QUEER "EMERGENCIES"
I Every year on the British railways about 200 passengers stop trains by pulling the communication cord. In the great majority of cases they do so as a result of genuine distress, such as sudden illness or accident. In other cases they incur the "penalty for improper u«e, £5." The most common offenders are persons who have boarded the wrong trains or been carried past their stations. On one occasion an elderly woman was leaning out of p. compartment window calling good-bye to friends. As the train moved off, she leaned out further and further. As she was shouting her last and loudest good-bye her false teeth dropped out, and she immediately pulled the communication cord in order to retrieve them. About sixty years ago an aged woman pulled the cord and ordered j the guard sternly to tell the driver he going too fast.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 8
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