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Many signal boxes are fitted with closing levers, particularly boxes that are there for headway purposes rather than in continual use for say shunting or for a junction.
Had Manor House cabin been one of these, then the ill signalman would have been able to close the box, while trains continued to operate between the boxes on either side, albeit at longer headways.
Closing a box because the signalman is ill or otherwise indisposed is entirely within the rules, and quite safe.
Tabletop 03:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't the marker seem like its in an odd place? Its the middle of downtown, with no railroad lines, or evidence of a 'road', anywhere nearby. -- 98.232.178.38 ( talk) 01:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
39 or 43? The factbox and article have two different numbers for the injured. Which is correct? Jasonfward ( talk) 15:05, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Major Marindin RE in his official report states that 9 passengers and one guard were killed. He also states that 39 passengers were injured. The driver and fireman of the express were badly injured. The two guards of the express were shaken - one badly and one less so. The article ambiguously states that 39 were injured without explicitly stating that these were passengers. Later in his official report (p206) Major Marindin does state that 10 were killed and 43 others were injured. This is strange because by 1892 standards being 'shaken' is not the same as injured. It seems the good Major was a modern thinking man who knew about PTSD (or shell shock as it was called). I have edited the article by adding 4 train crew injured. OrewaTel ( talk) 01:37, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
So what happened to Mr Holmes afterwards? Did he stay on as a signalman? Go mad from the strain? Marnanel ( talk) 22:48, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
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Many signal boxes are fitted with closing levers, particularly boxes that are there for headway purposes rather than in continual use for say shunting or for a junction.
Had Manor House cabin been one of these, then the ill signalman would have been able to close the box, while trains continued to operate between the boxes on either side, albeit at longer headways.
Closing a box because the signalman is ill or otherwise indisposed is entirely within the rules, and quite safe.
Tabletop 03:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't the marker seem like its in an odd place? Its the middle of downtown, with no railroad lines, or evidence of a 'road', anywhere nearby. -- 98.232.178.38 ( talk) 01:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
39 or 43? The factbox and article have two different numbers for the injured. Which is correct? Jasonfward ( talk) 15:05, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Major Marindin RE in his official report states that 9 passengers and one guard were killed. He also states that 39 passengers were injured. The driver and fireman of the express were badly injured. The two guards of the express were shaken - one badly and one less so. The article ambiguously states that 39 were injured without explicitly stating that these were passengers. Later in his official report (p206) Major Marindin does state that 10 were killed and 43 others were injured. This is strange because by 1892 standards being 'shaken' is not the same as injured. It seems the good Major was a modern thinking man who knew about PTSD (or shell shock as it was called). I have edited the article by adding 4 train crew injured. OrewaTel ( talk) 01:37, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
So what happened to Mr Holmes afterwards? Did he stay on as a signalman? Go mad from the strain? Marnanel ( talk) 22:48, 30 March 2014 (UTC)