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Title: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: bobm on June 04, 2014, 19:54:53 First Great Western has become one of the charity supporters of the Dame Hannah Rogers Trust which supports young and adult disabled people from two sites in Devon.
Today HST Power Car 43017 was named "Hannahs" in a ceremony at Exeter St Davids. (http://www.mbob.co.uk/rforum/fgwhann.jpg) FGW MD Mark Hopwood looks on as Bronwen Hewitt, chief executive of Hannahs, unveils the nameplate The ceremony came a day after FGW staged its Community Rail Conference at the Trust's Seale-Hayne centre near Newton Abbot. More details about the charity's work can be found here - http://www.discoverhannahs.org/ (http://www.discoverhannahs.org/) Also a video report on today's unveiling from ITV West Country (http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2014-06-04/devons-hannah-rogers-trust-gets-train-honour/) Title: Re: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on June 04, 2014, 20:04:17 See also http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=14010.0 ;)
Title: Re: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: JayMac on June 04, 2014, 20:19:56 I was there just in time to hear the last sentence of Mr Hopwood's speech.
All thanks to 'congestion caused by earlier delays' meaning my supposed 1011 arrival, in time for the unveiling at 1015, turned into a 1025 arrival. ::) Title: Re: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: JayMac on June 04, 2014, 20:30:37 Also a video report on today's unveiling from ITV West Country (http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2014-06-04/devons-hannah-rogers-trust-gets-train-honour/) Without wishing to detract too much from this uplifting story, I couldn't help but notice someone with a big nose beneath an ever present flatcap just in the shot toward the end of the video news item: (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/hannahs_zps3fa0c78d.jpg) ;D Title: Re: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on June 04, 2014, 20:33:27 Justin was just in time to be just in the news item, then? ;) :D ;D
Title: Re: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: bobm on June 04, 2014, 20:34:47 If you look closely - there is my Pullman inspired waist evident earlier on....
Title: Re: FGW celebrates charity link with Dame Hannah Rogers Trust - 04 Jun 14 Post by: JayMac on June 04, 2014, 20:36:06 And in that screengrab bobm is skillfully hiding behind the guy on the right's phone. ;D
It was nice to see after the unveiling that some of the more physically able 'hannahs' young people were invited into the driving cab of the Class 43, with FGW drivers answering their questions, and allowed the obligatory toot on the horn. ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |