A PLAQUE to commemorate a steam train driver who sacrificed his life to prevent a disaster is to be put up at a railway station. Fifty years ago, father-of-two John Axon, from Edgeley, Stockport ...

A plaque to John Axon, from Edgeley, Stockport, who remained at the controls of his runaway train as it careered towards Chapel-en-le-Frith, has been unveiled by his grand-daughter Melanie at the ...