How To Use Signalman In A Sentence

  • The narrator, returning to the box shortly afterwards, finds that the signalman has been run over by a train.
  • Mr Blackman, a former railway signalman, said his son was shattered.
  • At the inquiry the motorman stated that as he approached the station, the signalman waved him in with the green flag.
  • British Rail had to post a signalman at the entrance to the tunnel.
  • The signalman's signature sign is significant to the vacant vacation.
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  • In the commotion, a signalman failed to alert an oncoming train. Will Indian Trains Ever Be Safe?
  • In total, he called the signalman three times requesting help, and another London Underground member of staff, Dave Matthews, had called once, but the line was cut off. 7/7 inquest: bomb alert was ignored, says train driver
  • On this occasion as usual we came to the surface and we were lying there trimmed down (the main ballast roughly two-thirds full), just floating, when the signalman who was up on the bridge with me remembered he had not brought up any cigarettes. A Glimpse Into A Submarine
  • The Statistical Office translated ‘railway employment’ to mean those jobs which could not be done other than on the railway - signalman, guard, platelayer, shunter, etc.
  • These 53% only amount to 37% of the total RMT members elligible to vote. being a signalman is a pretty responsible job and I find 99% of them to be sound and helpful lads, I don't want to see them screwed over or made redundant by the cnunts that are Netwank Fail management. Army Rumour Service
  • The signalman ecuwh s signature sign is signifsicant to the vacant vacation.
  • What on earth is "signalman" on about .... posted on another thread .... Army Rumour Service
  • The daughter of a signalman at the rail depot, or a career soldier who never rose as high as he should have. CHAMELEON
  • The West Berlin signalman refused to change the signals, leaving them stuck at red. WALL GAMES
  • Since the flight medic will first be lowered to the ground to continue treatment of the casualty, he becomes the primary signalman for the hoist.
  • The Signalman" by Charles Dickens (1866) This perfectly balanced, beautifully judged story both preys on both the anxiety provoked by the new technology of railways and deeply held beliefs that a ghost can be an alarum for events to follow. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories
  • Signalman should coordinate to ensure Safe Lifting Operation with proper signals.
  • You could see the local signal box with the signalman busy in it.
  • Mr Cammish started out at sea as a junior signalman in the Royal Navy in 1949 and after eight years travelling the world, he joined the Coastguard in 1957.
  • David spent more than 20 years working as a signalman on the railways.
  • You're a rifleman, a cook, a signalman... it doesn't matter how much you're promoted up the ranks: you always wear your specialty badge until the day they make you a General. Peter Samuelson: Leadership Is Not Just for Experts!
  • Occasionally, for a joke, the fireman would put the end of the staff in the firebox, making it too hot for the signalman to handle.
  • Expecting the visitor to knock to gain admittance, the signalman walked towards the door to see what the visitor wanted.
  • These are of course available only at decennial intervals, and the Statistical Office translated ‘railway employment’ to mean those jobs which could not be done other than on the railway - signalman, guard, platelayer, shunter, etc.
  • Surely you would not call a signalman unfeeling because he held out a red lamp when he knew that just round the curve beyond his cabin the rails were up, and that any train that reached the place would go over in horrid ruin. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
  • The crew consisted of the stoker and driver, the guard and assistant guard, the shunter, the station master (or should I say ‘person’) and the signalman.
  • The former Leading Seaman Signalman and the Petty Officer Quartermaster proudly broke the pennant which for the life of the ship will fly at her masthead.
  • Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
  • Signals should be made by only one signalman; more than one creates too much confusion and can be dangerous.
  • They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces.
  • Expecting the visitor to knock to gain admittance, the signalman walked towards the door to see what the visitor wanted.
  • British Rail had to post a signalman at the entrance to the tunnel.
  • Navy signalman who survived a June 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats during the Six-Day War, a raid that killed 34 crew members and wounded 171. Criticism of Israeli raid builds; hundreds still held
  • She was born, the fourth of five children of Edward and his music-loving wife Rose, nee Crook, at the close of the first world war in Coleford, on the edge of the Forest of Dean, not far from Newnham, where Denis's maternal grandfather was the stationmaster, signalman and ticket collector. Edna Healey obituary
  • The scout plane's robed signalman tapped the pilot on his right wing and gave a thumbs-up.

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