Railway Herald
The nameplate on Class 86/4 No. 86411 'Airey Neave' is seen at Stafford on 2nd July 1988. Airey Neave was the first officer to escape from Colditz Castle in WWII and became a MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He was mortally wounded by the INLA by a bomb under his car at the Palace of Westminster on 30th May 1979. No. 86411 was named by Margaret Thatcher in May 1983, and the locomotive as No. 86611 was withdrawn after the accident at Shallowfield on 16th October 2003.
John Neave
