Bridge bashing

[Wickham Green too]

7 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

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The abutments have been heavily reinforced and capped with a stout girder either side of the line to protect the railway.  Given the prominent active signage, I don't know why it used to happen so often, nor why the incidence has dropped as the new signs seem a lot less conspicuous..

Maybe the SatNav companies have had too many complaints and have installed a "DON'T CHANCE IT !" notice so they can get some peace an' quiet ?

[Mike Bellamy]

The A52 Barrowby Road is closed under the East Coast main line at Grantham until November - and then Springfield Road will be closed for a similar length of time in the new year. Vehicles are having to find alternative routes and already there have been two bridge strikes. See here

 

https://www.granthammatters.co.uk/guess-what/

 

https://www.granthammatters.co.uk/another-bridge-hit-in-grantham/

 

Looks like it will be an interesting winter at Grantham . . . . . . . .

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[rab]

11 hours ago, stewartingram said:

 

Would that ship happen to be a destroyer?

 

ok ok I've got my coat.....

 

Stewart

No it's a frigit, or that's what the captain was heard to say anyway.

[peanuts]

19 hours ago, Talltim said:

 

stobart rail ? in hgv drivers joke 

 

[Talltim]

11 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Any idea where that scalping happened Tim?

Jonathan

In the Canadian National in Memphis apparently. Not sure which Memphis, there is a CN Harrison Yard in Memphis TN

Edited September 8, 2020 by Talltim

[Talltim]

Possibly here Dropped pin
Near South Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
https://goo.gl/maps/7rEz5xSM7cTrHh8TA

edit: although it looks like some sort of refinery to east so not sure why they would be pulling autoracks under the bridge

Edited September 8, 2020 by Talltim

[figworthy]

8 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:

 

After she was repaired, she hit the wall on the way out from the basin into the river,  so was brought back into the basin for another docking.

 

 

 

HMS Troutbridge in disguise ?

 

Adrian

[corneliuslundie]

Now this was a proper bridge bash by a boat:

Even though they had the insurance money they never repaired it.

Jonathan

[Wickham Green too]

For a second I didn't recognise it with all that scaffolding. 

 

Railways were out of fashion at the time - and this one never particularly busy anyway - so the authorities were more interested in this :-

 

Edited September 8, 2020 by Wickham Green too

[RJS1977]

2 hours ago, figworthy said:

 

HMS Troutbridge in disguise ?

 

Adrian

 

Funnily enough, I got the photo from the 'Navy Lark Fan Group' Facebook page!

 

Edit - and whilst AFAIK Troutbridge never made it quite as far as London Bridge, it did manage to come a cropper on Tower Bridge when Mr Phillips decided he didn't need to ask for it to be raised as they'd had plenty of room when they sailed through earlier in the day - at low tide!

 

Bus conductor: "What's my inspector going to say when I tell him my bus has been hit by a frigate?"

Phillips: "Probably the same as my Admiral will say when I tell him my frigate's been hit by a bus!"

Edited September 8, 2020 by RJS1977

[Michael Hodgson]

12 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Now this was a proper bridge bash by a boat:

Even though they had the insurance money they never repaired it.

Jonathan

 

It wasn't so much a bridge bash as a collision between two vessels which then got out of control as a result and in the confusion and the fog the bridge was also clobbered.  I've got most of the railway accident reports since WW2, including this one.  It wasn't the usual sort done by HMRI and nowhere near as interesting.  It was a Court of Inquiry by judges under the Merchant Shipping Act in which their Lordships merely sought answers to a series of questions such was the master of this vessel or that one negligent.

 

I well remember the piers still standing many years after the bridge spans had been removed, used to see it as I drove down the A48 regularly to visit my parents near Chepstow (avoiding the tolls on that motorway bridge).  Given what had happened and that the decision not to repair the bridge you would think the piers would have been removed as a hazard to shipping.  There obviously wasn't the money for that either, at least until many years later.

[figworthy]

9 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Given what had happened and that the decision not to repair the bridge you would think the piers would have been removed as a hazard to shipping.  There obviously wasn't the money for that either, at least until many years later.

 

By then there was very little shipping on that part of the river, most things heading upstream would have used the ship canal.

 

Adrian

[Michael Hodgson]

The vessels involved were trying to use the locks to enter the canal.

[lmsforever]

On 08/09/2020 at 21:32, figworthy said:

 

HMS Troutbridge in disguise ?

 

Adrian

Left hand down  everybody down!!!!!!!!!

[petethemole]

Nasty one in Winchester this morning, but few details yet,  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-54099591  and  https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18710766.winchester-bus-crash-school-bus-hits-railway-bridge/

Best wishes to the injured.

Edited September 10, 2020 by petethemole

[TheQ]

I think it's this bridge..

 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.0857856,-1.3138485,3a,20.9y,277.75h,90.81t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFjtRZ28xdn-jcce8k9ny1g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DFjtRZ28xdn-jcce8k9ny1g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D267.56592%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Edited September 10, 2020 by TheQ

[Oldddudders]

Hideous. Youngsters hurt - there will have been several at the front as always. And the driver will live with it forever. 

[PhilJ W]

32 minutes ago, petethemole said:

Nasty one in Winchester this morning, but few details yet,  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-54099591  and  https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18710766.winchester-bus-crash-school-bus-hits-railway-bridge/

Best wishes to the injured.

Report here.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-winchester-crash-children-seriously-22659275#source=push

11 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I think it's this bridge..

 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.0857856,-1.3138485,3a,20.9y,277.75h,90.81t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFjtRZ28xdn-jcce8k9ny1g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DFjtRZ28xdn-jcce8k9ny1g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D267.56592%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

It is indeed the same bridge, which beggars the question how on earth did the driver not realise that a double deck bus wouldn't fit?

[TheQ]

2 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Report here.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-winchester-crash-children-seriously-22659275#source=push

It is indeed the same bridge, which beggars the question how on earth did the driver not realise that a double deck bus wouldn't fit?

and who issued that bus for that route. 

 

Once you're driving it's automatic.. You don't think of what's above you, you are concentrating on getting it down the narrow road.

[duncan]

That bridge is not only low, it is narrow.  The bus seems to have gone right through - what speed was it doing to approach a dark narrow passageway without being able to stop if there was a vehicle coming towards it ?

 

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[spamcan61]

30 minutes ago, duncan said:

That bridge is not only low, it is narrow.  The bus seems to have gone right through - what speed was it doing to approach a dark narrow passageway without being able to stop if there was a vehicle coming towards it ?

 

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Looking at the third photo down on the BBC article (showing the bus from the front) it looks like the bus is maybe half way through the bridge or a bit more.

Edited September 10, 2020 by spamcan61

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

and who issued that bus for that route. 

 

Once you're driving it's automatic.. You don't think of what's above you, you are concentrating on getting it down the narrow road.

Its been pointed out on another thread. With social distancing it may have been thought prudent to put a larger vehicle on the service. In many cases a double deck bus in place of a single decker. The bus must have been going at some speed judging by the distance it travelled beneath the bridge before stopping.

[Joseph_Pestell]

That bridge looks like a tight fit even for a single deck bus/coach.

[melmerby]

It was off route according to some reports.

 

Bridge is 12' between markers and a double deck bus is about 14'

 

The June 2019 Google view in the opposite direction shows a missing height plate:

https://goo.gl/maps/14CmortoU7bmFfuGA

Edited September 10, 2020 by melmerby

[Nick C]

I've got several colleagues who live in Winchester, some of which have school age children. I'm hoping none of them were amongst the injured.