West Midlands Railway held a community competition to name a train running on one of the world’s shortest branch lines.

The train has been named “The Stourbridge Lion”, which commemorates an early steam locomotive built in 1829.

It joins another shuttle named ‘George The Station Cat’ earlier this year.

The Stourbridge Lion nameplate was given to unit 139001 earlier this month.

“We are proud to be at the heart of our communities and this new name for our popular Stourbridge Shuttle reflects the long-standing connection between the Black Country and the railway. We’re almost coming to the end of Railway 200, a year-long celebration of two centuries of the modern railway, so we felt this name suggestion was a particularly timely reminder of Stourbridge’s industrial history.”

Jonny Wiseman, WMR customer experience director