From the Maitland Mercury report:
Les March, Maitland’s station master the day the 1955 flood washed away the city’s signal box, was farewelled inside a packed St Luke’s Anglican Church at Telarah yesterday.
Mr March, known as a “man of stories” to family and friends, was 90 years old when he died at Green Hills Nursing Home.
Full article by Rebecca Berry available at Maitland Mercury, 21 Apr, 2010