43 Frank’s Lane, Chesterton

History of 43 Frank's Lane

1962

Edward Charles Dyson

1 April 1962
Police are searching for a silver-grey American car which smashed down level crossing gates in Milton Road. Crossing keeper, Edward Dyson, had just closed the gates ready for the train when a large American car coming from the Milton direction rammed them. It reversed and headed back the way it had come. Members of the Cambridge City Reserves football team returning from their evening match at King’s Lynn left their coach and helped drag parts of the broken gates from the rails. Mr Dyson telephoned Chesterton Junction and had a goods train diverted through Ely.

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Chesterton Scrapbook, reference 62 04 01a.