PastyKing

just been a newsflash hope no one is too badly injured

Micky The Finn

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dave cos4x4

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happened before up that way not so long ago.

cossie4i+

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I hope nobody is badly injured.

Steve.

Rhys

Yeah i had it flash up on comp aswell

andyt

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that would be a start, you heard out Tim

GARETH T

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6391633.stm

DOCK1

Put BBC news 24 on.

Moonstone Steve.

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it says so on bbc web site, virgin train derailed and slid down embankment, hope no one is hurt

Steve.

andyt

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Fuck sake

DOCK1

Anyone got it on? Theres a picture been sent in from inside a carraige on its side

cossie4i+

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That don't sound good at all

Steve.

crazycage

3 of my mates are on a train on the way down now ita been sent back to carlile and getting put on a bus to liverpool .should of been here @10.30 now it will be about 4am by the looks of it

Micky The Finn

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Graceland

Thankfully no-one has been killed according to reports

The last serious incident was in Tebay aswell - not too long ago - a freight truck rolled for about 6 miles and struck a gang of plate layers killing 4 of them

Micky The Finn

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Micky The Finn

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JonnyBravo

Whats a guardian angle

adam_frst

not good

OldDan

See like everything is not massively serious!

How does a train actually derail? Gracey?

Micky The Finn

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OldDan

Just heard they've only got to the first carriage!

luke89

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my gurl was ment to be on that train but couldnt be arsed to wait the extra 2mins for the direct train home so glade she didnt get on it , hope no one got injered

Micky The Finn

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Micky The Finn

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OldDan

One fatality at Royal Lancaster.

phil_focus

just clicked on that link (already seen it on yahoo news) an it says one dead in the headline

scary thing is, i sometimes get on that train to come home. go all the way from euston to crewe. so if i had wanted i could have been on that train an got off before it crashed thats a scary thought.


hope everyone else will be ok, does seem VERY serious!


also just realised my mate is at uni in penrith an thats next to that line!!!

SS1

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i remember that on tv ..

can you imagine the workers thoughts who where not on the track at the time

really makes you think

i carnt even imagine what carnage there was at the site ...

and the firemen have to turn up and deal with it

there wages are piss poor

NUTS RuS

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Looks serious Tim

Have you been called in ?

Graceland

After an Isolation has taken place (From memory, its Glasgow being the controling ECO there - telephone (internal 073 2172) you can then safely approach the OHLE once the P-Way staff have earthed it at a DEP. Perfectly safe then - hence the emergency services did NOT go near the train untill an isolation had taken place

Tim - there are rules and regulations in place for these types of incidents - the rulebook which ANYONE who works on the railway MUST adhere to is basically a book of accidents. It would not surprise me if in the next update in June 2007 there is an ammendment to a rule that is a direct influence on last nights events.

Micky The Finn

since when do the p-way isolated the overheads?

and the isolation control is at cathcart,

do i need to go on?

perhaps you want the point number and machine style in question?ive worked on it for the last 15 years remember.

Micky The Finn

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andyt

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its a fuckin bad one, Tim are you going in

Micky The Finn

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andyt

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its them dodgy points

OldDan

What is it you actually do Tim?

Rhys

1 died


They was saying how well the train stod up to the impact. Also thinking its a dodgy point int he track, and this trck was worked on last week

Dont mean to offend anyone here, but the people who work on the tracks seem to be the most lasy people going. I have meet and seen a few more and they are always sciving and seems to be doing half a job when they was there

Micky The Finn

what a wanker.

Rhys

maybe bit harsh i relise it atm, but all the ones i seen town here are sciving all the time. Down my mates who selling a car and a van load of them turned up to look at car and they was joking how they where suppose to be working on the clock Shame really, the tracks seem to be in a mess though, wasnt RAil track caught on panorama some time ago about amount of bad repairs etc?

Mark_w

As graceland said, emergency services would not have gone near it until current isolation was in place,this is basic health and safety regulations that everyone adheres to...he did say that pway applied earthing protection though,and in the emergency procedure anyone could start this chain of events and is fairly straightforward.

mark