We could see quite graphically what had happened within two or three hours," he says. He was then working "12 hours a day for the next fortnight", as the operation moved from rescue to police forensic examination work.
The then-deputy Prime Minister John Prescott visited the crash site as recovery efforts continued, with a road bridge providing a grim vantage point for onlookers and media. Ben Cryer, a BBC Radio York newsreader despatched to the scene, remembers being "overloaded with images and sounds" when he arrived.
Recalling the view as he looked down from the road bridge, he says: "On the left, carriages carrying coal had burst through garden fences and a caravan, spilling the contents like a huge black blanket. It had been a lucky escape for those people living there. Mrs Dunn, who visited Great Heck the day after the crash, remembers "walking out through the farmyard towards the field where the main wreckage was".
It was a sensitive time for the rail industry, which was still recovering from fatal crashes in Hatfield in and Paddington in Coincidentally, the GNER locomotive at Selby was the same one involved at the Hatfield derailment, but investigations found no defects with the rail infrastructure, rolling stock or personnel competencies that could have contributed to the outcome at Great Heck.
Mr Graham said: "It was calculated at the time that this was a one in year event, anywhere on the network. Lessons have been learned on the highways side, John Prescott ordered a study of roads that go over railways and the recommendations of the report were enacted. Hart, from Lincolnshire, suffered only whiplash. He served 30 months of a five-year jail term after being convicted of 10 counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
A virtual memorial event will be broadcast from Great Heck and Newcastle on Sunday morning, with an online service live-streamed from Selby Abbey in the afternoon. Reflecting on her grief over the years, Mrs Dunn says: "Imagine that you're putting a big duvet into an airing cupboard and you just throw it in, and you can't shut the door on it.
You can put it in a cupboard and shut the door, but it's still the same size duvet behind the door. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs. Three dead after passenger train derails. Paddington crash survivor fears safety 'slipping'. Rail deaths driver blames 'fate'. A Newcastle to London Kings Cross passenger train hit a freight train at a closing speed of miles an hour in late February This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
She believes her life was saved by her decision to move carriages in search of a warmer seat for her early morning journey from Newcastle to London for her work as a cabin crew member with Virgin Airlines.
Mrs Reed says the aftermath of the initial impact with the Land Rover was like being in a washing machine: "Just going over and round and round, and I just remember thinking 'I'm going to die'. She said is grateful to train operator GNER and her then employer, Richard Branson, for their support after the crash - and to a therapist who helped her through the longer-lasting psychological effects.
I feel so sorry for their families," she said. Watch Live. Selby crash: Train horns sound in tribute to 10 who lost their lives in tragedy 20 years ago The crash happened after a driver fell asleep at the wheel - drifting off the motorway, down an embankment and on to a rail line. Fill 2 Copy 11 Created with Sketch.
Sunday 28 February , UK. Why you can trust Sky News. The same for the people that were on the train. They were meant to be there that morning. It's not what the truth is. No deaths occurred at the point of impact with my Land Rover. They all occurred yards down the track which I feel other people should have been held accountable for, so in my own head I've dealt with it in that fashion.
Hart's trial in on 10 counts of causing death by dangerous driving heard that he had fallen asleep and failed to brake when his Land Rover and trailer, taking a car to a buyer in Lancashire, slewed off the M62 at Great Heck near Selby and on to the rail tracks. He got out and was phoning when the car was hit by a high speed train to London, which derailed and smashed into a heavily laden coal train coming in the opposite direction.
Both train drivers were killed, along with two other rail staff and six passengers, among them Steve Baldwin, a professor renowned for his work on children's behavioural problems.
The family of Steve Dunn, who was 39 and driving the coal train, paid tribute to Steve before lighting candles at a memorial service in St Paul's church, Henshall, near the crash scene.
Dunn's son James, who was nine at the time and now drives London underground engineering trains, joined his mother, Mary, and brother Andrew in saying: "Today we will be thinking of Steve, the husband and daddy, who died doing the job he considered a paid hobby.
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