114 from 04/88 to 01/89, then refitted
Number: 33114
Location: Eastleigh Depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 30/04/88 Date removed: 01/89
Style: Standard
Meaning: See above
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Number: D849
SN
Location: NBL Glasgow
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 05/61
Date removed: W05/71
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after 1943-launched Royal Navy cruiser
Notes: Name used again on 50002
Superb
Number: 50002
SN
Location: Laira depot
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 21/03/78 Date removed: W09/91
Style: Standard, C/O/A below
Meaning: Named after 1907-launched Battleship
Notes: Plaque unveiled in twinning ceremony at Plymouth
on 12/11/80, unveiled by Commander Michael Boyce of
HMS Superb. Name previously used on D849
Supermarine
One of 10 aeronautic names selected by competition for
application to Eastleigh allocated Civil Engineers Class
33s - Not cast
Swallow
Number: 91001
DP
Location: Kings Cross station
Named by: Lord Prior, Chairman of GEC-Alsthom in
company with Sir Robert Reid, Chairman of the BRB
Date applied: 20/09/89 Date removed: 01/97
Style: Reflective with silver ground
Meaning: Named after the new InterCity trading logo of a
Swallow, unveiled to launch the Mk4 stock on the Kings
Cross-Leeds route
Notes: First reflective plate.
Loco also carried a makers
plate which was larger than
the nameplate!
Swan Hunter
Number: 43004
DP
Location: Newcastle Central station
Named by: Peter Vaughan, Group Director Commercial
Affairs of Swan Hunter
Date applied: 30/11/90 Date removed: 02/95
Style: Reflective with silver ground, C/O/A above
Meaning: Named after the Newcastle ship builders, as
part of a two day event in which the Queen launched a
new Atlantic survey ship ‘James Clark-Ross’
Notes: Removed after closure of shipyard. Renamed
‘Borough of Swindon’
Swansea Landore
Quality Assured
Name scheduled for application in 1995 to IC125
NR
to twin Landore depot of the Bristol Traction
Group with GWT - event called off. Plate cast 10/95
Swansea University
Number: 43173
NR
Location: Swansea station
Named by: Prof Ken George, Pro-vice Chancellor of
Swansea University
Date applied: 28/06/96 Date removed: 09/97*
Style: Standard IC125
Meaning: To mark 75th anniversary of Swansea University
Notes: * Removed following Southall collision, one plate
destroyed in accident
Sweelinck
Number: 92046
Location: Brush, Loughborough
Named by: No ceremony
Date applied: 10/95
Style: Transfer
Meaning: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Dutch
composer
Notes:
SWIFT
Number: D850
SN
Location: NBL Glasgow
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 06/61
Date removed: W05/71
Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after Royal Navy ship of same name
Notes:
Swiftsure
Number: 50047
Location: Laira depot
Named by: No ceremony
SN
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Date applied: 26/05/78 Date removed: W04/88
Style: Standard
Meaning: Named after 1943-launched cruiser
Notes:
Swinden Dalesman
Number: 60059
PC
Location: Hillhead Quarry
Named by: John Illotson Area Manager Tilcon in
company with Ian Braybrook, Managing Director of
Loadhaul
Date applied: 20/06/95
Style: Standard Loadhaul, C/O/A above
Meaning: To cement the business relationship between
Loadhaul and one of their largest customers, Tilcon.
Unveiling coincided with Hillhead ‘95 quarry exhibition
Notes: Previously named ‘Samuel Plimsoll’
Swindon Enterprise
Name allocated and cast for application to an IC125
SN
as part of the GW150 events at Swindon Works on
31/07/85. Naming called off due to closure announcement
of the works - cast
SYLVANIA
Number: D231 / 40031
C
Location: Crewe Works
Named by: Applied without ceremony
Date applied: 05/62
Date removed: C 1971
Style: Special design for class incorporating central C/O/A
Meaning: Named to twin with 21,989 ton Cunard liner
Notes:
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