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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Signal Box at Quinton's Hill
George Meakin was on the night shift at Quinton's Hill, Scotland. He should have handed over to day shift signalman James Tinsley. They'd been doing shifts in this signal box for years and were friends. So they agreed between themselves that whoever was on the day shift would sleep for a bit longer - not six o'clock sharp. For Tinsley, this arrangement had an additional benefit: he could sometimes come to work on a slow local train. That morning, May 22, 1915, James TInsley hitched a ride to work on the local train. It arrived at Quinton't Hill at half past six. The local train ground to a halt;
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