Naming
Some of the Virgin-operated Class 221 SuperVoyagers were named after famous voyagers, some fictional and some real, as follows:
| 221 101 | Louis Blériot | 221 123† | Henry Hudson (de-named) |
| 221 102 | John Cabot | 221 124† | Charles Lindbergh (de-named) |
| 221 103 | Christopher Columbus | 221 125† | Henry the Navigator (de-named) |
| 221 104 | Sir John Franklin | 221 126† | Captain Robert Scott (de-named) |
| 221 105 | William Baffin | 221 127† | Wright Brothers (de-named) |
| 221 106 | Willem Barents | 221 128† | Captain John Smith (de-named) |
| 221 107 | Sir Martin Frobisher | 221 129† | George Vancouver (de-named) |
| 221 108 | Sir Ernest Shackleton | 221 130† | Michael Palin (de-named) |
| 221 109 | Marco Polo | 221 131† | Edgar Evans (de-named) |
| 221 110 | James Cook | 221 132† | William Speirs Bruce (de-named) |
| 221 111 | Roald Amundsen | 221 133† | Alexander Selkirk (de-named) |
| 221 112 | Ferdinand Magellan | 221 134† | Mary Kingsley (de-named) |
| 221 113 | Sir Walter Raleigh | 221 135† | Donald Campbell (de-named) |
| 221 114 | Sir Francis Drake (de-named) | 221 136† | Yuri Gagarin (de-named) |
| 221 115 | Polmadie Depot - formerly Sir Francis Chichester | 221 137† | Mayflower Pilgrims (de-named) |
| 221 116 | David Livingstone (de-named) | 221 138† | Thor Heyerdahl (de-named) |
| 221 117 | Sir Henry Morton Stanley (de-named) | 221 139† | Leif Eriksson (de-named) |
| 221 118 | Mungo Park (de-named) | 221 140† | Vasco Da Gama (de-named) |
| 221 119† | Amelia Earhart (de-named) | 221 141^† | Amerigo Vespucci (de-named) |
| 221 120† | Amy Johnson (de-named) | 221 142‡ | BOMBARDIER Voyager - formerly Matthew Flinders |
| 221 121† | Charles Darwin (de-named) | 221 143‡ | Auguste Picard |
| 221 122† | Doctor Who (de-named) | 221 144§ | 2 coaches stored - formerly BOMBARDIER Voyager and Prince Madoc |
† - Refers to SuperVoyagers transferred to CrossCountry.
^ - Refers to 4 coach units.
‡ - Refers to 4 coach units converted to 5 cars.
§ - Refers to stored & disbanded units.
Read more about this topic: British Rail Class 221
Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)