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2016-10-31 - [GB] Freightliner honours Buxton’s Battle of Somme heroes

Home News Archive 2016-10-31 - [GB] Freightliner honours Buxton’s Battle of Somme heroes

Close-up of the nameplates on Freightliner 66614 'Poppy'. The bottom plate states: "In memory of 15 brave lads from Buxton Lime Firms who gave their lives at the Battle of the Somme".


Freightliner 66614 has been named 'Poppy' at a naming ceremony at Tunstead Quarry on October 28. The Class 66 locomotive has been named in memory of 15 workers from Buxton Lime Firms (now Tarmac) who served and died in the Battle of the Somme.


Inspiration for the locomotive name was taken from a large copper poppy sculpture produced earlier this year by three Tarmac Buxton apprentices to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. An aluminium cast of the sculpture, which was made using 1916 manufacturing processes and features the name of the workers who lost their lives in the battle, has been fitted to the side of ”Poppy” as a lasting tribute.


Poppy is part of the Freightliner locomotive fleet delivering limestone products over a five-year contract for Tarmac awarded earlier this year.


Freightliner 66614 'Poppy' passes through Sheffield Station on November 14, 2016. Picture by Howard Lewsey.


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