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Retrieved 14
September 2019. "MNM
chief Kamal Haasan names secretaries,
zonal pointsmen to rev up
party work". The New
Indian Express. 14
August 2019. Archived...
- The
United Pointsmen and Signalmen's
Society was a
union representing railway workers in the
United Kingdom. The
union was
founded in 1880 in Bolton,...
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Servants (ASRS), the
General Railway Workers'
Union (GRWU) and the
United Pointsmen and Signalmen's
Society (UPSS). The
unions issued an
ultimatum to the...
- the
Amalgamated Society of
Railway Servants (founded 1872), the
United Pointsmen and Signalmen's
Society (founded 1880) and the
General Railway Workers'...
- a "confiscation" board. In
August 1911, the ASRS, ASLEF, the
United Pointsmen's and Signalmen's
Society (founded 1880) and the
General Railway Workers'...
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reached 20,000 by 1913. That year, it
merged with the ASRS and the
United Pointsmen and Signalmen's
Society to form the
National Union of Railwaymen. 1889:...
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against the rake, the
sprag broke and the 12
wagons began to move. Two
pointsmen made
valiant efforts to pin down the
brakes to no avail. The
wagons rapidly...
- and
Upper Points of the Zig Zag, this was to
replace the
operation of
pointsmen using hand levers.
Commissioner of Railways, E. M. Eddy,
decided that...
- From 25-27
November 1898, a
first strike at the
station took place. 60
pointsmen were not
working demanding reduction of a 16-hour duty shift. Originally...
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platforms (early
signal boxes)
whilst the
station area was
controlled by
pointsmen who
manually set the
points on the ground.
About a mile to the west the...
