SIGNALMAN ASLEEP.
TRAIN DELAYED TWO HOURS. WELSH RAILWAY COMEDY. LONDON, October 17. After an excursion train, which was returning from Manchester to Barmouth, Wales, with 500 people on board, had waited nearly two hours near a lonely signal-box, in the Welsh hills, one of the train crew borrowed a bicycle and rode five miles to Dwffryn, to discover what the trouble was. 'He found that the signalman had forgotten the train, had locked the points at midnight, and had gone to bed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 17, 1 November 1928, Page 3
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