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43139 Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950 - 6 November 2004 at Reading.
Tuesday 4th October 2005 at Reading Station and 43139 at the head of a west bound service.
This locomotive is named Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950 - 6 November 2004. Stan Martin died when the driver of the train involved in the Ufton Nervet Rail Crash (also known as the Berkshire Rail Crash) when it hit a car parked on a level crossing. As well as Stan Martin the driver of the car and 5 passengers on the train were killed. About half of the 200 passengers on the train were injured, 12 of them seriously and 11 people had to be cut free from the wreckage. The subsequent inquest found that the accident was caused by the driver of the car who stopped his car there to commit suicide.
43139 Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950 - 6 November 2004 at Reading.
Tuesday 4th October 2005 at Reading Station and 43139 at the head of a west bound service.
This locomotive is named Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950 - 6 November 2004. Stan Martin died when the driver of the train involved in the Ufton Nervet Rail Crash (also known as the Berkshire Rail Crash) when it hit a car parked on a level crossing. As well as Stan Martin the driver of the car and 5 passengers on the train were killed. About half of the 200 passengers on the train were injured, 12 of them seriously and 11 people had to be cut free from the wreckage. The subsequent inquest found that the accident was caused by the driver of the car who stopped his car there to commit suicide.