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Post by Chris M on May 18, 2007 17:55:44 GMT
Hundreds of Indian train passengers were apparently happy to oblige when the driver asked them to hop out and push. According to Reuters, the unscheduled jump-start happened in Patna, capital of Bihar, after "a passenger pulled the train's emergency chain and it halted in a 'neutral zone' - a short length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires". www.theregister.com/2007/05/18/unscheduled_stop/Even if the HSE wouldn't have an appoplexy at the mere thought of this, I can't imagine the London commuters being so obliging. |
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Post by Oracle on May 18, 2007 18:07:27 GMT
When L12 was gapped on a railtour in Uxbridge Sidings, the team used the thick cable kept on voard for such occasions to plug onto a conductor rail. Now that is something I would not want to do..I'd rather push the train! At Bristol Polytechnic once in '77 I think it was we student had to push-start a Bristol FLF Lodekka that had a flat battery on the bus stand inside the college campus! Good job it was a manual gearbox version!
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Post by Chris M on May 18, 2007 19:07:37 GMT
I didn't see it myself as I walked home from school, but several of my friends saw one coach attempt to bump-start another  this attempt was apparently abandoned when the rear coach put its wing mirror through the rear window of the coach it was attempting to bump start  The coach company concerned went bust not too long after this |
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Post by Phil on May 18, 2007 22:16:52 GMT
At Bristol Polytechnic once in '77 I think it was we student had to push-start a Bristol FLF Lodekka that had a flat battery on the bus stand inside the college campus! Good job it was a manual gearbox version! Did that in Stroud at least once - with adult commuters! The choice given them (at 1730 hrs) was to bump-start it or wait for the first bus to be returned to depot at end of shift 1 1/2 hours later. It had been a bad day and there literally was not a single spare bus of any description around, and the rescue vehicle was 9 miles away sorting out one of the other failures. So what choice would YOU have made if you were a commuter?? |
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Post by Dmitri on May 19, 2007 22:39:13 GMT
I was once involved in pushing a trolleybus (it stopped on the 'neutral section' in the middle of the crossroad) and in the push-starting a wheeled tractor (its starting motor failed). Never tried to push a train, though  . |
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this attempt was apparently abandoned when the rear coach put its wing mirror through the rear window of the coach it was attempting to bump start 
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