Railway Herald
Name that DMU! Nameplates on DMUs are something of a rarity, at least in Cambridgeshire, so Greater Anglia Class 156 Super-Sprinter No. 156416 'Saint Edmund' adds some welcome variety as it speeds across the Cross Drove occupation crossing, near Coates in Cambridgeshire, on Sunday 19th August 2012. The unit was operating a shuttle service between Peterborough and Ely, with a rail replacement bus service between Ely and Bury St. Edmunds, owing to engineering works at Bury St Edmunds: this run was timetabled as the 11:46 service from Peterborough to Ipswich. No. 156416 was named by BBC Radio Suffolk breakfast show presenter Mark Murphy and East Anglian Daily Times editor Terry Hunt, in a live radio broadcast at Ipswich Station on 28th November 2006, as part of a Radio Suffolk campaign to have Saint Edmund, a 9th Century King of East Anglia, replace Saint George as the patron saint of England.
Julian Hodgson
