The Naming of 66786 20220618--018
Assisted by GBRf's Engineering Strategy Director Bob Tiller, and with CURC Senior Treasurer Nick Pyper (left) and Cambridge University Additional Deputy Proctor Gordon Chesterman (right) looking on, CURC President Schoen Cho officially names 66786 "Cambridge University Railway Club".
The naming took place at platform 5 at Cambridge station shortly after 2pm, and the loco remained there until just before 3.30pm when it departed for Peterborough (as 0N66 18.06 Cambridge - Peterborough Maintenance Shed, running a few hours early).
The CURC was formed from the Cambridge University branch of The Railway Club, and the oldest records known to be in existence which use the name "Cambridge University Railway Club" date from the AGM at the end of the 1910-11 academic year - so 1911 is taken as the year of the Club's foundation. It had been hoped that the naming would have taken place in the CURC's 110th anniversary year, but it was delayed as a result of the pandemic. It is believed the CURC is currently the second oldest railway enthusiast society in the UK (only the Stephenson Locomotive Society is older, dating from 1909).
Thanks are due to GBRf's John Smith and Bob Tiller and to CURC Vice President Seb Gibson for making it all possible.
For more about the CURC's events, visit curc.org.uk/.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.
The Naming of 66786 20220618--018
Assisted by GBRf's Engineering Strategy Director Bob Tiller, and with CURC Senior Treasurer Nick Pyper (left) and Cambridge University Additional Deputy Proctor Gordon Chesterman (right) looking on, CURC President Schoen Cho officially names 66786 "Cambridge University Railway Club".
The naming took place at platform 5 at Cambridge station shortly after 2pm, and the loco remained there until just before 3.30pm when it departed for Peterborough (as 0N66 18.06 Cambridge - Peterborough Maintenance Shed, running a few hours early).
The CURC was formed from the Cambridge University branch of The Railway Club, and the oldest records known to be in existence which use the name "Cambridge University Railway Club" date from the AGM at the end of the 1910-11 academic year - so 1911 is taken as the year of the Club's foundation. It had been hoped that the naming would have taken place in the CURC's 110th anniversary year, but it was delayed as a result of the pandemic. It is believed the CURC is currently the second oldest railway enthusiast society in the UK (only the Stephenson Locomotive Society is older, dating from 1909).
Thanks are due to GBRf's John Smith and Bob Tiller and to CURC Vice President Seb Gibson for making it all possible.
For more about the CURC's events, visit curc.org.uk/.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.