pointsman in a sentence

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1. The'rest'aspect indicated to the pointsmen and shunters that they could " do what they wanted and store what they wanted " on the track so designated.
2. During its period of use, there was often a signal box at each end of the station or there were areas of hand-operated points that were set by pointsmen.
3. In 1880 the ASRS's growth was challenged by the foundation of two railway craft unions : the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the United Pointsmen and Signalmen's Society.
4. The inexperienced pointsman saw a ballast train following the train from Glasgow and wrongly assumed it to be the pilot engine and so let the train through; just then, the Edinburgh train was approaching from the east.
5. For the final episode, " Erotic Tales, " which opens on Friday, in Manhattan, reaches back to a 1995 effort by the Dutch filmmaker Jos Stelling ( " The Pointsman " ).
6. In the following season he made steady progress and developed into a Gold Cup contender, winning three of his first seven races and finishing second a chase at Lingfield Park when he attempted to concede eight pounds to Pointsman.
7. In the closing of Part Two, Katje is revealed to be safe in England, enjoying a day at the beach with Roger Mexico and Jessica, as well as Pointsman, who is in charge of Slothrop's furtive supervision.
8. With the opening of the Lockerbie branch into Dumfries in 1863 the pointsman's tower was removed from the junction beyond Albany Place and was re-erected on the summit of the slope at the deep cutting north of Dumfries station.
9. In 1910, he was elected as the union's general secretary, leading the union through the major strike of 1911, then organising a merger with the General Railway Workers'Union and the United Pointsmen's and Signalmen's Society.
10. The NUR was an industrial union founded in 1913 by the merger of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ( founded 1872 ), the United Pointsmen and Signalmen's Society ( founded 1880 ) and the General Railway Workers'Union ( founded 1889 ).