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  Danger Ahead! Hawes Junction (1910)
At Hawes Junction, the signalman forgot that these two locomotives were standing on the main line.
The night of 23 December 1910 at Hawes Junction was a foul one.
Pilot locomotives working in either direction were detached at Aisgill summit, then proceeded to Hawes Junction to be turned on the turntable there before returning to their starting points, Carlisle, Leeds or Hellifield.
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