Nicola makes an inauspicious start to her career at Kingscote School when she drops her leaving present, a penknife, out of the train and pulls the communication cord so that she can jump out to retrieve it.
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Every guard's compartment had a brake valve, and the passenger communication apparatus ( usually called " the communication cord " in lay terminology ) also admitted air into the train pipe at the end of coaches so equipped.
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The first train in the United Kingdom with corridor connections between all carriages entered service on 7 March 1890 on the Milford Boat Train set introduced electric lights and the communication cord was moved inside the train; until now a passenger needing to stop the train in an emergency had to lean out of the window and pull a cord above the door.
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Despite growing fame and success, the 1980s is considered Friel's artistic " Gap " as he published so few original works for the stage : " Translations " in 1980, " The Communication Cord " in 1982, and " Fathers and Sons " ( 1987 ), an edition of Charles McGlinchey's memoirs entitled " The Last of the Name " for Blackstaff Press ( 1986 ), and Charles Macklin's play " The London Vertigo " in 1990.
