Level crossing stupidity...

[Colin_McLeod]

Best example IMHO is "Convoy" where the made a film based on a song.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(1978_film)

[Wickham Green]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

........ All this talk about such things is probably a good sign that people are actually behaving themselves on level crossings.

 

But we've managed to reach the two hundred page landmark all the same !

[Dave Hunt]

And today I went over the level crossing at Wem again without any mishap!

 

Dave

[eastglosmog]

One from the archives: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_FrostLane1926.pdf when 20mph was considered fast!

Car equipment has certainly improved, though.  Imagine having to hand crank the winscreen wiper every 50 yards.

Must say I think the inspecting officer was a bit harsh in claiming that it was broad daylight, 45minutes to sunset on an overcast drizzly late November day is unlikely to be broad daylight!

To have been on Frost Lane when traveling from Totton to Calshot, the Flying Officer must indeed have been lost.

[Reorte]

On 20/02/2020 at 01:05, Dave Hunt said:

And today I went over the level crossing at Wem again without any mishap!

 

Better than I managed - got quite a clunk over the Furness Vale crossing this afternoon, something's getting worn there.

[The Border Reiver]

White Van Man Vs La'al Ratty

 

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/18256872.updated-dpd-responds-following-laal-ratty-incident/

[melmerby]

On 21/02/2020 at 17:36, Reorte said:

 

Better than I managed - got quite a clunk over the Furness Vale crossing this afternoon, something's getting worn there.

Suspension?

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, The Border Reiver said:

White Van Man Vs La'al Ratty

 

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/18256872.updated-dpd-responds-following-laal-ratty-incident/

Striking similarities to the vehicle-versus-train collisions on the RH&DR although thankfully without injuries and the loco was able to haul the train to its destination.  

[Reorte]

20 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Suspension?

 

Considering the state of the track to my house (road track, not rail track!), quite possibly.

[peanuts]

speechless  open and watch the video 

 

 

emonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/02/17/cette-video-d-enfants-traversant-un-passage-a-niveau-a-ete-tournee-a-prague_6029859_4355770.html?fbclid=IwAR3rySeQd4BaxuZGuNdicx6sf3zha_wAhCXtRob_lEhJqFp_Hsvg_WlzYSg

Edited February 25, 2020 by peanuts

[corneliuslundie]

There is a L missing at the start of the URL, but when I get to the site the video doesn't run .

Jonathan

[peanuts]

1 minute ago, corneliuslundie said:

There is a L missing at the start of the URL, but when I get to the site the video doesn't run .

Jonathan

thanks jonathan try this one 

 

[talisman56]

On 24/02/2020 at 16:26, The Border Reiver said:

White Van Man Vs La'al Ratty

 

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/18256872.updated-dpd-responds-following-laal-ratty-incident/

 

'...and will receive retraining."

 

DPD train their drivers???

Edited February 25, 2020 by talisman56

[Happy Hippo]

Not a level crossing but try this  for stupidity:

 

 

Edited February 26, 2020 by Happy Hippo

[Wickham Green]

11 hours ago, peanuts said:

thanks jonathan try this one 

 

Did seem to be an unnecessarily long wait for a green light ........ BUT !

[Hobby]

...they had to catch the train... (Note that they all went onto the platform!) I'd hope someone got well and truly bollocked for that!

[Jim Martin]

On 18/02/2020 at 09:55, jamie92208 said:

I think I once saw somewhere that a film usually only contains about 10% of a book's content.

 

Jamie

 

My mother was a fairly successful novelist in the 1970s. One of her books was adapted into an American TV movie called "Between Two Women" (my mum always sold well in the USA).

 

The book, for anyone familiar with our family, was a closely autobiographical story of my mum's fraught relationship with her mother-in-law, my grandmother. In the film:

 

The setting moved from the Home Counties to Malibu;

 

My dad switched from being a computer programmer to a sculptor;

 

My grandma switched from being the widow of a mid-ranking civil servant to the widow of a billionaire; 

 

and my mum switched from being my mum to being Farrah Fawcett.

 

 

[Reorte]

3 minutes ago, Jim Martin said:

 

and my mum switched from being my mum to being Farrah Fawcett.

 

 

Was your dad pleased with that?

[Jim Martin]

2 minutes ago, Reorte said:

 

Was your dad pleased with that?

He probably would have been, but I don't recall. He'd probably have been more chuffed to have been played by Michael Nouri, who you still see on TV today and who still has a fine head of hair, which my dad did not.

[kevinlms]

9 hours ago, Jim Martin said:

 

My mother was a fairly successful novelist in the 1970s. One of her books was adapted into an American TV movie called "Between Two Women" (my mum always sold well in the USA).

 

The book, for anyone familiar with our family, was a closely autobiographical story of my mum's fraught relationship with her mother-in-law, my grandmother. In the film:

 

The setting moved from the Home Counties to Malibu;

 

My dad switched from being a computer programmer to a sculptor;

 

My grandma switched from being the widow of a mid-ranking civil servant to the widow of a billionaire; 

 

and my mum switched from being my mum to being Farrah Fawcett.

 

 

Apart from those changes - just like the original!

[newbryford]

For your entertainment.

 

 

[PhilJ W]

9 minutes ago, newbryford said:

For your entertainment.

 

 

He cant even park it straight.

[newbryford]

2 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

He cant even park it straight.

 

I think that may be a she.

[meil]

28 minutes ago, newbryford said:

For your entertainment.

 

 

See 14 February post

[newbryford]

2 minutes ago, meil said:

See 14 February post

 

It's so good, it needs repeating...………...