G'Day Gents
I once had the disconcerting experience of coming out of Gasworks tunnel at 25MPH,at 3.30am, after my driver fell asleep after leaving Bounds Green CS, with the 'odd stock' bound for Kings Cross, at Holloway I looked at my driver who was sitting up straight, with his hand on the controller which was fully open, and travelling at at 'least' 75 MPH, a few moments later I called across to him, asking him if he was 'alright' with a start he asked, 'where are we' I said 'just about to enter Copenhagen' tunnel' Oh sugar---- and slammed on the brakes, seeing that we had about 14 on and vacuum to boot, we took a while to slow down, we were still doing about 50MPH when we entered Gasworks tunnel, I was by that time starting to get a bit worried !!
We hit the end of the platform (5 or 6) at about 15MPH and stopped perfectly 10' from the buffers, on getting out of the loco, my driver said, shaking his head, 'I fell asleep, I don't believe it, I fell asleep' I never fell asleep on a loco again, whilst it was moving...........
manna