johnofwessex

Minehead?

In the early 80's I was coming down Black Dog Hill on the A36 late one night when a Citroen Dyane shot past me.

He must have been pedal to the metal all the way from Salisbury

20 hours ago, JOHNMCDRAGON said:

I think I remember a case like that in the late sixties, maybe early seventies of a driver being killed leaning out trying to spy on a 'courting couple'.

https://www.railcar.co.uk/topic/features/cricklewood-driver/

Just before you get to Nostalgia Not Yet

3 hours ago, Reorte said:

That one had passed me by. Another reason to be extremely depressed about the suspicious, untrusting, disrespectful, intrusive excuse of a world we now live in. God I hate it, it's all so dehumanising. No doubt the usual suspects will turn up shortly to berate me for not finding everything we do being monitored a wonderful prospect.

 

Hoping that in a few years conversions of ordinary, bog-standard current or slightly older cars (let's say 15-20 years old) to electric will be practical and affordable. Without the past rust problems that should give a platform that should last indefinitely, without all the modern "features" I'd much rather do without.

So, if you are involved in an accident then you dont want investigators to be able to find out exactly what happened?

Driving is a licenced activity not a right and it carries the potential to cause death or serious injury.  If someone is driving like a we have the right to know so appropriate action can be taken.

9 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

No comment necessary.

Is there something about 4x4 drivers..........

2 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

Two years, suspended, and a two year disqualification, amongst other stocking fillers, apparently.  I like the requirement to complete an "accredited thinking skills programme" within 20 days.

 

https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2024/april/15-04-2024/man-sentenced-for-dangerous-driving-and-child-neglect--m40/

 

I suggest a proper psychiatric examination might be in order, I suspect that his capacity to think may be seriously impaired

A candidate for a Hospital Order surely

4 hours ago, big jim said:

we had that about 15 years back, a crash for cash scam, they tried to claim for a bad neck and back but unfortunately for the other person they didn’t bank on me finding a photo of them an owners club website doing a cartwheel and running up a mountainside 2 days after the crash! 
 

he’d claimed he’d been to his GP who said he had whiplash etc but on the same forum had said the week previous that he didn’t have a GP since moving house some 3 years previous! 
 

I sent the pics and a screenshot of the GP thread to my insurance company who forwarded them to their solicitor and surprise surprise I didn’t hear a thing back

 

after they got convinced of dangerous driving in the crown court and ended up having the book thrown at them I went through aslef and sued them back, it hadn’t crossed my mind at the time but as he tried it on with me I thought I’d do it back to him especially as he put my then 5 yr old kid and 9 month pregnant wife in hospital, we all got compensation from his insurance, the joys of being in a good union! 
 

 

 

Do ASLEF provide Hitmen?

5 hours ago, pH said:

45519 and 60110 are both supposed to have had their nameplates removed at times by shedmasters who disapproved.

Wasn't there a row when 60110 was used to haul a special for the WI?

Naming a modern train Lady Godiva with matching vinyl's anyone?

I'd be doing a Monsieur Alphonse (Undertaker from Allo Allo,)clutching my heart and keeling over

42 minutes ago, 97406 said:

 

Not all do. Edward Colston for instance.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67370120

The position around Colston is complex but there was basically a Victorian 'Cult' built up around him partly I suggest with a view to keeping the lower orders quiet

36 minutes ago, Reorte said:

I'm guessing that the bypass wasn't built for horses and carts!

No, for practitioners of the solitary vice

I would have thought that Clive of India was far worse

I live in Frome and we have had two fatal accidents on the bypass, both caused by men over 40, and high on drugs, so don't blame the youngsters for everyone.

What we do have though is increasingly powerful vehicles that are not a good fit for the current road system that was built for horses and carts coupled with cheap technology that allows them to be reigned in to some extent.

What I do think though is that we need to ask some serious questions about the sort of vehicles we allow on our roads in terms of speed, acceleration & size. 

Firstly I suggest that the biggest issue isnt testing its enforcement and the knowlege that if you drive like a than you will find yourself waiting at the bus stop.

I would also suggest that there should be a restriction on the maximum weight and power that you are allowed to drive as a 'new' driver.  I would also suggest a similar restriction for anyone with more than say 6 points on their licence.

So its an Izetta for you Wayne until you have had a clean licence for two years....... 

13 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

"Brass Finishing Shop, Cammel Lairds"

 

Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/apr/16/wed-wait-all-day-for-a-train-america-by-rail-in-pictures-justine-kurland

Try again!

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...n-america-by-rail-in-pictures-justine-kurland

Some interesting pictures and views of US Railways - and a small boy

Casper thought living in a van was normal – that other mothers loaded sheet film at highway rest stops

Bit like being married ............

A few years ago I re roofed my log shed with Onduline which was easy to work and unlike felt should be good for many years 

For what its worth my brother has a log cabin garage he uses as a workshop which is heated - or cooled by a heat pump

I remember having a discussion with a LT Engineer about crashworthiness.

I suggest that the issue now isnt the ability of the stock to withstand a crash, its the ability of the passengers to survive the impact.

I would imagine that in the case of the nuclear flask test (Think Hixton) the crashworthiness of the MK1 stock would be irrelevant 

There are many issues and while I dont want to declare 'open season' on chavs, my view is that if you attack people or steal their stuff and end up getting a kicking, tough, dont go wailing to the law

20 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Out for a chug through the countryside today on our motorcycles we found ourselves filtering through traffic and up ahead is a VW Golf with clouds of armpit smelling weed smoke coming out of the windows. 

Coming into the next town on our round trip we pass a Ford Focus, different car, same problem, both drivers oblivious to what was going on around them.

 

It occurred to me that dropping a grenade into the driver's footwell might wake him up.

 

For about four seconds anyway...

Has it been reported?

Whay was the 1938 pooling of PO wagons?

I thought that the entire point of PO wagons was that the owners controlled them.

Police?  More like a job for The Inspector of Lunatics, or is Broadmoor missing an inmate?