SLEPT AT HIS POST
SIGNALMAN’S TRAGIC DEED CAUSE OF RAILWAY DISASTER By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. Received March 26, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, March 25. The Morning Post’s Paris correspondent says: After the collision between the Ostend express and a goods train, an inspector employed at Benesdorff station went to the signal box to make enquiries. He was astounded to find the signalman, Jean Farney, fast asleep. He shook him violently, shouting, “Come and sec what you have done.” Before the examining magistrate Farney confessed that after switching the goods train on to the siding he fell asleep owing to fatigue, and omitted to re-open the points for the express. Farney was thereupon arrested.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18974, 27 March 1924, Page 5
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