A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition ...

Charles Dickens' eerie tale. A stranger on a walking holiday comes across a solitary railway signalman and they exchange truths that will profoundly affect them both. Show more In Jonathan ...

A locomotive has been named after a signalman whose quick thinking prevented a train crash 40 years ago. Willie Taylor was on duty at the Carlisle signalling centre when a freight train broke in ...

The isolation of being a signalman - and they were almost all men back then - wasn’t for everyone, but for those who didn’t mind their own company, there can be few finer occupations.

When army A wanted to communicate to army B, a signalman would wave a torch (like in Agamemnon) until it is spotted by signalman B who would then, in return, respond by waving his torch. When contact ...

With more reliability than any train service could ever hope for, Charles Dickens’ second-best ghost story pulls up into Edinburgh each year. New drivers, new crew, but each new incarnation ...

Background of Saurabh Sharma’s Espionage Activities Saurabh Sharma, formerly a signalman in the Indian Army, was found guilty of betraying his country’s trust by engaging in espionage activities.

I n solidly “what the actual f---” news, a Lotto-DSTNY driver has been suspended by the UCI for—seriously—purposefully ...

His father too was on the railways, working as a signalman, and moved to Fort William in the 1960s. “It changes all the time, every day is different,” he says. His favorite part of the route ...

The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or ...

The Battle of Saragarhi is considered one of the finest last stands in the military history of the world. On this day 21 ...