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from Ferriby [ ]Syndicate's Depot ()signal box

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River Humber


There it turned in the direction of Hull and ran parallel to the
line for a short distance, doubling back, as they learned afterwards,
until it reached the main road half-way to Hassle. The railway
tracks were on a low bank, and the men could just see across them to
the syndicate's headquarters.

The view was not very good, but so far as they could make out, the
depot was a replica of that in the Landes clearing. A timber wharf
jutted out into the stream, apparently of the same size and
construction as that on the River Lesque. Behind it was the same
kind of galvanized iron shed, but this one, besides having windows
in the gables, seemed the smaller of the two. Its back was only
about a hundred feet from the railway, and the space between was
taken up by a yard surrounded by a high galvanized iron fence, above
which appeared the tops of many stacks of pit-props. Into the yard
ran a siding from the railway. From a door in the fence a path led
across the line to a wicket in the hedge of the lane, beside which