The pointsman aloft in the signal-box made the motions of drawing, with some difficulty, hogsheads of beer.
On went the train, then, past the junction, where the single pointsman looked amazed at the speed with which it thundered by.
The pointsman had apparently been startled by the crash and run off to inform the guardsmen at the nearest block-house.
In a few seconds it reached and passed the place where the siding was connected with the main line, and where a pointsman stood ready to shift the points.
Lease was the pointsman at South Crabb Junction, and helped also in the general business there.
Alfred Hoar--made pointsmanat the station in poor Harry Lease's place--was his brother.
A pointsman should stand while the train passes, and then step off to right the points at once.
Looking at it from their side, the pointsman was detestable; only fit, as the Squire said, to be hanged.
It is well known that when a train reaches a terminus it is the duty of a pointsman to direct it into some portion of the station then free to receive it.
On one occasion the pointsman at Brighton so blundered that the arriving train struck against a line of carriages, fortunately empty ones, then occupying the rails on to which it ran.
A pointsman will be expected to notice all signals and to obey them.
But the baggage clerk, who was also pointsman and a good many other things as well, had already gone off to some other duty, and was not available.
It is not very long ago since I saw in a newspaper an account of a pointsman being found dead in his box!
About six months afterward I happened to be at a railway station, and saw a pointsman who had been in our hospital with an injured foot, but who, as his friends wished to have him at home, had left before his foot was cured.
A few days after this interview with the pointsman I was talking to Sister Dora, and said: 'By the bye, Sister, I have found out where you went with the cab that day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pointsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
