Railway Herald
Named 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 passes through the rural Fenland countryside near Eastrea on Sunday 19th August 2012. This service was timetabled as the 09:45 departure from Peterborough to Ipswich; however, due to engineering works at Bury St Edmunds the unit was operating a shuttle service between Peterborough and Ely, with buses replacing trains between Ely and Bury St Edmunds. Saint Edmund was a 9th Century King of East Anglia, and 156416 was named in a live radio broadcast at Ipswich Station on 28th November 2006, as part of a campaign by Radio Suffolk to have Saint Edmund replace Saint George as the patron saint of England.
Julian Hodgson
