Exempel på despatcher

• Instructions were wired from the despatcher's office to the operators all along the line, ordering them to report promptly any irregularity or suspicious circumstance.

• The train-master dropped the ear-piece of the telephone and crossed quickly to the despatcher's table.

• If a despatcher took sick there was no handy way of filling in; it was just double up and do the best you could.

• The despatcher snatching the train sheet began instantly clearing track for a bridge special.

• He was looking for a train despatcher's key some day after he had got through station operating, and after that--well, something better still.

• About the middle of the room, or in the recess of the bay window, is the despatcher's table.

• From the information contained thereon, the despatcher makes all his calculations for time orders, meeting points, work trains, etc.

• The interior of the despatcher's office is not, as a rule, very sumptuous.

• Go over to the despatcher's office any night and you will see him, bright and alert, sitting opposite the despatcher doing the copying.

• The white beam from the despatcher's tower had been on them while they talked.

• It is the obscure despatcher under the lamp who for a single lapse pays the penalty of eternal disgrace.

• I saw him put out his hand to the night despatcher.

• Others may blunder; others may forget; others may fall and stand again: not the despatcher; a single mistake damns him.

• But he weakened at the last minute; admitted that he wasn't big enough to handle the despatcher's trick.

• Weeks," he said, "the despatcher reports something the matter.