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Stop the Train is a 2001 children's novel by Geraldine McCaughrean. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award, [1] as well as being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Stockton Children's Book of the Year. [2] [3]
A train belonging to The West Indian Fast Mail was stopped north of Monroe Junction, two of the men forced the fireman and train engineer, a man known only as Dumas, to stop the train. The other men attempted to enter the express car but were stopped by two men W. N. Saunders and I. M. Cox, Saunders was shot in the breast and later died.
To stop the train that was heading towards the boulders, he ran in front of it, removed his clothes and set fire to them on a stick. However, the train did not stop and he had to fire several bullets into the air with his hunting gun to notify the train drivers.
A traffic alert said: “Train traffic is disrupted on the South East high-speed line following an accident involving a person south of Paris. Firefighters are on the scene.” The gendarmerie and ...
The system is calibrated to stop the train somewhere within the "Positive Stop Zone", which extends up to 1000 feet from the absolute stop signal itself. To pass the stop signal or otherwise move the train in absence of a more favorable signal indication a Stop Release button must be engaged by the engineer before the brakes can be released.
The train ran through two signals and immediately derailed; the automatic derailer was designed to knock the wheels off the track so that the resistance of the ties and ballast against the train's wheels would bring a slow-moving derailed train to a stop. Train No. 3314, although derailed, was moving at such a great speed that it did not have ...
The two would leave horses at the spot where they intended to stop the train and would then walk back to the depot and secretly board the train. When the train neared the spot with the waiting horses, the bandits would burst forth from their hiding locations and order the engineer to halt the train; they would dynamite the express car to gain ...
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