[modeleng] Re: SVR rail crash
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:45:33 -0800 (PST)
Welcome aboard and I am sure that we all on the list
share your sentiments.
Al Messer
--- Paul Sherriff <Paul.Sherriff@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I used to be involved with the Romney Hythe and
> Dymchurch railway a few
> years and having been on the footplate a few times,
> I can say that when =
> you
> approached the 'notorious' crossings, your heart was
> in your mouth. One
> crossing in particular was on the approach to Hythe
> and seemed to be =
> where
> all the recent accidents have been. Don't know
> why...
>
> I was on the footplate with one well known driver on
> the railway, Mike
> Jaques, when a landrover shot across the front of us
> a mere 10-15' =
> away. He
> said there would be a phone call to the office from
> an angry local =
> resident
> complaining that the lights were not working and he
> was nearly hit by a
> train.
>
> Crap... The lights come on when the train is about
> 200yds from the =
> crossing
> and we see a flashing white light from the
> footplate, a mirror on the =
> lamp
> the motorists see... Along with full sized A4 style
> (and 2 original A4)
> whistles, blasting away as a matter of course there
> is no excuse.
>
> The RHDR can't afford barriered crossings, they cost
> =A335,000 each and =
> the
> railway doesn't make that much spare cash in 2
> years...and there are 16
> crossings.
>
> A loco (Black Prince) was taken off the tracks a
> couple of years ago, =
> no one
> was seriously injured but last year, Kevin Crouch, a
> lovely lad who was =
> a
> regular signalman at Hythe with me was killed when
> driving 'Samson'
>
> Would you believe that a woman, impatient to wait
> behind several cars =
> that
> had parked up waiting for the train to cross,
> overtook them and =
> collided
> with the loco. She lived, although how she did in a
> Ford Escort as =
> opposed
> to 22 tons of engine, 32 tons of carriages and 4 or
> 5 tons of people =
> still
> beggars belief. Kevin was killed in between the
> 'scissored' engine and
> tender.
>
> I just don't understand the mentality of people like
> this and the more =
> I
> learn about these people the more I love my dog...
>
> Sorry for sounding off but at least I have delurked
> now...
>
> Rgds
>
> Paul
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