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Post by Christopher J on Jun 1, 2006 12:32:00 GMT
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Post by version3point1 on Jun 1, 2006 12:40:13 GMT
Good grief.
As for keys, either they've stolen them, or they've purchased them off eBay. You can get most things off eBay these days; J door keys, selector keys, uniform...
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Post by Tomcakes on Jun 1, 2006 13:07:41 GMT
Do you need keys to start a shunter? Don't they just have an engine fire button, so it'd just be a case of them bashing the doors in.
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Post by doubletrigger on Jun 1, 2006 18:08:26 GMT
You don't need a key to access a gronk nor start and drive it. They are the most primitive of all locos on the railway, consider their age and purpose. There has been various accusations flying around today in the industry about these youths being enthusiasts/spotters with claims of a normal being unable to get in and get the thing moving without any prior knowledge. I loved the Daily Star claiming "hurtling up and down the yard"..... at a full bore of 15mph in a gronk! Not quite hurtling but still potentially dangerous. Whatever next though, from people stealing headrests, graffiti to people actually effectively hijacking the things? Hope they get caught! |
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Post by donnytom on Jun 1, 2006 18:43:52 GMT
At least they weren't 'proper' joyriders so didn't actually set it on fire afterwards...
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Post by doubletrigger on Jun 1, 2006 19:12:36 GMT
At least they weren't 'proper' joyriders so didn't actually set it on fire afterwards... Joyriding doesn't include Arson in it's definition... though yes, that's the way it goes a lot of times! |
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Post by donnytom on Jun 1, 2006 21:32:42 GMT
At least they weren't 'proper' joyriders so didn't actually set it on fire afterwards... Joyriding doesn't include Arson in it's definition... though yes, that's the way it goes a lot of times! Particularly if they call upon a certain Arson Sam... ;D They must have been enthusiasts of some sort, like that lad in America that pinched a tram and those that crop up every so often who zoom around in buses for a while. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2006 21:48:24 GMT
remember reading a few years ago about a group of [5] teenagers who nicked a loco from some yard near Sheffield [Knottingley???] managed to start the thing without a master key and drove it 'about 16 miles up the track'.
They got caught, because a signalbox was broken into and levers operated. They were given suspended sentence.
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Post by doubletrigger on Jun 1, 2006 21:50:38 GMT
Joyriding doesn't include Arson in it's definition... though yes, that's the way it goes a lot of times! Particularly if they call upon a certain Arson Sam... ;D Blimey, is that all that is left of my reputation these days?  Might be worth mentioning the impending episode 4 then...  |
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Post by doubletrigger on Jun 1, 2006 21:51:18 GMT
remember reading a few years ago about a group of [5] teenagers who nicked a loco from some yard near Sheffield [Knottingley???] managed to start the thing without a master key and drove it 'about 16 miles up the track'. They got caught, because a signalbox was broken into and levers operated. They were given suspended sentence. Not Tinsley per chance? As that is where this incident occured. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2006 21:53:38 GMT
Could have been, not exactly sure. My memory isnt as good as it used to be!!!
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Post by Tomcakes on Jun 1, 2006 22:01:22 GMT
I didn't think there was anything still left Tinsley anymore - just very overgrown...
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Post by doubletrigger on Jun 1, 2006 22:15:25 GMT
I didn't think there was anything still left Tinsley anymore - just very overgrown... It is still operational but not nearly as much as it once was and the yard is considerably smaller in terms of what is usable these days. |
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Post by ttran on Jun 2, 2006 7:08:56 GMT
They must have been enthusiasts of some sort, like that lad in America that pinched a tram and those that crop up every so often who zoom around in buses for a while. That lad in America? Last I checked the most recent tram jacking was by a boy from Melbourne about a year ago... |
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Post by pakenhamtrain on Jun 2, 2006 8:37:49 GMT
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Post by donnytom on Jun 2, 2006 8:57:00 GMT
Ah, that's the one! I knew it was somewhere sunny, anyway.  |
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It is worrying, how did they get hold of the necessary keys to start the shunter in the first place? 
It is worrying, how did they get hold of the necessary keys to start the shunter in the first place? 
