Virgin Trains has a proud track record of serving local communities up and down the West Coast route. Here’s a few recent examples…
A FITTING MEMORIAL
It is incumbent on any organisation to pay tribute to those who made sacrifices in years gone by. Virgin Trains did just that in May 2016 by unveiling a memorial at Manchester Piccadilly to the 87 railwaymen who lost their lives in the Great War from 1914 to 1918.
The men, who all worked for the London & North Western Railway in the station’s Goods Depot, were originally honoured on a bronze memorial that mysteriously disappeared during the redevelopment of the area in the 1960s. Two Virgin Train Managers took it upon themselves to have a new memorial erected centre stage at Piccadilly station, to then also act as a focal point for future remembrance events during the 100-year anniversary of the First World War and subsequent occasions.
For one customer, a chance encounter with one of the Virgin Trains team led her to find the grave of her Grandfather, who died fighting in World War One. The location of the grave had been a mystery to the family, but when Rita Armin travelled from Stockport to London she met Train Manager Wayne McDonald, who happened…
