It is a small and narrow point that turns the rushing train to the right or to the left.

The rushing man is often turned off by a point as small and narrow.
"My word!" said Jacko, on a sudden, "here they are, all o' horseback!" And as he spoke, there was the sound of half a dozen horsemen galloping up to them through the bush.

"Why, there's Bos, his own self," said Jacko.
The two leading men were Joe and Jerry Brownbie, who, for this night only, had composed their quarrels, and close to them was Boscobel.
There were others behind, also mounted--Jack Brownbie and Georgie, and Nokes himself; but they, though their figures were seen, could not be distinguished in the gloom of the night.

Nor, indeed, did Harry at first discern of how many the party consisted.

It seemed that there was a whole troop of horsemen, whose purpose it was to interrupt him in his work, so that the flames should certainly go ahead.