British train driver, posthumous recipient of the George Cross
This article is about the engine driver. For the actor, see John Axon (actor).
John Axon
Born
(1900-12-04)4 December 1900
Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died
9 February 1957(1957-02-09) (aged 56)
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England Cremated at Stockport Crematorium
Occupation
Train driver
John Axon GC (4 December 1900 – 9 February 1957)[1] was an English train driver from Stockport (Edgeley Depot) who died while trying to stop a runaway freight train on a 1 in 58 gradient at Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire after a brake failure. The train consisted of an ex-LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 No. 48188 hauling 33 wagons and a brake van.
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Axon terminals (also called synaptic boutons, presynaptic terminals, or end-feet) are distal terminations of the branches of an axon. An axon, also called...
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and continues into the late-20s. During the pruning of a synapse, both the axon and the dendrite decay and die off. Synaptic pruning was traditionally considered...
the axon. At the majority of synapses, signals cross from the axon of one neuron to a dendrite of another. However, synapses can connect an axon to another...
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of which have an axon. An axon is the long stem-like part of the cell that sends action potentials to the next cell. Bundles of axons make up the nerves...
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assisting—the propagation of signals along the neuron's axon toward synaptic boutons situated at the ends of an axon; these signals can then connect with other neurons...
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trigger a signal. Once this threshold is reached, a signal is passed along the axon of the neuron into the spinal cord. Nociceptive threshold testing deliberately...
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the axon. The cell body resides in the spinal cord and the axon extends all the way to the innervation target of the nerve. Peripheral nerve axons can...
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