Train mad teen looks set to succeed in getting train named after Wolverhampton Wanderers after a bit of help from Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant

Nov 28 2010 by Edward Chadwick, Sunday Mercury

TRAIN-mad teenager Harry Cartwright is on track to have a locomtoive named after his favourite football team – after he got rock god Robert Plant on board.

The 14 year-old is as passionate about the railways as he is about his beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers.

And since last year he has been badgering bosses at GB Rail Freight to name a locomotive in honour of his Molineux heroes.

They have already named engines after Derby County, Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday but said they would listen to Harry’s plea – but only if he got the former Led Zeppelin frontman to agree to come an official unveiling ceremony.

Such was the schoolboy’s persistence that he collared 58 year-old Plant at the match against Arsenal earlier this month and won the backing of rock royalty.

Added to the 1,000 followers who have signed up to his Facebook group – Join If You Want To Name A Loco Wolverhampton Wanderers – it has made his campaign a runaway success that rail bosses are struggling to ignore.