The signalman at Holme had been concerned that, because the coal train was so late, if it went on to Abbots Ripton before shunting into a siding the Flying Scotsman would be delayed. 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. As the Inquiry report noted ""The evidence as to what then happened at the Holme station was unsatisfactorily given, and is not clear""