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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 16, 2014 14:20:05 GMT
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Post by Nortube on Mar 21, 2014 15:00:23 GMT
I thought that it was the daily mail at its best! They can never reach the standards of its sister the evening standard though :-)
Visions of the train running through the station with all the passengers screaming, waving their arms about and banging on the doors.
Mind you, I'd have been a P'd off passenger if I'd wanted to get off at Bank and ended up having to get off and travel back.
Station announcement?
"Please stand clear of the platform edge, this train is a special and will not be stopping at this station ... or the next, or the next ...."
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Post by mrhappy on Mar 24, 2014 2:12:38 GMT
Its not a new thing though. Trains have always run away, even when manned. The best one I recall was the Queens Park runaway. Train broke its anchor chain and rolled off into the tunnel. Train staff had put an old broken one on because they had not seen a new one. Now the night duty manager had gone home. As had the signalman. The controller was found fast asleep in a sleeping bag. The night driver was round my home showing me how his commodore 64 worked. When his guard called and told him to get back fast. So I drove him back to Queens Park.
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Post by hellocontrol on Mar 24, 2014 7:53:04 GMT
Its not a new thing though. Trains have always run away, even when manned. The best one I recall was the Queens Park runaway. Train broke its anchor chain and rolled off into the tunnel. Train staff had put an old broken one on because they had not seen a new one. Now the night duty manager had gone home. As had the signalman. The controller was found fast asleep in a sleeping bag. The night driver was round my home showing me how his commodore 64 worked. When his guard called and told him to get back fast. So I drove him back to Queens Park. The driver of the Queens park incident was KC IIRC and those that did not go home were busy playing cards in the mess room when they heard the train go and thought strange but carried on playing cards it brought a new meaning to what a Rolling Stock Notice was. |
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Post by Nortube on Mar 24, 2014 10:33:32 GMT
Was that the incident where P-Way staff were sacked becaiuse they weren't killed?
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Post by hellocontrol on Mar 24, 2014 14:13:15 GMT
Was that the incident where P-Way staff were sacked becaiuse they weren't killed? That's the one and the train almost reached Oxford Circus. |
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Post by drico on Mar 24, 2014 22:26:25 GMT
Why were the P/Way staff sacked ?
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Post by Nortube on Mar 24, 2014 23:13:19 GMT
From what I remember, they'd signed in then bunked off home on a fiddle.
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Post by railtechnician on Mar 26, 2014 5:36:40 GMT
Its not a new thing though. Trains have always run away, even when manned. The best one I recall was the Queens Park runaway. Train broke its anchor chain and rolled off into the tunnel. Train staff had put an old broken one on because they had not seen a new one. Now the night duty manager had gone home. As had the signalman. The controller was found fast asleep in a sleeping bag. The night driver was round my home showing me how his commodore 64 worked. When his guard called and told him to get back fast. So I drove him back to Queens Park. Not an incident to chuckle about even now! That train nearly ran down a group of signalling staff working in the tunnels at Baker Street, it was rather fortunate that no-one was killed or injured. My former right hand man had been one of those nearly caught and runover on that night. In my years on the system I had some near misses in tunnels on the Northern and Bakerloo lines and I was never complacent about track safety especially when I was looking after more bodies than myself. Of course we all did some hairy things back in the day, it was for example quite normal to ride a trolley all the way from Golders Green to Chalk Farm and all we had for brakes was several pairs of boots on the runners and neggy! During the late 1970s Picc east end resignalling I was working in the WB tunnel between Bounds Green and Wood Green in engineering hours and heard 'a train' coming. I was aware of a ballast train working WB into Bounds Green on battery and that it was to remain there until juice on before departing. Thus when I looked up and saw a pair of headlights coming down the pipe I legged it into the siding tunnel just in time to turn around and see that it was not a train but a P-Way trolley piled high with 10' rails, two Tilley lamps at the front and eight P-Way staff riding on top. They were lucky because my guv'nor was in the signal cabin and saw the 'train' approaching on the diagram and was going to reverse the points, had he done so I expect a few bodies would have been mangled as the trolley derailed. He had some stern words for the Ganger when he collared him in the platform, only the slow approach speed had save him and his gang from something potentially worse. Runaway trolleys sound like trains especially when loaded and of course they look like trains with a pair of bright white reflected lights at the front. I recall a comms gang losing a trolley on the Northern in the 1980s, it ran almost all the way to Morden with a drum of cable mounted on jacks giving it kinetic energy. The chap in charge of the trolley (prior to the days of the Trolleymaster and appropriate license) had forgotten to chock the trolley which had no brakes, worse the Inspector in charge of running the cable was present to supervise the work! |
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Post by hellocontrol on Mar 26, 2014 16:32:32 GMT
I remember they had just installed new lifts at Elephant an old trick was to move the lift a little bit at a time if you were on your own trouble was the SS let the lift move more than he should and it tried to go through the roof.
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