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Thread #88675 Message #1665152
Posted By: Abby Sale
09-Feb-06 - 08:11 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Feb 9 (John Axon killed)
Subject: happy? – Feb 9 (John Axon killed)
On the 9th of February 1957, the 11:05 am freight train from Buxton to Arplay got out of control as it was descending a steep incline on the down line, and overtook and collided violently with the rear of the 8:45 am freight train from Rosely to Edgeley.
Driver John "Jack" Axon and the guard of the Rosely freight train were killed.
The Ewan MacColl/Charles Parker/Peggy Seeger, "The Ballad of John Axon" aired as the first Radio Ballad on the BBC July 2, 1958.