[modeleng] Re: Crash-Full size.

Only when some fool tries to beat the train to the
crossing!  Some people just don't ever learn I guess!

Al
--- Barrie Purslow <bpduo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Interesting comment Al. Are your railways plagued by
> this type of accident?
> 
> Barrie
> Warrington UK
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:18 AM
> Subject: [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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