Railpage: Mates fulfill train driver’s dying wish on steam journey to Warrnambool

Trevor Kruger always said that when he died he wanted his ashes to be put through the firebox of a steam train while it was travelling through Garvoc, and on Saturday he got his wish.

His sister Jenny Doreian and sister-in-law Kath Kruger watched from the guard’s van of the R711 as the smoke went past.

“It was emotional. It’s a beautiful thing,” Mrs Doreian said.

“He wanted to be put into the firebox and chuffed out coming up the hill at Garvoc. This is what he’s always wanted to do.

“Trains were his life. He was train mad.”

In December 2016, Mr Kruger was in Albury to train a young train driver when, after having lunch with the station master, he had a heart attack and died in the car park of the shopping centre aged 63.

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