Rail disaster remembered with heritage event in Swinton

By Michael Upton
Published 13th Jul 2018, 11:36 BST
Updated 13th Jul 2018, 11:38 BST
Pictured are members of the train drivers family (front, from left to right), David Wilsher (son), along with grandsons Tony, Graham and Dean Wilsher. Looking on are organisers of the event (from left to right), Mike Brearley, Ken Wyatt and Giles BrearleyPictured are members of the train drivers family (front, from left to right), David Wilsher (son), along with grandsons Tony, Graham and Dean Wilsher. Looking on are organisers of the event (from left to right), Mike Brearley, Ken Wyatt and Giles Brearley
Pictured are members of the train drivers family (front, from left to right), David Wilsher (son), along with grandsons Tony, Graham and Dean Wilsher. Looking on are organisers of the event (from left to right), Mike Brearley, Ken Wyatt and Giles Brearley
HISTORIANS gathered to mark the anniversary of a major rail disaster with an event featuring talks, display and rides to the crash scene.

Swinton Heritage Group organised the special exhibtion on Saturday at the village’s LNER Club to mark the 70th anniversary of the Wath/Manvers rail disaster of 1948.

Six people died in the crash while one passenger and the driver died later from their injuries.

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Among those who came forward to share their memories were the family of a nurse who cared for crash survivors, a man who can remember being taken to see the recovery work by his coal miner father and a woman who recalled how she lived nearby and could remember the terrible noise and commotion.

 

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