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Title: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: grahame on November 02, 2020, 10:37:24 I have seen pictures (from black and white days) of steam engines that have gone off the end of the track and thought the end of the station - sometimes at height - to the road outside. And now from Dutch News (https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/11/whale-tail-sculpture-stops-rotterdam-metro-train-from-crashing-into-water/)
Quote A metro train serving the town of Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam, has crashed through the barrier at the end of the track and only the sculpture of a whale has stopped it plummeting into the water below. The train is now suspended 10 metres above a footpath, thanks to the whale?s tail, and is likely to remain there for some time. ?We are trying to decide how we can bring the train down in a careful and controlled manner,? a local safety board spokesman told broadcaster NOS. What dual purpose sculptures would members suggest for termini in the UK - both to act as catchnets or crumple zones behind the buffers, and to reflect the local area? Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: eightf48544 on November 02, 2020, 11:36:19 A large Rubber Malteeser for Platform 1 at Slough.
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Oxonhutch on November 02, 2020, 11:42:58 Platforms 4, 5 and 6 at Reading - large biscuits to form a crumble zone
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Bmblbzzz on November 02, 2020, 11:49:30 Swindon, Platform 2: The crumpled remains of a BMW Mini.
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: stuving on November 02, 2020, 11:53:14 This is the original example:
(https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1D8A0443-560x373.jpg) Hard to compete with, frankly. It reminds me of an Infinite Improbability Drive! Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: johnneyw on November 02, 2020, 11:53:54 A giant cushion or mattress springs immediately to mind, perhaps sponsored by one of the companies that spends vast amounts advertising their wares on TV.
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: TonyN on November 02, 2020, 13:13:33 The sliding Stop blocks seem to have failed to do their job
Here is an ariel view from https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5194262/machinist-metro-spijkenisse-aangehouden-na-bizar-ongeluk (https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5194262/machinist-metro-spijkenisse-aangehouden-na-bizar-ongeluk) (https://i.ibb.co/xD0d6yg/metro.webp) Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: stuving on November 02, 2020, 13:15:33 What a massive fluke!
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: TonyN on November 02, 2020, 16:25:56 Edinburgh Waverley.
A large rubber set of bagpipes that make an awful noise when you hit them. Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Oxonhutch on November 02, 2020, 17:16:31 Hard to compete with, frankly. It reminds me of an Infinite Improbability Drive! Shows just what an extra hot cup of tea can deliver. But then the unanswered question is, where is the bowl of petunias? Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: chuffed on November 02, 2020, 17:23:20 Bristol Temple Meads...a couple of IKB top hats over the buffers on Platform 1. Mind you seeing how slow the Severn Beach 166s come in, I reckon I could stop it with my little finger !
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Oxonhutch on November 02, 2020, 20:08:12 Good job the driver wasn't routed via the middle road (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/de+akkers+rotterdam+metro/@51.832464,4.31352,218m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Surrey 455 on November 02, 2020, 21:23:45 A large Rubber Malteeser for Platform 1 at Slough. If that doesn't work it could always be rescued by Thunderbird 2 perhaps. (The TV show was made not far from the Mars factory.) Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Bmblbzzz on November 02, 2020, 21:26:52 I don't which stations might be associated with cricket grounds, but a giant pair of wicket keeper's gloves.
Or goalkeeper's gloves, if Ashton Gate ever reopens (though it wouldn't have a terminal platform). Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Surrey 455 on November 02, 2020, 21:32:38 I don't which stations might be associated with cricket grounds, but a giant pair of wicket keeper's gloves. Or goalkeeper's gloves, if Ashton Gate ever reopens (though it wouldn't have a terminal platform). Oval on the Northern line or Arsenal on the Piccadilly line though neither are terminating stations ;D And anyway Arsenal have since moved on. Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: froome on November 03, 2020, 07:09:19 As they are being dug up anyway, the Weymouth tramlines would do a good job at Weymouth.
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: grahame on November 03, 2020, 07:51:09 As they are being dug up anyway, the Weymouth tramlines would do a good job at Weymouth. Indeed ... my thought for Weymouth was a long sand drag ... Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: rogerpatenall on November 03, 2020, 09:28:02 I don't which stations might be associated with cricket grounds, but a giant pair of wicket keeper's gloves. Or goalkeeper's gloves, if Ashton Gate ever reopens (though it wouldn't have a terminal platform). Oval on the Northern line or Arsenal on the Piccadilly line though neither are terminating stations ;D And anyway Arsenal have since moved on. Although Drayton Park is maybe a little closer, Arsenal is still the closest main 'tube' station to the Emirates (along with Holloway Road - closed on match days). Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: Bmblbzzz on November 03, 2020, 11:01:02 And Old Trafford halt. Not a terminus and nothing even stops there since, I think, 2018.
Title: Re: Stopping trains that overshoot ... Post by: TonyK on November 03, 2020, 17:13:07 Exmouth and Penzance could each have a giant scone, cream first in Exmouth obviously.
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