The Tom Derrington Railway Archive |
50009 Conqueror stands at Newton Abbot station on 18 July 1978 with an unidentified southbound working. The loco had been named two months earlier. Like most Royal Navy names, Conqueror has been used repeatedly, with ten vessels carrying the name since 1745. 50009 is allegedly named after the 1911 battleship. The most recent recipient of the name was the submarine that sunk the Argentinean cruiser General Belgrano in the Falklands War. |