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24 NOVEMBER 2023 GLENFIELD GAZETTE THE TRACKMAN by Ted Cook THE PERMANENT WAY Gang made their way towards the tunnel entrance. They stopped at the entrance to ring the Signalman. Now in accordance with the rules, both the Ganger in charge of the workers and the Signalman should fill out a form so as to block the line the gang wanted to work on to prevent any trains entering the tunnel while they were in the tunnel. Unfortunately both the Ganger and the Signalman are both in a hurry to get on with things and the Ganger manages to convince the Signalman that they could fill the form in later. So the Signalman told the Ganger to carry on with his work and he would give him 15 minutes to ring back to give the line back for trains to run. Now where the Signalman worked was a large power signal box and the Signalman who had granted permission for the work to start was now relieved in the signal box to go on his break and he forgot to advise his relief of the gang working in the tunnel. Another unfortunate event was the arrival of a special engineering train that had to be routed through the tunnel where the men were working. Now if the first Signalman had done his job right there would be a block on the line through the tunnel and the train would have to wait for the block to be lifted either after the 15 minutes or before if the gang gave up the block before time. So as the relieving Signalman did not know about the Gang working in the tunnel, and also the first Signalman had also failed to put a stop on the signal protecting the tunnel entrance, the scene was set for a disaster. The Signalman set the route through the tunnel for the Engineering Train even though there were men working in the tunnel. As the train entered the tunnel the Driver whistled. The Gang in the tunnel heard it and were gripped with fear. They started to run as fast as they could out of the tunnel each man for themselves. There were five men in the gang and all but one made it out of the tunnel before the train rushed by. The Ganger ran back into the tunnel fateful of what he might find! To his great relief as he started into the tunnel he found his missing worker staggering out into the daylight! “What happened?” asked the Ganger. The Worker leaned against the outer wall of the tunnel. “I ..I..do not know for sure” he stammered. “I was running out of the tunnel with the rest of you to get away from that train when I tripped and fell onto the ballast between the rails on the same line as the train!” “So how come you survived? Did you lay still and let the train go over you?” asked the Ganger. “No if I had I would not have survived that train had hopper wagons with slides for the ballast to unload and it would have hit me had I been in the track!” the worker was not making any sense to the Ganger. “So how did you avoid being killed?” asked the Ganger still disbelieving the story he was hearing. “You are not going to believe me but someone picked me up and pushed me into the recess in the tunnel wall” the track worker said. “And do not ask me who as I know I was the last man so who this was that picked me up I have no idea!” “If someone picked you up where did they go and where are they now?” asked the Ganger still uncertain that his man was telling the true story. “He just shouted stay there until the train has passed and then just sort of disappeared!” the worker replied himself thinking this story took some believing! “Just disappeared!” repeated the Ganger. “How can someone just disappear? Did he fall in front of the train?” “I do not know. Like I say I did not see.” The track Worker tried to explain. “As soon as I was in the recess the train rattled by!” “So by the sound of it whoever this was must have been hit by the train” stated the Ganger with a sad look at the Worker. “Well we will have to go back and MARKFIELD LOCAL HISTORY GROUP Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 7.30pm At Markfield Methodist Church, Main Street, Markfield LE67 9UU RESEARCHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY Are you interested in learning about your family history but don’t know where to start? Have you perhaps made a start but would like to take it further? Or you may have already researched your family history but might find a little nugget of information you didn’t know! Vanessa Morgan is a genealogist, author, and historian with many years of experience. This promises to be a very interesting talk and who knows what this may lead to you finding out about your family! £3 for visitors or become a member for £8 per year and then no additional charge for talks/activities. www.markfieldhistory.org – FB Bygone Markfield see he might still be alive even if seriously injured,” the Track Worker suggested. The Ganger agreed but as they made their way towards the tunnel entrance he suggested that he should ring the Signalman as something had gone wrong in the first place as there should not have been a train coming through the tunnel in the first place! On contacting the Signal Box the Signalman was amazed at what the Ganger was telling him. (This was the Signalman who had taken over while the Signalman who had agreed the work in the tunnel had his break.) The Signalman was shocked that there had been someone working in the tunnel that he did not know about! Even more so when told there might be an injured man in the tunnel. He told the Ganger that the lines through the tunnel were now blocked and to let him know as soon as possible the situation. The Ganger agreed and he and his fellow worker set off into the tunnel afraid of what they might find!! The strange thing was that in the tunnel they found nothing! So who was this person that had saved the worker and where did he come from and more importantly where did he go. Or did in fact he really exist? However some time later the Permanent Way Inspector was clearing out a cupboard when he found some old files. One caught his eye. It told of an accident in the same tunnel as mentioned previously. He read about a track worker killed in the same spot as the incident with the man that was saved. It seemed that two men working in the tunnel were caught as a train came towards them. One man was saved by the other as he threw him against the tunnel wall out of the way of the oncoming train - just as had happened years later. The difference being that in the original incident the second man did not survive and was killed by the train. Years later this man who had done the same just seemed to have disappeared and on top of that no one could say who he was or where he had come from or went! Was this perhaps some sort of manifestation of the man from years before doing the same thing of saving a life? We shall never know but to be grateful that in the later incident no one was killed! My wife and I always compromise. I admit I’m wrong and she agrees with me.
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