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Title: Daily Wail again ! Post by: moonrakerz on September 22, 2009, 10:22:31 Quick, get a library photo of a train to go with this story - anything will do !
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215217/Driver-cheats-death-leaping-car-seconds-careers-path-speeding-train.html Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: grahame on September 22, 2009, 10:27:07 Quote A recovery train was being sent to the scene to remove the locomotive which suffered slight damage in the collision. I'm not around to see the 05:15 Salisbury to Waterloo ... what stock exactly to SWT use? I thought the class 33s, 50s and 73s were long off to pastures new ;) Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: JayMac on September 22, 2009, 11:27:17 It would be a 3 car 159 in all likelihood. Maybe a couple in multiple. So the recovery train will be removing a DMU and not a locomotive as the story states.
Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: Ollie on September 22, 2009, 13:13:13 At least they managed a picture of SWT stock.
Anyone read the comments? "What the government should do is restrict the speed of trains just like they have motor vehicles. I mean a train travelling at 100mph is difficult to pull up inside a mile, whereas you can stop a car inside 200 yards at that speed. Then again excess speed means more revenue! - Mullarkian, York, 22/9/2009 11:28" Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: devon_metro on September 22, 2009, 13:55:13 What use that would make to a 90mph DMU I do not know... ;D
Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: paul7575 on September 22, 2009, 14:43:33 http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4642153.Train_crash_near_Salisbury/ (http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4642153.Train_crash_near_Salisbury/)
Quote The black Fiat Bravo was travelling south when it appears to have gone out of control and hit a garden wall on the right-hand side of the road. The car was thrown back across the carriageway, mounted the kerb and went over the embankment onto the track, where it was hit If you look up the A338 at Broken Cross Bridge on an aerial view, and bear that description in mind, it's pretty clear that this is a total cockup by the driver. He'll probably try the 'sudden blow out' excuse, which appears a fairly common tactic when boy racers go over kerbs 'broadside on' as far as I can see... Paul Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: Phil on September 22, 2009, 15:03:39 http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4642153.Train_crash_near_Salisbury/ (http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4642153.Train_crash_near_Salisbury/) Quote The black Fiat Bravo was travelling south when it appears to have gone out of control and hit a garden wall on the right-hand side of the road. The car was thrown back across the carriageway, mounted the kerb and went over the embankment onto the track, where it was hit If you look up the A338 at Broken Cross Bridge on an aerial view, and bear that description in mind, it's pretty clear that this is a total cockup by the driver. He'll probably try the 'sudden blow out' excuse, which appears a fairly common tactic when boy racers go over kerbs 'broadside on' as far as I can see... Paul Link: http://bit.ly/v5jm3 (some interesting "crop circles" in the fields next to it as well, which look as if they were made by wheeled vehicles...) Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: Btline on September 22, 2009, 15:59:04 I'm afraid you do get idiots who right stupid comments on news websites.
A common one is: "Let's tarmac over the railways and have express coaches.. blah blah". I hope the driver recovers ok. Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: old original on September 22, 2009, 19:32:18 I hope the driver recovers ok. of the train, yes...of the car, umm Title: Re: Daily Wail again ! Post by: JayMac on September 23, 2009, 01:49:39 I hope the driver recovers ok. of the train, yes...of the car, umm Both will no doubt be investing in new underwear ;) ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |