Stokers and pokers : $b or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-houseHead, Francis Bond, Sir
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Stokers and pokers : $b or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-house
Head, Francis Bond, Sir
London and North-Western Railway; Railway Clearing House (London, England); Telegraph -- Great Britain
5. In case of the stoppage of either Line of Rail from any cause, or
there being any danger apprehended in the passage of an Engine or
Train, whether in Foggy Weather or otherwise, the Station Police,
Signal, Switch, or Tunnel man, is to place one of these Signals on
the Line or Lines of Rail so obstructed, every 200 yards from the
point of danger, until the Line or Lines of Rail are so protected for
half a mile.
6. In Foggy Weather these Signals are to be similarly used whenever
an Engine or Train is following, or likely to follow, too closely
upon another Engine or Train, or in cases of emergency or great
danger.
7. Whenever an Engine passes over one of these Signals, the
Engine-Driver is immediately to stop the Train, and the Guards are to
protect their Train by sending back and placing a Signal on the Line
every 200 yards, to the distance of 600 yards; the Train may then
proceed slowly to the place of obstruction.
8. After the obstruction of the Line is removed, the Guards, Police,
or Engine-Driver, must remove all the Signals from the Rails before
proceeding.
9. Each Guard, Policeman, and Pointsman, not at a Station, and all
Enginemen, Gatemen, Foremen of Works, Gangers of Plate-Layers, and
Tunnelmen, will be provided with packets of Signals, which they are
always to have ready for use whilst on duty; and every Officer in
charge of a Station will be provided with these Signals, which are
to be kept in an unlocked drawer or shelf in the counter, in order
that they may at all times be easy of access to all on duty at the
Station: and every person connected with the Station shall be made
acquainted with the place where they are deposited.
10. All the persons above named will be held responsible for their
having the proper supply of Fog Signals; when one or more are
expended, it is their duty immediately to apply to the Superintendent
of their section for a further supply to keep up the stock as above
directed.
SECTION IV.
REGULATIONS FOR ENGINEMEN.
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