avonside1563 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Just spotted this on Twitter. Looks like a voyager misjudged things in chester https://twitter.com/wrexhamtown/status/403134836648738816/photo/1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Oops. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Also on the BBC site:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-25016996 I confess I hadn't realised Chester was now in Merseyside.. Perhaps related to rail-head conditions? There was a train failure at Walmer (dahn sarff) this morning due to a combination of ice and leaves- curious thing was that it wasn't a very early-morning departure, but around 08:00. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 'Wheels picked up guv' (No. 1 in the Drivers' book of phrases to be used when responding to 'please explain' memos). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 Someone will be getting a new bike courtesy of mr branson! Photo by a friend on the scene EDIT: BETTER PICS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Before anyone asks, yes I was on, and for obvious reasons, no I can't comment...sorry!! JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I didn't realise Voyagers had conventional buffers behind the plastic bits... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 Before anyone asks, yes I was on, and for obvious reasons, no I can't comment...sorry!! JF For a moment i thought "captain chaos" had returned as station manager Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 I would imagine that if the wheels did pick up in a situation such as running towards a set of stops then your options start to disappear pretty quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 I would imagine that if the wheels did pick up in a situation such as running towards a set of stops then your options start to disappear pretty quickly.I suppose its just a case of sit back and brace yourself for impact once all options are exhausted As ken dodd once said..... "I wanna die in my sleep, not screaming like my passengers" Which is also my motto in life Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Someone will be getting a new bike courtesy of mr branson! Blinkin cyclists!............."He just pulled right out in front of me Gov`....there was nowt I could do!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Got its beard stuck in the buffers! XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 Just been informed that the only casualty, the pushbike, belongs to a driver at chester, My thoughts go out to him having to walk home this afternoon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 I would imagine that if the wheels did pick up in a situation such as running towards a set of stops then your options start to disappear pretty quickly. Yes - but it depends where as the WSP (wheel slide protection) should come into effect and stop the slide. But if the stops are pretty close when adhesion is lost then all else is also lost and that can be the result (assuming everything else was working and being done correctly etc, etc). Sometimes just one thing not quite right and that's it, A good many years ago one of my Drivers collided a brand new HST set, just ending its delivery trip, with a very substantial stop block so back the set went to works for the whole train to be lifted - as presumably will happen with this set. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CovDriver Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 Someone will be getting a new bike courtesy of mr branson! Photo by a friend on the scene EDIT: BETTER PICS Courtesy of Mr Daffe by any chance ? they look very similar to the ones he put on Facebook then removed them a short while later!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 No, someone else's pictures that they let me use Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Just been informed that the only casualty, the pushbike, belongs to a driver at chester, My thoughts go out to him having to walk home this afternoon! Oh no not a bike- time to fit all trains with CPWS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 As a 'traction trainee' all those years ago; I remember my driver on the unfitted Shotwicks (Iron-Ore bogie hoppers), he was an old-hand and said if ever she picked up her skirts and ranaway on us, we had to take certain steps: firstly, I should give continuous short blasts on the horn....... I asked: "What other steps do we take driver?".............."Bloody big ones!".......was the reply! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 20, 2013 That's going to take a lot of Milliput to get it back in shape.................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corax67 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Ouch! That won't come out with T-Cut. Glad to hear the casualty was the bike though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 its a bit of an extreme way to test the structual integrity of the new front fairings! looking at a picture from another angle it looks like most of the damage has been caused by the wooden buffer beam breaking off and being sent through the glass http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-25016996 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 all the journo's on twitter trying to get an interview out of the person who took the photo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 Anyone got a 57, 4 coaches and DVT they aren't using? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spannerman Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Certainly looks like a brown adrenalin moment for someone! Nik Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 Whilst William Baffin was famous for "lunar distance" - amongst other things - the distance to the "stops" obviously eluded him on this occasion. 221105 is named William Baffin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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