ON TRACK MACHINE FIRE - NEAR DUNTON GREEN

[Pandora]

On 23/04/2021 at 11:20, Trainshed Terry said:

 

 The heat damage to the body work is clear to see, but it is the damage internally that could be worse that it looks. I thourght that there was fire suppression equipment fitted to locomotives and on track machine. 

 

Terry.

The diesel engine is enclosed within a compartment,  there are crew walkway passages between the engine compartment and the scorched  metal of the bodywork in the image, the engine compartment has an automatic fire fighting system, but it needed the experts  to extinguish the fire, 6 Fire Appliances attended,  few systems could have coped with such a fire,  the cloud of smoke was visible 30 miles away to the west on the London Brighton main line, the cloud was seen rising from the horizon and resembled the classic mushroom shape of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb

[cunningduck]

16 hours ago, caradoc said:

 

One of the many roles of NR Controls is arranging the management of pollution incidents, ie sending staff to site, arranging specialist clean-up if required, and advising the relevant environmental authority (in our case in Scotland, SEPA) and if necessary facilitating their attendance. I have to say that by far the majority of such incidents involved hydraulic fluid from OTMs..... We always made sure to advise them when the fluid was bio-degradable, although I do recall one of their officials not being particularly impressed by that !

 

Don’t tell them you’ve used washing up liquid to disperse the oil either, SEPA were never too pleased with that!!