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'In memory of Lieutenant Jenny Lewis RN' In bright summer sunshine Swanage Railway based, D6515 'Lt Jenny Lewis RN' is pictured clagging away from Platform 4 of Keighley Station whilst hauling a mid-morning service to Oxenhope during the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Diesel Gala with a heavily laden rake of coaches. The locomotive is named in memory of Lieutenant Jenny Lewis RN was killed when the Westland Lynx helicopter (XZ256), attached to the Royal Navy frigate HMS Richmond, she was co-pilot on, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 12th June 2002. The aircraft suffered a doulbe engine failure whilst returning to the frigate following completion of an air-to-ship missile live firing exercise. The helicopter went down approximately 200 miles off the eastern seaboard of the United States, and required the deepest salvage operation ever undertaken by the MoD. Both the wreckage and the body of Lieutenant Rod Skidmore were recovered, but Jenny Lewis's body was never found, leading the coroner to express regret that he was only permitted in law to record a verdict on Skidmore, of accidental death. On 12 June 2014, 12 years to the day after the crash, Lewis's death was commemorated by a flypast over Swanage station by a Lynx from RNAS Yeovilton, and the renaming of the preserved British Rail Class 33 diesel-electric locomotive No. D6515 to Lt Jenny Lewis RN. #KWVRDieselGala #Class33 #D6515 #KeighleyWorthValleyRailway #SwanageRailway #RoyalNavy