Idiots and trains

[SueEllen]

linky

Footage of an empty pushchair being sucked across a platform by a train's slipsteam offers a stark warning.

[scooterscot]

Is it normal for freight to be travelling so fast trough commuter stations?

[AtW]

Won't happen after Brexit.

There won't be freight to move ...

[ladymuck]

Is it normal for freight to be travelling so fast trough commuter stations?

Passenger trains have been known to hurtle through stations. Experienced it many a time having lived near a local station where only every third train stopped at the station. Why is a freight train any different?

[AtW]

Why is a freight train any different?

Because it's real freightening...

[SueEllen]

Is it normal for freight to be travelling so fast trough commuter stations?

Depends on the number of lines the station has and how busy they think it is likely to be.

Busy stations tend to have slower fast trains and freight trains if they only have two platforms. Less busy ones have faster ones. Either way you stand back from the yellow line as directed.

[SueEllen]

I was going to post more idiots up before I got distracted

linky

This is the moment a cyclist escaped death by inches after barging through gates at a level-crossing into the path of an oncoming South West service to Waterloo.

Video footage shows the “aggressive” man lifting his mountain bike over the railings outside North Sheen station, before prising open the gates to squeeze himself through in front of a crowd of schoolchildren.

Shocked bystanders pleaded with the cyclist to wait, but he screamed back “I don’t f****** care mate” – a split-second before the train rushed past.

[BrilloPad]

linky

At least she was focusing on the child

[ladymuck]

I was going to post more idiots up before I got distracted

linky

I half wish there was another one coming the other way at the same time

[BrilloPad]

I half wish there was another one coming the other way at the same time

Apart from the poor train driver and ambulance crews....