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1  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: The Lollipop Express train crash remembered 50 years on (BBC News) on: June 01, 2014, 18:08:02
My Sister Christine age 9 was one of the 3 killed that day.

My parents 88 & 87 are still living in Stafford together with several of the children who were injured that day.

The anniversary is being marked by the organising Church and School, St Austin's in Stafford on June 6th @ 10am followed by the planting of memorial rose bushes in the school remembrance garden.
I beleive BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Midlands Today and several news media photographers will be in attendance.

I would like to invite anyone who wishes to attend to please do so and if you also know anyone associated with the crash, please pass the message on. If you cannot attend but wish to receive any further information or photographs please do not hesitate to contact me

Many thanks to all those who have treated this occasion with appropriate respect and reverence.

 
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