John Axon
John Axon GC ( 4 December 1900 – 9 February 1957 ) was an English train driver from Stockport ( Edgeley Depot ) who died while trying to stop a runaway freight train on a 1 in 58 gradient at Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire after a brake failure . 
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