Due to public demand, 'Poppies to Paddington' will be taking place again this year, with the train departing Penzance at 5:05am.
Last year saw the first ‘Poppies to Paddington’ at a time where most Remembrance events across the Duchy and in the capital were suspended because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Swathes of poppy wreaths were placed on GWR trains and carried to London Paddington station from across the country on Remembrance Day.
Poppies to Paddington is a joint venture between GWR and The Veterans Charity to keep Remembrance moving in 2021’.
Mayor of Penzance, Cllr Jonathan How, will be amongst the first to lay a wreath on the Penzance to London train service as part of Great Western Railway's 'Poppies to Paddington' event.
The event was well supported and earned GWR an award from Armed Forces Community Lockdown Awards as the Most Supportive Business to the Armed Forces during Lockdown.
“Poppies to Paddington gives us a modern-day echo of the long train ride from Penzance Station that began so many people’s journey to war. We must never forget that quite a number of those same people suffered horrific injuries while others never returned at all” said Cllr Jonathan How, Mayor of Penzance.
“As the poppies coalesce at Paddington it’s important to remember, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, that ‘Jaw-Jaw can never be as bad as War-War’."
The Mayor will be joining Derek Thomas MP and representatives of Armed Forces charities at Penzance Station ahead of the train's departure at 05:05am on Thursday, November 11
On arrival at Paddington, the wreaths will be placed at the station’s iconic war memorial, on Platform One, in time for the Remembrance Day service at 11:00am.
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