A steam railway enthusiast was crushed to death after a locomotive slipped into the wrong gear, trapping him between carriages, an inquest has heard.
Retired police officer Robert Lund, 65, died almost instantly from "extreme" chest and abdominal injuries, North Yorkshire Coroners' Court in Scarborough was told.
Mr Lund, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, was working as a guard on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway when he was fatally injured at Grosmont station on May 21 last year.
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