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    Quote Originally Posted by Sleepy View Post
    He would have had little time to react.
    Sounds like media rhetoric Ian. I think suburban train drivers have a tough gig with many of them experiencing horrible stuff - best not discussed here though.
    Agreed, I was taking a shot at the media sensationalism, rather than the driver.
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    Like Ian just said to me should have a very mild slope on the platform sloping away from the track.....would mean putting in drainage but so what...

    got to be safer then having a platform that slopes into the track.....and things like this happening
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grockle View Post
    I blame Frank Hornby
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    Coops!!

    I will get fired up soon!, it puts a spark in my boiler to see this and I consider it a miscarraige of justice if someone doesnt steam over to your place right now and railroad your sorry backside out of town!!!


    Making puns like that show that you really dont know your station in life, obviously someone has tickets on themselves..... now its time you made tracks.... go on!!!

    I dont know, the boys just (when it comes to rail)yards behind!!!

    anyway....
    like I said Coops no more puns, you wouldnt catch me doing it!

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    Or his cousin Terry Triang.
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    You ought to be on your guard,or else i will be steaming mad,and puff away at training whilst thinking that you are a shunt.
    And here I was being serious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sleepy View Post
    And here I was being serious.

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    Sorry Sleeps, thought you were being normal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dullbird View Post
    Like Ian just said to me should have a very mild slope on the platform sloping away from the track.....would mean putting in drainage but so what...

    got to be safer then having a platform that slopes into the track.....and things like this happening
    and why not have the government run a training session, fully funded by the taxpayer, to train mothers and other people, like dads, brothers and sisters, carers, relations and ****wits standing around at a station,
    about how to hold a pram.
    Safe Travels
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    Quote Originally Posted by harry View Post
    and why not have the government run a training session, fully funded by the taxpayer, to train mothers and other people, like dads, brothers and sisters, carers, relations and ****wits standing around at a station,
    about how to hold a pram.
    Harry accidents happen..... I'm sure you have probably experienced one or two in your life where you have though **** I wont be doing that again.

    Lighten up it was only a suggestion to make a platform safer...
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    That accident should not have happended and could have been avoided if the Mother had been standing sideways with the Pram paralel to the train tracks not at 90 Deg on the platform if she wanted to adjust her dress/trousers whatever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sleepy View Post
    And here I was being serious.

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    who's in the chair,I won't be railroaded in to it

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    This had a good outcome but I agree with harry, you can't protect people from themselves and in this case it was a genuine accident.

    The woman wasn’t negligent, she simply let go of the handle of the pram to adjust her clothing, the fact that the slop on the platform was that slight that she didn’t realise the pram would roll just helped to make it an accident.

    Watch the video, she is already paying for the accident in the fact that I reckon she scared 10 years off her life.

    The driver is the innocent party in this but would be having nightmares about now.

    As for him applying the breaks and then just becoming a passenger, if only.

    Unlike a car driver, where you can try to swerve to miss something or jump harder on the brake pedal, the driver, from the time he throws the brakes to full emergency, see everything from that point on in slow motion, and it ain’t a good feeling.

    Like the woman, he will remember that for the rest of his life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dullbird View Post
    Harry accidents happen..... I'm sure you have probably experienced one or two in your life where you have though **** I wont be doing that again.

    Lighten up it was only a suggestion to make a platform safer...
    eh' iwasa makinadajok,
    idona wanna govermint to payforada retrainin, makada people payeh'

    i wasn't going to bother with this story,
    but now i will.

    i have a friend in melbourne whose daughter [many years ago] when she was about 18 had a similar accident, only it wasn't a pram, it was her.

    i forget now what sort of train was involved, however i seem to remember it as one of the old red rattlers with the outward hinged doors.
    the accident happened at cheltenham station.
    as the train was either entering or leaving the station [i told you it was a long time ago] she was collected by part of the train, spun around and fell off the platform and went down between the carriages of the moving train
    [the train driver was not aware of this] and when they found her, she was unconcious, and unmarked.
    she had dropped below the moving train and was laid out in the space between the rail and the platform wall.
    sometimes there is a god.
    Safe Travels
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