The story of the first ever enemy air attack in World War 2 on a Train

When: 11 December 2025, 17:30 - 19:00

Where: Online

Speaker: Graham Moore, BSc(Eng), CEng, FIMechE, MAPM; Retired Chartered Engineer & Project Manager

Graham will tell us about this awful event near Bishopstone in Sussex on 3rd July 1940, and the sad loss of the driver Charles Henry Pattenden who was driving the steam train, locomotive 2244, as well as the story leading up to the fateful attack. It will include some details of railway operations in 1935-1940..

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