DOUGIE NICOLSON, COURIER, 20/04/11, NEWS.
DATE - Wednesday 20th April 2011.
LOCATION - Leslie Cemetery, Fife.
EVENT - Unveiling of memorial headstone to David Mitchell, driver of the locomotive of the train in the Tay Bridge Disaster.
INFO - The headstone with piper John Douglas Winton, from Buckhaven, playing in the background
STORY BY - Craig, Kirkcaldy office.
Enthusiasts hoping to create a lasting memorial to those who died in the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster of 1879 have uncovered another relative of one of the victims.
The Tay Rail Bridge Disaster Memorial Trust, which is trying to raise funds for a tribute on both sides of the Tay, has received contact from James Marshall of Crook of Devon, who is the grand nephew of John Marshall of Ceres, the train’s stoker/fireman.
After seeing stories in The Courier, Mr Marshall got in touch with Ian Nimmo White from the TRBDMT and is now helping with their investigations.
