West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:44 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16867053
Loco on the muck, total chaos reigns, bloody amateurs.
Loco on the muck, total chaos reigns, bloody amateurs.
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Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:38 pm
What they doing using a WD?
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:53 pm
Ay up!
An Iron Lung maight have stayed on the rails!
An Iron Lung maight have stayed on the rails!
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:39 pm
Hope that the driver is ok; it seems he is hospitalised.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:59 pm
Loco appears to have been going too fast through turnout according to Notwork Fail spokesman.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:59 pm
The NR spokesman ought to know better than to indulge in personal speculation before the official investigation has reported.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:10 pm
Which will be in about 2 years, with luck.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:14 pm
RAIB are on the case, so a 'report' should surface, eventually......
No further info on the driver of the light engine......
I gather some progress has meant two out of four lines are now open.
No further info on the driver of the light engine......
I gather some progress has meant two out of four lines are now open.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:52 am
Railway Accident Investigations Belatedly.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:56 pm
It strikes me as a sad inevitability of the accountant-led railway, where spare rolling stock is anathema, that a light engine has to be sent all the way from Crewe to Wembley just to pick up the substitute Pendolino stock.
In another world the loco would be sent from Willesden.
In another world the loco would be sent from Willesden.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:12 pm
Ay up!
Its also sad that the phrase "Preventative Maintenance" seems meaningless these days. Fix only when broke.
Its also sad that the phrase "Preventative Maintenance" seems meaningless these days. Fix only when broke.
Re: West Coast Shambles
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:39 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16896095
Salt into the wound, they couldn't run a schoolboys outing.
Salt into the wound, they couldn't run a schoolboys outing.