Chapel-en-le-Frith
The plaque on the wall of the former station building at Chapel-en-le-Frith commemorating John Axon GC and John Creamer. [Railscot note: On 9 February 1957, driver Axon's freight train was returning from Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District to his home depot at Edgeley, Stockport, when the steam brake pipe fractured. Despite exposure to scalding steam, he urged his fireman to jump to safety and hung on the outside of the cab as the train picked up speed, reaching 80mph down a long incline. His shouted warning to the signalman at Doveholes enabled a DMU at Chapel-en-le-Frith to be moved to safety but his own life was lost as his engine crashed into the rear of a freight train there. John Creamer, the guard on the second train, also died in the crash. John Axon was posthumously awarded the George Cross.]
Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith
Original line: Buxton Extension (Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway)
Photographer: John McIntyre
Contact photographer: John McIntyre
Date: 13/05/2009
Image number: 23666
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