Disaster training exercise

Can you fix that link?

They are using 7 D stock cars in total.

Careless, very careless.

One of our dinosaurs is missing?

Add 17122 to that list

It's quite odd I think that at some point, I was sat in one of those carriages where the ends have been cut off. Must be even more odd for our T/Op members. I probably ought to pay more attention to my lecture instead of trying to work out how many times I'd have sat in one of those cars

As all the cars are trailers, T/Ops are perhaps the least likely people to have travelled in them!

Anyone know why at least two of the cars have had two different numbers sprayed on their roofs? (6 overwritten by 8 on the nearest) And why they chose a scenario of Waterloo, where all trains are either in deep tubes and probably safe from collapsing tower blocks or, on the NR station, under nothing more substantial than a glass roof. (Although I note that, probably coincidentally, the old Shell Building above the Bakerloo/Northern Tube station is currently being demolished),

Possibly for positioning of them on site? I would have thought that the modifications such as cutting off body sides would have been done before moving them into position, so the numbers were added to the roofs to allow the people moving them to install them in the right orders and places.

I realise that the numbers are painted on to help identification, particularly from the air. (They can often be seen in footage of rail crashes and multi-car pile ups) But why were the numbers changed in this case?

It's a great use of the trains though - might save some lives in the future. What will the world think - it looks like we have trains to throw away!

many years ago,when i was working for a main line freight company, we were involved with a similar set up in temple mills yard,east London. the scenario was a few mk1 coaches placed to simulate a head on crash,with coaches placed on top of one another.we were observers,but there were over 100 injured and dead actors. the injuries looked so real that it was quite upsetting warching it. the emergency services(apart from the bosses and control)were not told it was only a exercise, until they arrived. it was a fascinating but surreal day. there was true sadness though the next day as when the stratford break down crew were disassembling the coaches,somehow,one toppled over and crushed to death one of the crew.sad day.

The missing coach is obviously buried beneath the others, it said so on the FB link! I don't suppose it's very often that the services get to use current rolling stock on such an exercise.

looks like another night down the east end of the District so they are back in there natural habitat