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Rail union marks loss of workers at Tebay

FRIENDS, family, colleagues and campaigners will attend the Tebay memorial on Sunday to commemorate the loss of four rail workers who died 12 years ago.

The workers, members of the RMT rail union, were killed by a runaway wagon in Cumbria on February 15 2004.

The commemoration will include the demand “never again.”

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