Which station did they choose today?

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[super tm]

If you are squemish - look away now













Apparantly some ' body parts' were noticed by a driver this morning.  The fact that the railway was re-opened then closed again would suggest that the police wanted to make further enquiries. 

[Electric train]

Article in the online  Maidenhead Advertiser

The body found on the railway line between Taplow and Burnham this morning was that of a 32-year-old man from Slough, British Transport Police have announced.

Officers were called to the scene near Lent Rise Road at 7.08am after an alert by a train driver.

The incident is being treated as unexplained and an investigation is under way to determine how the man came to be on the tracks.

Huge disruptions on the railways followed the discovery and the line was handed back to Network Rail at 10am.

Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/article-13429-update-body-on-railway-line-was-slough-man-32/

[Mookiemoo]

If you are squemish - look away now













Apparantly some ' body parts' were noticed by a driver this morning.  The fact that the railway was re-opened then closed again would suggest that the police wanted to make further enquiries. 

No pics - and no I'm not squeamish but then I'm not sentimental about the human form

[JayMac]

If you are squemish - look away now













Apparantly some ' body parts' were noticed by a driver this morning.  The fact that the railway was re-opened then closed again would suggest that the police wanted to make further enquiries. 

I tried looking, then looking away, then reloading the page. Still nothing!

[Rogang]

Today was not one of our finest in being able to recover from the incident. A series of bad coincidences led to a large number of train crew being out of hours on arrival at Reading/Paddington, and despite sterling efforts by the crew rostering teams, the problems just grew like a mushroom. I started at 12:00 and we had stabiised an emergency Turbo timetable and a 90% HST^▸ (High Speed Train) service. We wanted a full PM Peak, but just could get enough stock and crew in the right place. As always with these events, displaced stock/crew is the biggest headache. Although diagrams have recovery/turn round times, they are finite. For example, sourcing the 12:06 Pad-Pnz was hard - it left 60+ late and made the 17:37 Pnz-Pad tonight run 30+ late, with all the associated 'missed connections' off the last train to London!

[Chris from Nailsea]

Thanks very much for that useful insight into the practical realities of situations such as occurred today, rogang.

Sadly, the incident itself, at whichever station it occurs, is often just the start of the unfortunate problems which follow.

As ever, please do pass on our sympathy and support to all those staff who were involved, on the front line.

Chris 

[IndustryInsider]

Today was not one of our finest in being able to recover from the incident. A series of bad coincidences led to a large number of train crew being out of hours on arrival at Reading/Paddington, and despite sterling efforts by the crew rostering teams, the problems just grew like a mushroom.

I'm sure everybody at Swindon was doing their absolute best, but recovery from major disruptions are not helped by the fact that many situations that should be (and used to be) resolved by local staff on the ground at the major stations, now has to go through those like yourself at Swindon. The replacement for TCS's (Train Crew Supervisors - which used to exist at all the major stations; Oxford, Reading and Paddington for example) are now called AOM's (Area Operations Managers) and sadly they are little more than glorified message boys!