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Radio Cumbria,3 mins

Side-tracking the Carlisle train disaster

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In 1984 signalman Bill Taylor averted a rail crash when a freight train split in two, it was his quick thinking and professionalism that saved many lives in Carlisle station, as it hurtled down the track. Now forty years on a railway locomotive is being named in his memory.

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