I write in response to your reports (March 1 and 2) of the dedication ceremonies for the Great Heck Memorial Garden established in memory of those killed or injured in the rail crash last year.

Moved to sympathy as I was, on reading of the deaths of ten innocent people and the suffering of many others from this disaster, my sympathy was tinged with anger that another promised memorial in memory of some 90-plus individuals killed on the railways has not yet materialised.

I refer to the York Carriageworks memorial monument, about which I attended a meeting in 1997 at York Guildhall along with the widows of three carriageworks colleagues and representatives of York Regeneration Partnership city council officers.

Despite promises made at that meeting, a design competition for a monument and funding for construction, neither the three widows who attended nor myself have heard anything further on the matter.

Perhaps you would ask the council or York Regeneration Partnership what, if anything, is going on and where is our memorial to those who lived and died for the carriageworks. We should be told.

Paul W Cooper,

Branch Secretary,

T&GWU York 413 Branch - VB and A Group,

Kingsway West,

Acomb, York.

Updated: 10:30 Thursday, March 14, 2002