LNER Class A4 2509 Silver Link was a 4-6-2 "Pacific" Steam Locomotive built in 1935 for the London and North Eastern Railway. It was the first of the Streamlined Class A4s built to haul express passen
Sliver Link on its second day of running the Silver Jubilee in 1935.
Silver Link at Doncaster Works in March 1963, shortly before it was broken up for scrap.
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Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin was an entrepreneur known for British holiday camps. Although holiday camps such as Warner's existed in one form or another before Butlin opened his first in
LNER Class A4 2509 Silver Link
…for scrap at Doncaster Works on 7 September 1963, on the same site where it had been built nearly twenty eight years earlier. There was an attempt by Sir Billy Butlin to save the locomotive, but it was unsuccessful. Two examples of the Silver Link nameplate are on display at the National Railway Museum, York, England…
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Butlin visiting a munitions factory on behalf of the Ministry of Supply
Billy Butlin, and Sergeant John Caffrey, VC, one of the Commissionaires at Filey Holiday Camp
Butlins Bognor Resort in 1962