The lost boys

Brothers reunited 58 years on after one was snatched on train

- BY SARA WALLIS TV Columnist

IN a devastating sliding doors moment, the whole course of Peter Macdonald's life was forever changed when he was snatched from a train as a baby.

Peter was just ten weeks old when his mother fled with him and his big brother Trevor, just two years old, to escape their father.

At Preston Railway Station, just as the train to London was pulling away, their father turned up on the platform, reached inside the carriage window and tried to take the children.

Trevor was protected standing behind his mother, but little Peter was taken. The train pulled away and Peter, now 58, never saw his mother again.

Before he was six months old, Peter's father put him in foster care.

Peter, a widowed painter and decorator who lives in Accrington, Lancs, says: "My father grabbed me off my mother. I was in her arms, two-and-ahalf months old. That was the last time I was with Trevor. I've always wanted to find him."