Bridge bashing

[SHMD]

Can the carriage owners claim for a new carriage on the hauliers insurance?

 

 

Kev.

 

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Edited September 24, 2021 by SHMD

[eastglosmog]

I see from Chris Minihan's low bridge map https://www.truckingjobs.co.uk/2018/10/low-bridge-map-uk.html that that bridge has a 15ft (4.57m) clearance.  In mitigation to the hauliers and their police escort, there is no low height sign on the bridge (on the A617 SE of Chesterfield), or at least there wasn't when I last went under it 6 months ago.

Edited September 24, 2021 by eastglosmog
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[Bucoops]

Move along, nothing to see

 

[eastglosmog]

Well, if we are insisting on reality, the drop was actually only 56m at most - 36m or so when you subtract the length of the coach. I know - I was involved in stabilizing the quarry face.

[rab]

2 hours ago, Bucoops said:

Move along, nothing to see

 

Cue a lot of egg being wiped from faces, including mine.

 

When will I learn not to trust the media.

[younGGuns7]

8 minutes ago, rab said:

Cue a lot of egg being wiped from faces, including mine.

 

When will I learn not to trust the media.

Couldn’t agree more and well done Reid Freight Services for their statement, I did think something was odd as when I was in the gym I saw the procession coming through Chesterfield and when I left not long afterwards there was no issue plus all the trains were running as normal

[Bucoops]

1 hour ago, rab said:

Cue a lot of egg being wiped from faces, including mine.

 

When will I learn not to trust the media.

 

Me too

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, rab said:

Cue a lot of egg being wiped from faces, including mine.

 

When will I learn not to trust the media.

Just read todays newspapers comics about the 'fuel crisis'. There is one now that they created.

[corneliuslundie]

I did think that the police woman who posted the original pic must either have known that there was no problem or was about to look for a new job.

Anyway, it kept us all entertained for a while.

Jonathan

[PhilJ W]

Boats bashing into bridges.

 

[corneliuslundie]

I plead guilty many years ago on a French canal. There was a left hand bend into a bridge. What I didn't know was that there was a feeder coming into the canal just on the corner which swept the boat sideways as we approached the bridge. Fortunately only surface damage dealt with with tools borrowed from an adjacent moored boat. And looking afterwards there was paint of many colours on the bridge arch.

Seriously, the kind of bashes shown in the video are potentially much more catastrophic than most railway bridge bashes. It is rare for a railway bridge to be demolished by a road vehicle.

One nearer home of course, the Severn railway bridge demolition job.

Jonathan

[RJS1977]

"It's all right Chief, we don't need to ask them to raise Tower Bridge. We fitted under it when we arrived this morning." (Crash)

"Mr Phillips, sir. That was at low tide...."

 

- The Navy Lark

[Bucoops]

2 hours ago, RJS1977 said:

"It's all right Chief, we don't need to ask them to raise Tower Bridge. We fitted under it when we arrived this morning." (Crash)

"Mr Phillips, sir. That was at low tide...."

 

- The Navy Lark

 

Reminds me of a new housing estate near me that is accessed by a number of portals through the buildings to a central area. It was very quickly discovered once people started moving in that fully laden moving vans could get in, but when empty and the suspension less compressed.... 

[RJS1977]

5 minutes ago, Bucoops said:

 

Reminds me of a new housing estate near me that is accessed by a number of portals through the buildings to a central area. It was very quickly discovered once people started moving in that fully laden moving vans could get in, but when empty and the suspension less compressed.... 

 

I've mentioned before that my old boss made that very mistake once!

[Bucoops]

To bring it back round to railway related, the bridge under the station regularly scalps busses. Well, not so often now they've made the road only go though the middle, but still gets the odd one - https://www.heart.co.uk/essex/news/bus-crashes-chelmsford-bridge/chelmsford-bus-crash-10/

[boxbrownie]

12 hours ago, Bucoops said:

To bring it back round to railway related, the bridge under the station regularly scalps busses. Well, not so often now they've made the road only go though the middle, but still gets the odd one - https://www.heart.co.uk/essex/news/bus-crashes-chelmsford-bridge/chelmsford-bus-crash-10/

Eastern National never had problems with the Lodeckers……..duh! 

[PhilJ W]

7 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

Eastern National never had problems with the Lodeckers……..duh! 

The Lodeckers often lost the vents on the edges of the roof under that bridge.

[boxbrownie]

2 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

The Lodeckers often lost the vents on the edges of the roof under that bridge.

At least it wasn’t the passengers heads! 

[kevinlms]

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

At least it wasn’t the passengers heads! 

A minor detail, I'm sure the victims weren't complaining.

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[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The Lodeckers often lost the vents on the edges of the roof under that bridge.

 

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

At least it wasn’t the passengers heads! 

 

1 hour ago, kevinlms said:

A minor detail, I'm sure the victims weren't complaining.

When the open top buses ran under the end of Southend pier the conductor had to make sure the upstairs passengers remained seated. 

[RJS1977]

33 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

 

 

When the open top buses ran under the end of Southend pier the conductor had to make sure the upstairs passengers remained seated. 

 

Likewise,  the old brick arch Reading West Bridge used to have a sign on it to remind passengers on open top trams to remain seated. The bridge was replaced with the current girder bridge in the 1930s in preparation for the introduction of enclosed trolleybuses.

[boxbrownie]

39 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

 

 

When the open top buses ran under the end of Southend pier the conductor had to make sure the upstairs passengers remained seated. 

Surely if they were running under the “end” of the Pier they’d have more to worry about than hitting their heads 

[kevinlms]

9 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

Surely if they were running under the “end” of the Pier they’d have more to worry about than hitting their heads 

Isn't it about due for another ship to crash through? They've had enough fires to last a little while, with the last in 2005.

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

Surely if they were running under the “end” of the Pier they’d have more to worry about than hitting their heads 

The pier actually spans the seafront esplanade, thats why the trams took a detour before they reached the pier.

[lmsforever]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

 

 

When the open top buses ran under the end of Southend pier the conductor had to make sure the upstairs passengers remained seated. 

And everyone cheered as we went under the pier  after all we were on a dayout !