At their suggestion, by the next train on the same day, Mr Bagster went over to Alton Grange to report the circumstance to Mr George Stephenson, who was the largest shareholder in the line. After various ideas had been considered, Mr Bagster remarked, “Is it not possible to have a whistle fitted on the engine which steam can blow?” to which George Stephenson replied, “A very good thought; go and have one made.”

Mr Bagster at once went to a musical instrument maker in King Street, Leicester, who constructed a “steam trumpet,” which was put on in ten days, and tried at West Bridge Station in the presence of the Board of Directors. Similar trumpets or whistles were ordered for the other engines, and one was also sent from Leicester to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

The owner of the cart put in a claim against the Company for a new horse and cart, and for fifty pounds of butter and eighty dozen eggs, which he was conveying to Leicester market, and as the person who should have closed the gates was clearly to blame and neglected that duty, the Company’s solicitors, Messrs S. and R. Miles, advised that the claim should be paid, and that course was adopted by the directors.