Mike Oxsaw
8:25 Thu Jul 4
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I know it's of scant (or no) comfort to those involved, but the fact that such an incident (still) makes national headlines is an indication of how safe (we think) the railways really are.
You'd need a crash on the roads involving the death & dismemberment of a dozen kids and a convent of nuns to generate similar "newsworthiness".
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munkyfunk
8:15 Thu Jul 4
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Boys in orange definitely out in numbers today, and everyone to a man raised an arm when train horn was blown. You usually get the odd arm raised but today everyone did.
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claypole
7:58 Thu Jul 4
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Definitely a boots on ballast day today
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TheBoleynBoy
7:48 Thu Jul 4
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I’ll try and tell youse more, will be getting briefed about it at work soon enough.
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TheBoleynBoy
7:42 Thu Jul 4
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The line was recently made bi-directional, that’s the main thing.
Did the staff get briefed on the change?
Staff get more complacent as they get older.
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munkyfunk
7:24 Thu Jul 4
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Cough
Correct dets are placed in emergency scenarios to warn the driver of an incident ahead, or to assist with a failed unit.
Been all over Kent today driving and the amount of track workers out number in the hundreds. It wouldn’t be possible to put dets down for every worksite.
It would sound like the blitz
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Claret Badger
6:21 Thu Jul 4
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wouldn't have happened if they were still driving Class 31, 37 or 56 - you could have heard them locos from 10 miles away
modern traction is quiet for environmental reasons - bring back English noisey machinery
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General Choi
4:46 Thu Jul 4
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Terrible tragedy, obviously. Trying to imagine how I would feel if my mistake led to this. Would almost certainly top myself, the guilt would drive me insane.
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Far Cough
4:01 Thu Jul 4
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I don't think that would work, detonators are there to tell the driver to stop immediately, there's a problem ahead, faulty signal or something like that?
Westham67 would know better
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Eddie B
3:57 Thu Jul 4
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Audible wouldn't cut it though. It would have to be visible or physical.
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Cheezey Bell-End
3:55 Thu Jul 4
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Do they still put detonators on the track to give an audible warning? I would trust that over a bloke who may or may not be paying attention.
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RM10
3:43 Thu Jul 4
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Short cuts
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lowermarshhammer
1:54 Thu Jul 4
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Lookouts are humans.
Humans are fucking thick.
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Cheezey Bell-End
1:50 Thu Jul 4
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You would hope that they wouldn't be allowed to have phones with them, though there will always be someone who doesn't follow the rules. I'm sure spotting is a boring job and they get distracted.
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lowermarshhammer
1:45 Thu Jul 4
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Must admit I'd never even heard of the concept of a touch lookout until today.
What's the maximum distance that the touch lookout stands from the worker with hearing protection? In this case is the touch lookout unable to hear the horn due to the noise of the works?
If I was working with power tools and needed hearing protection I'd sure as shit make sure that a touch lookout was on point all the time.
The outer lookout on his fucking smartphone is my wild stab in the dark.
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Cheezey Bell-End
1:44 Thu Jul 4
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This has me thinking that they need some kind of buzzer they can feel when there's a train in the area. It would vibrate and flash like those things they give you in some restaurants to tell you to go and get your food. It could be triggered by the train passing through a signal or by an attentive look out.
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Any Old Iron
1:33 Thu Jul 4
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Westham67 8:27 Thu Jul 4
Can we have that in English you fucking illiterate.
On second thoughts, don't bother.
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Westham67
11:40 Thu Jul 4
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Normally not FC we work in live traffic its called the red zone up to 125mph
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Westham67
11:39 Thu Jul 4
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The touch lookout is looking at the outer lookout so 1 of them fucked up. My guess would be the touch lookout because 1 man didn't die, he saw the train and dived off the track too late to save the others anyway
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Far Cough
11:37 Thu Jul 4
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67, did the work area have a speed restriction?
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Westham67
11:36 Thu Jul 4
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Again something that should not be happening all brakes on all types of trains including track mounted machinery should be fail safe it the brakes fail they lock and the wagon cannot move
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