 To avoid this, he had decided to stop the train at Holme and put it into a siding there.He set his signal levers to put his signals to danger, but when the coal train arrived at Holme at 6.21 pm it did not stop.He telegraphed to Abbots Ripton that the train had run past the signals, and told the stationmaster at Holme that the train had disobeyed the signals.