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    Idiots and trains

    linky

    Footage of an empty pushchair being sucked across a platform by a train's slipsteam offers a stark warning.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    Is it normal for freight to be travelling so fast trough commuter stations?
    Last edited by scooterscot; 10 October 2017, 17:52.
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #3
      Won't happen after Brexit.

      There won't be freight to move ...

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        #4
        Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
        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?

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          #5
          Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
          Why is a freight train any different?
          Because it's real freightening...

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            #6
            Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
            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.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              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.
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #8
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                At least she was focusing on the child

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                  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

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                    I half wish there was another one coming the other way at the same time
                    Apart from the poor train driver and ambulance crews....

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