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Bargery Number 654
Music (Given or Suggested) Poem
Printer or Publisher Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
Author G. C.
Latest Date 1900
Evidence for Latest Date Publication date
Source of Text Railway Review, February 9th, 1900 p7
Roud Not in the Roud Index
First Line You would look weary and worn,
Variant Set No variants found
Source Title None given
Other Imprints No other imprints found
Origin Trades Union Journal

Weary Signalman

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You would look weary and worn,
Almost too tired to speak,
If you worked twelve hours in a day,
And eighty-four in a week.

So sings a poor G. C. signalman. There is more but enough is as good as a feast.

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bar382a: Dates ----~1893|

Overworked signalman falls asleep and causes a crash

I Stand and Watch the Trains Go Past

bar465: Dates ----~----|

A reflection on the hardships and dangers faced by railway workers.

Danger Signal

bar074: Dates ----~1881|

Signalman dies at his post but leaves signal set at danger so averting disaster.

In The Signal Box

bar178: Dates ----~1881|

A Signalman risks his son's life to save the passengers on a train.

Signalman

bar681: Dates ----~1896|

Divine intervention prevents a crash when a signalman falls asleep.

Weary Signalman

bar654: Dates ----~1900|

A signalman complains of long hours. (Fragment)

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