THE LIVERPOOL COLLISION
SICNALMANS AWFUL MISTAKE. [By Eijsotbio telegraph—Copyright [Uottkd .Press Association.] ,ff- : (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, October 16". It is reported that a boy in the central signal'hox at Liverpool, who frequently attends the telephone, answered a call on Wednesday while the signalman was busy at the levers. The signalman, thinking the message was that the first train was clear pulled the lover admitting the express to the tunnel; then, on second thoughts, he asked the boy what the message was. •• When told that it referred to another train he said it was ridiculous. When he realised his awful mistake 2 he set the lights of the tunnel against the express, but was too late.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 40, 17 October 1913, Page 6
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116THE LIVERPOOL COLLISION Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 40, 17 October 1913, Page 6
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