‘The Royal Leicestershire Regiment’ Remembered
Date: 11 November 2010
Source: Bachmann
‘The Royal Leicestershire Regiment’ Remembered
Leicestershire based model railway company Bachmann Europe today handed over a OO scale model of Patriot Class steam locomotive No. 45503 ‘The Royal Leicestershire Regiment’.
The real locomotive was built by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway at Crewe in July 1932. It was named “The Leicestershire Regiment” in 1938 before being renamed the “The Royal Leicestershire Regiment” ten years later in November 1948. The locomotive was withdrawn in August 1961 and subsequently scrapped.
Graham Hubbard, Managing Director of Bachmann Europe Plc handed the locomotive over to “The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum” in Leicester appropriately on Remembrance Day. Graham said, “when we looked at producing models of the Patriot Class it was appropriate for us to produce a model with local connections. We are delighted to hand over this model to the Museum as a reminder to us all of the long and distinguished history of the famous ‘Green Tigers’”.
The Regiment was amalgamated into the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964.
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