Sideways to Victory.

[zeitghost]

Just do try not to do it whilst driving a train, it really doesn't end well.



Santiago de Compostela train crash: Video footage emerges showing the moment train derails and kills 78 - Europe - World - The Independent

[barrydidit]

poor bastards.

Spanish national newspaper El Pais has reported that the train operator admitted he had been driving the train at 180 km/h immediately after the incident.

Are they sure about that?

[SimonMac]

poor bastards.



Are they sure about that?

I assume they mean he admitted it after the accident, not that he was still driving it after the accident!

[VectraMan]

That's quite fast.

So... nutter? Drunk? Asleep? Distracted by Albanian mistress?

[Mich the Tester]

That's quite fast.

So... nutter? Drunk? Asleep? Distracted by Albanian mistress?

Apparently signalling hadn't been adapted to high speeds. In a high speed train, if you try to follow the speed signs it's probably too late to slow down.

[Mich the Tester]

Except that's not the high speed version, it's the luxury slower version.

Which begs even more questions.

Odd.

Well if that's a slow version it also begs the question what we should call the Dutch 'intercities' and ' fast trains' that go 130 kmh while this Spanish train was going 190. Slug trains? Snail rail?

[Mich the Tester]

You ought to see the POS I catch in the morning.

A slug would overtake it.

Well the Spanish can always say 'at least we can get a train to go fast enough to crash at 190kmh'.

[tranceporter]

You ought to see the POS I catch in the morning.

A slug would overtake it.

I would have thought you take HST? non?

[Mich the Tester]

You ought to see the POS I catch in the morning.

A slug would overtake it.

Is it one of those chunks of diesel powered poo that British Rail used to run and were basically underpowered buses on rails?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacer_(train)

I remember using those to go from Redditch to Birmingham and back. These are not fond memories. Althought I think the trains were even older and slower than the ones in the linky. Truly awful.

[barrydidit]

Is it one of those chunks of diesel powered poo that British Rail used to run and were basically underpowered buses on rails?

Pacer (train) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I remember using those to go from Redditch to Birmingham and back. These are not fond memories. Althought I think the trains were even older and slower than the ones in the linky. Truly awful.

The ones in the linky are the 'refurbished' ones which ply the route from Huddersfield to Sheffield (also leeds-sheffield via barnsley maybe?). They are utter tulip. However, they did replace something even worse which is the same thing, but with the bus seats on. 3 passengers one side of the isle, 2 the other.

Those bus ones still exist - they drag them out for the ale trail service.