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Train horns sound as service marks 20th anniversary of Selby rail crash swindonadvertiser.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swindonadvertiser.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1/1 WREATHS have been laid at Great Heck and Newcastle Railway Station in linked acts of remembrance on the 20th anniversary of the Selby train crash. Relatives and friends of the 10 drivers, train crew and passengers who died in the crash, took part in the socially distanced ceremony via YouTube. During the brief ceremony at the garden of remembrance next to the scene, a Freightliner engine named in honour of driver Steve Dunn stood motionless on the East Coast Main Line. He was one of two drivers killed in the disaster. A LNER train driven by a colleague of the other, John Weddle, sounded its horn in a long mourning note before driving slowly past at the end of a period of silence at the end of the ceremony. ....
Selby rail disaster memorial - widow says attitude to tired driving has not changed chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Candles burning at Selby Abbey in memory of the 10 men who died in the Great Heck train disaster CANDLES have been lit on the 20th anniversary of the Great Heck train crash for each of the 10 men who died. Each candle bore the words Never forgotten . As they were lit the names of the 10 men were read out. The candles stood on the altar of Selby Abbey during a special commemorative service attended virtually by their relatives and friends, survivors and others involved in dealing with the crash s aftermath. Among the dead were GNER train driver John Weddle and Freightliner train driver Steve Dunn. ....
Selby rail crash: Disaster caused by Lincolnshire man remembered on 20th anniversary The Louth-area driver served 30 months of a five-year sentence for causing the train disaster which killed 10 men Updated (Image: PA) Wreaths will be laid today in memory of 10 people who died at the Great Heck train disaster caused by Louth-area driver Gary Hart. To mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, relatives will gather near the site of the collision between the passenger train and coal freight trains near Selby. A garden of remembrance is looked after close to the site of the collision at Great Heck, just off the M62. ....