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"ref": "1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53",
"text": "Driver James Mitchell was the worse for drink. When he took duty at Carlisle on the previous evening, he was smelling of whisky; there were signs of drink on him at Beattock, and when they left Carstairs on the return journey, he was worse.",
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