Paul Scott wrote:
"Arthur Figgis" wrote in message
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Croydon tram no.2535 was named "Stephen Parascandalo" in a ceremony at the
non-preferred platform of Beckenham Junction tram stop this afternoon.

The name commemorates the founder of the unofficial Tramlink website,
signaling engineer and poster to these groups, who was killed in a car
crash in February - today's naming was on what would have been his 27th
birthday.

Tramlink general manager Roger Harding said the board had been unanimous
in wanting to commemorate Stephen, and the contribution the website -
http://www.croydon-tramlink.co.uk - had made in "capturing the imagination
of everyone" involved with Tramlink.

Interesting how things turn out - IIRC Tramlink's 'learned friends' were
writing to Stephen at one stage a few years ago...

It was Bombardier, rather than Tramlink, which caused the removal of the
news.

From talking to him I knew a little bit more about what the issue was
than I'll put on a newsgroup, and while IANAL it looked to me like he
could pretty safely have told them to go forth and multiply. But quite
understandably, he didn't want to pick a fight with them.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK