Graceland

this time a freight train carrying what is believed to be ballast.

down south again, signaller wrong routed it off the main line into a short siding, the loco ploughed straight thru buffer-stops into staionary rolling stock causing extensive damage

fortunately no-one was injured at all.


they say bad accidents happen in 3's - when's the next one?

cossiestu

The signaller wrong routed it?? Clever.

TheBishMan

In 3's eh? Okay now I'm worried!!

Fudgey

iTrader: (4)

technically it shouldnt be able to be wrong routed, he must have manual over rided the system

Clare

Eeeeeek we have a frieght line right next to our offices

Graceland

well i suppose you could class the 2 virgin trains running into the buffers at the end of platform 7 at liverpool limestreet on monday and wednesday gone another one?

Max

not another bloody train crash

like you said. Accidents happen in 3. I am gonna stay well clear of all railway lines for a while

Just remembered so does my work

Oranoco

The Hatfield train crash was only a hundred yards or so along from my old office. It made a very unpleasant noise from what people said that were in the building at the time.

There was actually a documentory on a few days ago about the railways and undercover reporters were put onto the tracks and the state of some of these lines was seriously worrying.

Fudgey

iTrader: (4)

and they say rail travel is still the safest.

i work for a rail company at the mo, and i fookin hate trains!!

i avoid at all times if possible, plus they are always fukkin late

Graceland

think yourselves lucky - you don't work on the railways as a guard - i do

and yup - i make trains late on purpose sometimes

Max

I watched that. Very DODGY indeed

John_bonus90

dont think im going a train again

AlexF

but you'll drive your car on the roads tonight?

hmmm

think about it people!

alex

Stavros

But they wont cross any railway tracks

Goons

BlueSmoke

I've been on 2 trains today and thankfully all went well

Graceland

i didnt go on any today - sat spare at work and got paid for sleeping

marked up for a job tomorrow - so if anyone is on the 07:20 from huddersfield to wigan, come say hello to the guard (me) and i MIGHT let u ride for free

Graceland

i'd start using the train up oldham m8 - if enough passangers arn't using the train soon, then the metrolink plan will be re-instated i hear - the railway is only still open to rochdale via oldham due to the lack of support for metrolink

MadMac

I have to take the train to work, no choice there

Stavros

Trains are safer than almost all other forms of domestic transport so youd be a dick to worry about em

Phil

iTrader: (1)

Public transport is for loosers anyway!!!! Stinking pissed-up jobsworths. Either that or commuters who pay double for a train so crowded you can't even stand let alone sit!!

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

the safest form of transport is infact aircraft there are far less deaths per KM travelled by about 5 times anything else And being an aircraft engineer the amount of safty systems built into the things and the care taken when working on them would be very useful if some of the fat cat wankers at rail-track cared about saftey rarther than gettin there bonuses
so if you want to stay safe fly to work

The Sludge

and me-was called Whistleblower wasnt it. Very dodgy and all that shit with credit cards, i mean WTF

Mark_w

i work for network rail in track maintenance and that programme was laughable to the experienced....we had a letter 2 weeks ago regarding the airing of this programme and watched to see what it was all about....what a load of crap and it goes to show what a couple of inexperienced idiots can do to make things look bad and scare the public...the part where they showed 14 spikes(clips) which hold the rail down slightly loose by sliding a credit card under them was laughable as this style of track fixing is at least 30 years old so it hasnt done to bad at keeping the rail in place and will do for years to come.....the undercover men also deliberately failed the test to expose the help they got from the tester,but at the end of the day they are new starters and only need to be labourers and not brain surgeons.....the credit card fraud also is not acceptable but has nothing to do with the safety side of the railway....what you will find is that there is a lot of bravado between the workers as with lots of manual jobs,but when it comes to safety,they take the job seriously

mark

The Sludge

out of pure curiosity, do you recognise any of em?

Mark_w

i dont as they are on a different district,but colleauges i work with have worked with some of them in the past

mark

The Sludge

mmmm, thats the thing with the press sometimes trying to make out things are worse than they are..............