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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Locomotive / Train
- District
- Bridgnorth
- Town
- Shifnal
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 8 October1948
Attended by: LORD LIEUTENANT OF SURREY
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61013
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Current location
Nameplate and plaque only.
RAF Museum Cosford
Loak Road
Albrighton
Shifnal
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
TF11 8UP
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 79257 04671
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Southern Railway 4-6-2 Light Pacific locomotive, with two rectangular brass nameplates with raised letters on a pale sky-blue background, each with the wording BATTLE OF BRITAIN CLASS in smaller lettering at the base. Each locomotive had two vitreous enamelled oval badges on a air force blue background within a gunmetal surround with the appropriate squadron crest or the badge of the Royal Air Force, where no specific crest was available. As originally built the locomotives had air-smoothed casings and the nameplate was applied above the badge, but when rebuilt without the casings the badge was placed above the nameplate mounted on the running plate.
- Inscription
- 615 SQUADRON
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Locomotive
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Enamel, Brass
- Locomotive
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- History
- Built Sep. 1948. BR No. 34082. Rebuilt April 1960. Withdrawn April 1966, and scrapped by John Cashmore, Newport Sep. 1966. In Dec. 2002 the other pair of nameplate and plaque were sold for £45,800.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
- Royal Air Force Museum 68/Y/588;68/Y/591 www.rafmuseum.org.uk/online exhibitions/loco_plates
- Bulleid Society www.bulleidsociety.org/OVS_Bulleid/OVSB_Light_Pacifics.html
- National Railway Museum Poster for naming at Guildford www.ssplprints.com/image.php?imgref=10174957
- www.bbm.org.uk/Locomotives.htm
- Ministry of Defence www.raf.mod.uk/history/615squadron.cfm
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