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Sample Quote
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"Under such circumstances, a little extra speed and want of judgment on the part of an engine-driver, expected to keep time with a fast-running train, in passing a distant-signal at danger, when he is mistaken as to the cause for which it is exhibited, or is unable, in consequence of a bridge or a cutting, as in the present instance, to see for any great distance the obstruction of which it is intended to warn him, may at any time lead to a serious collision; and it is on account of dangers of this description, and of other descriptions connected with the system of working by time intervals, that recommendations have so frequently and so strongly been made from the Board of Trade to substitute for this system of time-intervals the block-system of telegraph working, under which intervals of space are secured between trains following each other on the same line of rails. If the block system had been in force on this section of railway, and had been properly worked, the home and distant signals of the Cononley station would both have been kept at danger against the mail train until the excursion-train had passed the Kildwick station, and there would not have been the same risk of such a collision."
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