A REMEMBRANCE ceremony has been held at a Cumbrian railway station where a police officer was killed by a Warrington gunman 50 years ago.

PC George Russell was shot dead at Oxenholme Station on February 10, 1965, by fugitive John Middleton.

PC Russell was one of three officers sent to the station to search for Middleton, who had evaded capture in Cheshire.

The officers discovered the gunman in the waiting room.

In what was described as a ‘terrifying standoff,’ the gunman kept opening the waiting room door to fire at officers.

One of the shots hit PC Russell, who died of his injuries two hours later in hospital.

The father-of-two, who is buried in Carlisle, was posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal.

Middleton shot himself but survived and was later committed to a psychiatric hospital.