West Coast Shambles

[52A]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16867053

Loco on the muck, total chaos reigns, bloody amateurs.

[52D]

What they doing using a WD?

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

An Iron Lung maight have stayed on the rails!

[strang steel]

Hope that the driver is ok; it seems he is hospitalised.

[52A]

Loco appears to have been going too fast through turnout according to Notwork Fail spokesman.

[strang steel]

The NR spokesman ought to know better than to indulge in personal speculation before the official investigation has reported.

[52A]

Which will be in about 2 years, with luck.

[StoneRoad]

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.

[52A]

Railway Accident Investigations Belatedly.

[strang steel]

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.

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Its also sad that the phrase "Preventative Maintenance" seems meaningless these days. Fix only when broke.

[52A]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16896095

Salt into the wound, they couldn't run a schoolboys outing.