Memorial

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On 10th December 1937, eighty years ago today, 35 people were killed and 179 were injured when an Edinburgh to Glasgow express train crashed into a stationary train just west of Castlecary village. The other train, travelling from Dundee to Glasgow Queen Street and which had been running late, had stopped at signals when the express train rammed into the back of it with tragic and horrendous consequences.

A makeshift memorial was created soon afterwards, but in 2008 Castlecary Community Council created a permanent memorial made from railway sleepers, pieces of track and a wheel from a piece of rolling stock (see extra photos).