The first baby to be born on the NHS, Aneira Thomas, has named a Great Western Railway train in memory of Aneurin Bevan. The unveiling took place in Newport on Tuesday amid celebrations of the National Health Service's 75th anniversary.
Aneira Thomas was born at one minute past midnight on July 5, 1948, making her the first NHS baby born. To celebrate, her parents named her after the Welsh politician, Aneurin Bevan, who was the minister for health responsible for the launch of the NHS in 1948.
On Tuesday, Aneira travelled from her home in Swansea for the train-naming ceremony at Newport, the closest station GWR calls to Bevan's Ebbw Vale constituency and birthplace of Tredegar. Following the ceremony, the Aneurin Bevan train then went on to operate a service to London Paddington, calling at Swindon in Wiltshire to acknowledge the role of the town's railway industry played in the formation of the NHS.
