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Nicola Sturgeon joins one-minute silence for Stonehaven disaster victims

2020-08-19 3 Dailymotion

Passengers and staff at railway stations around the UK have held a one-minute silence to remember the victims of last week's Stonehaven train crash.<br />Driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the 6.38am Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street train crashed into a landslide across the tracks on Wednesday August 12.<br />Six other people were injured.<br />Stations fell silent at 9.43am on Wednesday, exactly one week after the derailment was reported.<br />A wreath was laid at Aberdeen station, while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Transport Secretary Michael Matheson attended the silence at Edinburgh Waverley station.<br />Many English and Welsh stations joined the tribute and the Scottish Parliament also marked the minute's silence.<br />At London Waterloo, a number of Network Rail staff stood underneath the station's clock in a circle with their heads bowed.<br />Conservative MP Huw Merriman, chairman of the Commons Transport Select Committee, was among those to pay their respects, alongside a handful of passengers, British Transport Police officers and station staff.<br />Ahead of the event, Ms Sturgeon tweeted: "I will join @ScotRail and others in Waverley Railway Station at 09.43 this morning, to remember those who lost their lives in the Stonehaven tragedy one week ago.<br />"We will remember Brett, Donald and Christopher and hold their loved ones in our thoughts."<br />Investigators have said the train derailed and slid approximately 90 metres before hitting and destroying a barrier on the edge of a bridge, leading the front power car and one carriage to fall down an embankment.<br />ScotRail managing director Alex Hynes said: "Our hearts remain broken and will do for a long time.<br />"We hope that by coming together as a railway family, along with the local community and people across the country, we can support one another through this horrendous time."<br />Fire crew members and Fire Brigades Union (FBU) officials laid three bouquets of flowers at Aberdeen station on Tuesday as a mark of respect to the victims.<br />Four firefighters were injured when they were struck by an apparently uncontrolled vehicle while responding to the incident.

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