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The Last Bell at Skelgill Road

The bell is ringing from a signal box bulldozed seventeen years ago. In her father’s rhythm.

On the last night before a Cumbrian signal box is switched off for good, signaller Kirsty Tyson hears the bell from Moss End, a box that was bulldozed seventeen years ago. Her father worked there for thirty years. He hasn't spoken since his stroke, and the bell is ringing in his rhythm.

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