Arthur Bell is the night telegraph clerk at Drayton Junction, where a busy double line meets a quiet single branch and half the county's traffic passes through after dark. On a stormy night a freight train goes missing and the wire goes dead — and it falls to Arthur, with Ned and Sam, to find her before trouble does. 0:00 — Evening Arrival at Drayton Junction 10:37 — The Night's Work Begins 20:28 — Ned and Sam 24:16 — The Ordinary Trains 33:22 — Waiting on the Freight 40:11 — The Wire Goes Silent 45:29 — Sending Sam Up the Line 51:11 — Sam's Report 56:06 — The Ledger Mistake 1:02:56 — Confirmation 1:08:14 — Out Along the Line 1:18:06 — Dawn and the Clean Ledger Behind the story: Arthur's work rests on the "block" system that spread across Britain's railways in the 1850s and 60s — signal boxes passing each train on by telegraph, so that only one train could be in a section of line at a time. Further reading: Wikipedia – Absolute block signalling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_block_signalling No music. Narrated with a calm synthetic voice. Also on Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and iHeartRadio — links on the channel page. #SleepStory #RailwayStory #Telegraph