Now, a very experienced loco operator was chosen for the job and told to do two things at once, (i) the train must stop exactly where the emperor's door would be at the red carpet spot, and (ii) the train must stop when there would be 30 seconds of the national anthem still left to be played.  Back then, this sort of order was absolute; no excuse.

He made it. He stopped the train exactly where and when he was told to, and fell unconscious on the loco floor. (I wonder the same thing is still happening in North Korea today.)

I will become a patissier, God willing.