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Post by trt on Jan 15, 2013 14:05:52 GMT
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Post by Deep Level on Jan 15, 2013 14:29:49 GMT
How do you get a train to hit a house?  I mean if you steal a bus you'll want to try and hide it in a garage but not a train, where exactly did she think she was going to go with it?  |
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Post by Dom K on Jan 15, 2013 14:40:36 GMT
Was the woman blonde shouting wiff waff and something about driverless trains as she jumped? |
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Post by rapidtransitman on Jan 15, 2013 14:42:36 GMT
Dom KThat's not a nice thing to say about Mrs Thatcher!
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Jan 15, 2013 15:02:43 GMT
How is she even able to get that thing moving anyway?
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Post by PGtrips on Jan 15, 2013 15:07:40 GMT
It looks like the train has gone through some buffers at the end of a siding and carried on into the building as there appears to be a set of buffers on an adjacent road.
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Post by Tom on Jan 15, 2013 16:10:53 GMT
How do you get a train to hit a house? Quite easily if you sell off railway land 50 metres beyond the buffers, it appears. |
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Post by Tom on Jan 15, 2013 16:18:06 GMT
Was the woman blonde shouting wiff waff and something about driverless trains as she jumped? That's not funny. She didn't jump and was on the train at the time of impact, and she had to be airlifted to hospital. |
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Post by trt on Jan 15, 2013 17:00:46 GMT
Quite so. She's reported to be seriously injured. Luckily the only one who was.
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 15, 2013 17:40:05 GMT
It's possible she tried to move it a few feet and found she could not stop it.
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Post by peterc on Jan 15, 2013 18:06:48 GMT
The line had been cut back from the ferry terminal and the flats built across the track bed. Looking at the arial view on Bing and Google Street View the only obsticle visible between the end of the line and the building was the buffer stop.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2013 18:09:27 GMT
It's possible she tried to move it a few feet and found she could not stop it. Whatever happened, it was not exactly the Great Train Robbery. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 15, 2013 21:21:29 GMT
It's possible she tried to move it a few feet and found she could not stop it. Reminds me of the song about the "Man who put the engine in the chip shop". Also when my mother was driving a Black Five on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway; she stopped a little short of the water column so was told to open the regulator, count to five, then close it. Five seconds after closing the regulator the loco moved gently forward, opening the regulator and waiting for the thing to move would have resulted in overshooting. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2013 13:30:25 GMT
It's possible she tried to move it a few feet and found she could not stop it. Reminds me of the song about the "Man who put the engine in the chip shop". Also when my mother was driving a Black Five on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway; she stopped a little short of the water column so was told to open the regulator, count to five, then close it. Five seconds after closing the regulator the loco moved gently forward, opening the regulator and waiting for the thing to move would have resulted in overshooting. The Dad's Army platoon getting involved in some impromtu loco shunting and get more than they bargained for. |
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Post by Tom on Jan 16, 2013 18:52:06 GMT
It's possible she tried to move it a few feet and found she could not stop it. Cleaners in Stockholm aren't permitted to move trains; that's what maintenance staff and drivers are for. In any case, to get the train from the depot to the end of the line where it happened involves a shunt out of the depot at Neglinge (two stops away)before changing ends and continuing towards the end of the line at Saltsjöbaden. The line had been cut back from the ferry terminal and the flats built across the track bed. Looking at the arial view on Bing and Google Street View the only obstacle visible between the end of the line and the building was the buffer stop. It had been about seven or so years ago, but I never remember trains going that far. I'm sure even 11 years ago when I first went there the buffer stops were in their current position. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 5:42:38 GMT
Don't forget Oh Mr Porter and the Shunting episode
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 16:38:44 GMT
Maybe her boss didn't make it clear that she wasn't allowed to take her work home with her...
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Post by trt on Jan 17, 2013 17:22:01 GMT
Maybe her boss didn't make it clear that she wasn't allowed to take her work home with her... OK. That's a genuine Laugh Out Loud. ;D |
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Post by Tom on Jan 18, 2013 7:58:21 GMT
The cynic in me can't help but think that if she's cleaning trains for a living she can't afford to live in the block of flats she destroyed. Each flat is bigger than my house!
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Post by grahamhewett on Jan 18, 2013 19:59:42 GMT
Now it turns out that she set them going by mistake... [says something about Swedish rolling stock where a cleaner can do this...].
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Post by Chris M on Jan 20, 2013 15:29:00 GMT
I suspect that there would be plenty of British rolling stock that could be set in motion by mistake if left powered-up.
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Post by metrailway on Jan 20, 2013 20:45:47 GMT
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