Red Signal
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 116 of 200.
The English countryside, August 1963, Thursday, 3:05 am. The night mail train from the north to London has stopped at a red signal in the middle of the fields, at Mill Crossing.
Men in overalls and wool masks climbed onto the locomotive, struck the driver and took the valuables carriage to Marsh Bridge, a kilometre ahead. In forty minutes, one hundred and twenty sacks of money went down the embankmentembankment A raised bank of earth or gravel that carries a railway or road above the level of the surrounding land. into a lorry.
Nobody touched the signal boxsignal box A small railway building where an operator works the levers and panel that control signals and points on a stretch of line.. The panel inside showed green all night. The gang knew which night, which carriage and which point on the line.
Three people knew enough about that train. One of them drew up the plan.
Trackside before dawn: a signal post with its red lens lit, and the locomotive.
Suspects
Agnes PollardSignal operator at the nearest signal boxsignal box A small railway building where an operator works the levers and panel that control signals and points on a stretch of line., 44
Walter FinchDriver of the mail train, 58
Clive HarrowPostal service security inspector, 49
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