Black plaque № 10492

Purton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

This plaque was erected to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Severn & Wye Railway Bridge disaster which was struck and partially destroyed during the night of the 25th. October 1960 by two John Harker tankers. Dedicated to the memory of the five crew who were lost, the three survivors and

the many gallant rescuers who together played a part in the tragic events of that fateful fogbound night. George Thompson, Percy Simmonds, Robert Nibblett, George Cooper, James Dew, Jack Dudfield, Ale

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