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Updated: September 13, 2025
Betty looked eagerly from the window as the brakesman shouted, "Shadyside! Shadyside!" "Isn't it a pretty station!" said Louise Littell. Betty agreed with her. The lawn was still green about the gray stone building and the tiles on the low-hanging roof were moss green, too. The long platform was roofed over and seemed swarming with girls and boys.
Engine and tender chugged out from the siding. And Murphy leaned through the window and broke all traffic rules. "Jump on, ye loon!" he yelled to the brakesman standing by the open switch. "Think I'm going to waste steam stopping for you?" The brakesman swung aboard. "All the specials are cancelled to-noight for the foight. We got three miles o' clear track. Go on, Mollie!" But he was wrong.
One of the most serious of these accidents occurred in 1806, not long after he had been appointed brakesman, by which 10 persons were killed. Stephenson was working at the mouth of the pit at the time, and the circumstances connected with the accident made a deep impression on his mind. Another explosion took place in the same pit in 1809, by which 12 persons lost their lives.
Most of the workmen enter the pit during the night shift, and leave it in the latter part of the day, whilst coal-drawing is proceeding. The requirements of the work at night are such, that the brakesman has a good deal of spare time on his hands, which he is at liberty to employ in his own way.
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