Person    | Male  Born 4/11/1959  Died 5/10/1999

Neil Dowse

Categories: Tragedy

Neil Dowse

A sheet metal worker, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 39.

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Neil Bernard Dowse was born on 4 November 1959. He was a sheet metal worker who worked in Slough, Berkshire. He was the father of two children but was divorced from his wife and was living with his girlfriend, Gloria, at 19 Forestholme Close, Taymount Rise,  Forest Hill, south-east London. He died, aged 39 years, on 5 October 1999, when travelling aboard the 8.06am Thames Trains Turbo train from Paddington to Bedwyn, Wiltshire, in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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