With those shouted words signalman James Herring tried to stop the departing Up Mail on a moonlit summer's night in 1898. The signalling handlamp pictured below could be the very one he waved from his window at Grantham Yard Box in a vain attempt to prevent a collision.
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For the full story and more detailed photographs of the lamp see our page Grantham Yard signal box – people and incidents.