The Castlecary rail disaster cost 35 people their lives in a freezing snowstorm on a December Friday night in 1937. Another 179 were hurt in the tragedy when an Edinburgh to Glasgow express ploughed into a stationary train just west of Castlecary village.
An inquiry found a signalling error led the driver of the express to believe the line was clear.
For years the disaster was remembered by the local people in Castlecary with a makeshift memorial by the side of the railway. But, keen to create a fitting tribute to those who died and those who helped in the aftermath of the terrible tragedy, Castlecary Community Council created a permanent memorial in 2007, made from railway sleepers, pieces of track and a wheel from a piece of rolling stock.
It is at this memorial that the victims of the disaster will be remembered on Sunday [10 Dec 2017] evening.
