91109 'Sir Bobby Robson' leads the 1F08 08.30 King's Cross to Edinburgh past Frinkley Lane crossing between Grantham and Newark. This Class 91 was named in a ceremony at Newcastle station on 29.03.11 to commemorate the Newcastle lad and English footballer/manager's by his widow Elsie and Alan Shearer, patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. The naming of the loco. marked the resumption of a naming policy by the East Coast.
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