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Case File · Cipher · No. 095
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The Lever Frame Dispatch
≈ 4 min
When relief signaller Dot Purvis climbed the wooden stairs of Creswick Junction's signal box at six in the morning, she found the token machine unplugged and a folded slip of paper wedged beneath the largest lever in the frame. The note was written in a neat hand, but the words made no immediate sense.
The scene
Railway signal box, Creswick Junction — the narrow upper room where a row of iron levers controls the points and signals along three converging lines.
Possible authors
- Gerald Vance — Station Porter
- Leonard Obi — District Signals Inspector
- Iris Hadlow — Booking Clerk
- Cecily Moss — Permanent Way Engineer
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