weepingwillowb
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Would it have been unusual, or considered acceptable, to give a boy that responsibility, even if it was only temporary while an adult was away? It was on a Sunday morning, 17th October 1869, so perhaps there were no passenger trains due to arrive (Daisyfield was on the Blackburn-Clitheroe line), and what would the repercussions, if any, have been for whoever was normally in charge at the station and for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company? I've not come across a report of any follow-up to the accident.