Slide set: In the signal box (recitation: York & Son, 6 slides, 1886)
“Life Models.”
“Life Models.”
“A splendid tale of duty done magnificently: a signalman saving the lives of a whole train-load at the risk of his darling child. By G.R. Sims.”
“By G. R. Sims. The Stationmaster's story of doing his duty when in the signal box at the expense, he believes, of his own child's life, but, as it turns out, really saving both the child and its mother.”
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