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Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
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"""The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"
Author | : Kenneth L. Van Auken |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : KT Johnston |
Publisher | : Capstone Editions |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1684460883 |
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Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with his disability but desperate to keep his job, Jim discovered a brilliant solution, a baboon named Jack. Jim trained Jack to help him both at home and at the depot. But when the railway authorities and the public discovered a monkey on the job, Jack and Jim had to work together to convince everyone that they made a great team. This inspiring true story celebrates the history of service animals and a devoted friendship.
Author | : Kenneth L. Van Auken |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-07-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781330565582 |
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Excerpt from The Signalman and His Work The story of how man has wrested from nature its secrets and applied them for the benefit of the human race is an ever-lengthening-out story of the manner in which man has risen from savagery and barbarism to that state of society which we enjoy today and which we term civilization. We have made progress as we have accumulated knowledge, and when we began the distribution of knowledge we accelerated this progress. The fact that there is a certain amount of information in the world becomes of value only when it is made of utmost use. Undoubtedly this was the underlying thought at the recent Convention of our Brotherhood, and the thought most immediately in our minds was that we as an organization would grow and expand and develop in just such proportion as our individual members added to their fund of knowledge of the art of signaling and its practical application. Eighty years ago Hugh Miller, the Scotch stonemason and quarryman, who became a famous geologist, wrote "The Old Red Sandstone," and in this book he said, "And do not let any class get ahead of you in intelligence." The high standard set by the railroad signalmen is very generally recognized. What we did in our action at the Convention in regard to an educational program was with the idea of increasing the knowledge of signal service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2015-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782832262 |
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On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty. Dickens was profoundly affected by the disaster, and a year later, he published The Signalman, a supremely atmospheric ghost story in which the narrator, while investigating a dank and lonely railway cutting, meets the signalman who works there. His new acquaintance appears to live under the shadow of an unbearable secret, haunted by an apparition whose appearance prefigures terrible rail accidents. Drawing on Dickens own experiences, and introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways, The Signalman is both an important piece of rail history, and a sinister tale which will make you think twice next time you enter the quiet carriage.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Kenneth L Van Auken |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
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ISBN | : 9781357008796 |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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