[modeleng] Re: Crash-Full size.

Well, over here, just about all crossings are "level
crossings" and from childhood, we were taught the
maxim: "Stop! Look! and Listen!"

Al
--- Dave Beaman <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Seriously, We have had a few crunches and a lot of
> near misses on the SVR 
> and none has ever been attributed to the loco crew
> or railway. This coach 
> driver was lucky and I don't want to prejudge any
> inquiry results but this 
> situation is becoming all too common on the big
> railway as well as preserved 
> railways. I will await the outcome of this with
> interest.
> 
> You will recall the 2 drivers killed on the RHDR,
> thats the loco drivers and 
> not the car drivers. Both motorists were found
> guilty of road offences but 
> were, in my opinion, not punished with any real
> severity. I do not know the 
> outcome of the crash on the SVR but to say, the
> locals still leave the gates 
> open on the occupation crossing and have driven
> across in front of a train, 
> albeit a light engine, since the accident. Perhaps
> they think a light engine 
> won't kill them!!!
> 
> Ok, off my soapbox now but this sort of thing really
> gets my goat and spoils 
> my hobby as well as some drivers lives.
> 
> Dave.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:31 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Crash-Full size.
> 
> 
> Don'y you start carping on about it as well Harry!
> <VBG> I think Nigel meant
> that it was a load of old cods-wallop ... <VBG>
> 
> Tony.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:16 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Crash-Full size.
> 
> 
> > At 10:04 AM 6/19/07 -0500, you wrote:
> >>A report which even by the BBC's standards is
> inaccurate carp.
> >
> >   It was the nightly fish train then?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harry Wade
> > Nashville  Tennessee
> >
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