The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a
ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic
event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a
signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the
railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is
danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he
receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a way he can only hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and
then by a terrible accident.
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