Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Locomotive / Train
- District
- Camden
- Town
- Euston
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 14 May 1983
Attended by: RT HON BARONESS THATCHER LG OM FRS
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 61281
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- Previous locations
- Place of naming ceremony.
Euston Railway Station
Euston
Camden
Greater London
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Place of naming ceremony.
- Description
- Class 86 electric locomotive, with two nameplates.
- Inscription
- Airey Neave
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
- Components
- Locomotive
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Locomotive
- Condition
- History
- Built May 1965 by English Electric Vulcan Foundry and put into service October 1965. The locomotive was renumbered several times, being 86311 at the time of the naming ceremony in 1983. The last number carried was 86611. The locomotive was involved in the Norton Bridge accident on 16 October 2003, and was scrapped 2004/5 at Crewe Works. It is not known what happened to the nameplates.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
- Other website Speech at naming ceremony. www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105138
- Flickr
- Sunday Times 15 May 1983 p.1 col.c
- Other website AC Locomotive Group www.aclocgroup.co.uk/data86.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Neave, A M S Published:Oxford University Press 2004 Airey Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, TD was Conservative MP for Abingdon from until his murder by the Irish liberation Army on 30 March 1979.
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