One for the railway heads

[2HB]

Sorry Brigit i thought i'd posted a description.It's in Springburn Park memorial garden.

[tobester]

Now for the slagging off...

Direct Rail Services 47501, at Maryport Station working the Workington-Maryport Shuttle service.



This service was introduced after the flooding at Workington brought down the railway bridge, it calls at Workington North, Workington, Flimby and Maryport only, it connects in with Northern services to/from Carlisle

[aland]

beast, had it with 40145 to stranraer a few years ago T&T, the spoon was hellfire on the way back climbing Girvan bank. 12 cylinders full of sulzertastic thash. the whistler wisnae too bad heading south too

[Autolycus]

trackside doors of train unlocked by mistake

"The main rail union has raised safety fears after a stand-in ScotRail conductor unlocked doors on the wrong side of a train during yesterday's one-day strike.

The Edinburgh-bound service is understood to have been cancelled because of the incident at Queen Street station in Glasgow.

The Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said the incident had "potential lethal consequences" and called for an independent inquiry.

It is believed to have involved a manager, who activated doors on both sides of the train as it stood at a platform before its scheduled 7:15am departure.

This meant passengers could have opened doors on the opposite side of the train and fallen on to tracks. It is not known how many people were on board at the time"

[banjo]

i once read a book about the one legged murderer and kidnapper michael sams and his hobby was collecting railway memorabilia.what caught my eye in his collection was a rather large station sign for dalmuir park.

[munroman]

Dirty great snowplough heading north at Drumochter on Sunday 28th Feb

[tobester]

trackside doors of train unlocked by mistake

"The main rail union has raised safety fears after a stand-in ScotRail conductor unlocked doors on the wrong side of a train during yesterday's one-day strike.

The Edinburgh-bound service is understood to have been cancelled because of the incident at Queen Street station in Glasgow.

The Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said the incident had "potential lethal consequences" and called for an independent inquiry.

It is believed to have involved a manager, who activated doors on both sides of the train as it stood at a platform before its scheduled 7:15am departure.

This meant passengers could have opened doors on the opposite side of the train and fallen on to tracks. It is not known how many people were on board at the time"

Would never had happened, if the line was DOO, but according to the union our trains are dangerous.

[Autolycus]

What's DOO? I'm guessing it has something to do with opening and closing doors but beyond that................

[Mark N]

Driver-Only Operated ?

[BrigitDoon]

DOH

[hazy]

trackside doors of train unlocked by mistake
"The main rail union has raised safety fears after a stand-in ScotRail conductor unlocked doors on the wrong side of a train during yesterday's one-day strike.
The Edinburgh-bound service is understood to have been cancelled because of the incident at Queen Street station in Glasgow.
The Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said the incident had "potential lethal consequences" and called for an independent inquiry.
It is believed to have involved a manager, who activated doors on both sides of the train as it stood at a platform before its scheduled 7:15am departure.
This meant passengers could have opened doors on the opposite side of the train and fallen on to tracks. It is not known how many people were on board at the time"

The train was not cancelled.As it was human error and was immediatly recognised as so, then the train was allowed to travel. If the fault was not identified then I have the unfortunate authority to cancel the train . I have know fully trained Guards accidntly open offside doors doing but dening it.

[aland]

and in the days before the nanny state took over there was no central door locking, right up to the 90's on intercity mark 2 and 3 coaches there was nothing to stop you from opening a door at over 100mph apart from common sense

even today on charter rakes that work at up to 100mph the secondary door lock is only a simple bolt that anyone can open. only thing is that most folk that use these coaches know it is not a good idea to open doors while the train is in motion

[BrigitDoon]

Dirty great snowplough heading north at Drumochter on Sunday 28th Feb

[Lone Groover]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8537539.stm

Excellent !

[tobester]

Today is the 21st anniversary of the Bellgrove Train Crash, happened when a springburn bound train went through a red signal (SPAD) and crashed head long into a train heading out of the duke street tunnel, 2 people died and 40 were injured.

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