A FORMER LMS signalman whose quick thinking prevented an almost-certain disaster at Carlisle station 40 years ago was recognised at a locomotive-naming ceremony at the station on May 1 – and among those who attended was the great-grandson of a train guard who was also hailed a hero in a train accident more than a century earlier.
The signalman was Bill ‘Willie’ Taylor, who on a shift at Carlisle Power Signal Box on May 1, 1984, realised that a Liverpool to Glasgow freight train carrying highly explosive chemicals had become
