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Severn Valley Railway honours victims of wartime attack
Monday 3rd October 2011, 6:30PM BST.
The service at the Engine House, Highley: Attendees at the ceremony are welcomed by Jeff Ryan, Stanier 8F Locomotive Society chairman
Shropshire’s Severn Valley Railway hosted a ceremony honouring nine people who were killed during the Battle of Britain when a German bomber attacked the line they were training on.
More than 60 years after the deaths, the combat engineers, serving with the Corps of Royal Engineers at the Melbourne Military Railway near Castle Donington in Derbyshire, were formally added to a roll of honour commemorating army railwaymen killed in action, at Severn Valley Railway in Highley on Saturday.
The attraction is home to a Stanier 8F train, built for the Second World War effort and remembered for its part in the British advance and following the D-Day landings. The train acts as a permanent war memorial.
David Wilcock, of Severn Valley Railway, said: “The ceremony took place at The Engine House Visitor Centre, Highley, where the train is now displayed.”
He said up to 200 people attended the ceremony.
“During the ceremony, the roll of honour which previously listed the names of 354 military railwaymen known to have been killed in World War Two, was expanded by an additional 54 names, the details of which have come to light since the list was last dedicated in 2002.”
The additions included the names of six Sappers who died in a head-on collision between two trains, in fog, at the Longmoor Military Railway at Liss, Hampshire in 1956 – Saturday’s event marked the 55th anniversary.
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