number6 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Hastings Diesels outing to Lowestoft delayed by ugly ducklings... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
number6 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 6 hours ago, Oldddudders said: So that's why they put in barriers instead! Like driving over a big matchbox apparently. Stop to remove large piece of white painted wood from the bufferbeam at Lewes and carry on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 8, 2021 12 hours ago, roundhouse said: Its a good job that they cant swim across the Solent to Cowes... They don't have to 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 reminds me of the time sheep got on the line between Castleton and Rochdale the local Ami were just arriving at Castleton so were despatched to chase the errant sheep back into theyre field . the managers names Tommy Shepard and Bill Wooley 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, caradoc said: Cows (and bulls) on the line are a serious hazard to trains; As Bert Cheese says, remember Polmont (July 1984, 13 fatalities). I was sent to rescue a HST once after it had hit some cows - 47 on the rear and drag it back - I think it had hit 3 cows, we went over the remains of at least two. After coupling up I walked forward to have a look how things were progressing - I had brought fitters (and P way) out with me - and remember vividly the damage to the front of the HST basically everything below the buffers/headlights was missing or destroyed. However the thing I remember most was not blood or guts but that everything was covered in part digested grass and it stank! Edited May 8, 2021 by 101 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 8, 2021 I was once delayed for nearly an hour on a Reading train at Staines because there was a swan that couldn't be persuaded to move. Back in the 1980s there was a series of black metal silhouettes of galloping horses along the line between Wolverhampton and Birmingham. I was on a train from Manchester that ran at a snail's pace along that stretch* because there had been a report of horses loose on the line. I did wonder if someone had reported seeing one of these sculptures, not realising what it was! *No, not faster than usual... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthEndCab Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Assuming you don’t do something serious damage, I found the smell worse than anything else. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Lambton58 Posted May 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2021 On 08/05/2021 at 08:25, balders said: They weren't hanging around either! Express Dairies? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Lambton58 said: Express Dairies? Still milking this topic... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted May 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2021 Many years ago I went from Swansea to Llandrindod for a student weekend on a double decker bus. We hit a sheep. Fortunately some of the students did potholing so they went under the bus and removed the sheep. The bus seemed undamaged but the sheep were now lamb chops. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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