Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 252
e of the absence of cochinealinsects; but a spider stopped a train on the MidlandGreat Western line in Ireland on June 4, 1908.The signalling between Ballyhaise Junction andBelturbet is worked by means of an electricalapparatus, and a spider getting into the instrumentbetween the contact points and… … ALL CHANGE! 187 difficulty is to make a selection. At Camden Towngoods station a niglit-watchman saw a dimly out-lined figure skulking in the shadows. The manwas instantly on the qui vive; and slowly andstealthily he dogged the intruder, until in a darkcorner he was able to pounce upon the…
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