HERITAGE railway staff are searching for a bugler to play at the Remembrance service honouring rail workers killed during the First and Second World Wars.

The service marking the sacrifice by civilian rail workers during the two wars is held each year, at Severn Valley Railway but will be without a bugler this year unless someone steps forward to fill the breach.

John Leach, SVR marketing manger, said: "The person who has done it in the past isn't available. We used to have a student who bugled and he was excellent but, being a student, he has now gone off to university.

"As a last resort we will have to use a DVD recording."

Any would-be bugler would need to provide their own instrument, be able to play Last Post and Reveille and make themselves available for the service, on Sunday, November 11.

Rev Sandy Kirkwood, railway chaplain, is leading the service, beginning at 10.45am, in the SVR concourse at Kidderminster railway station.

The Great Western Railway paper memorial will be taken out of its glass cover, at the station, and the listed names of West Midlands railwaymen who died in both world wars read out to the assembled audience.

More than 60 people attended the poignant ceremony in 2006.

People wishing to offer their services as bugler on the day should contact Andrew Harding, at SVR, on 01299 403816.