Spotted by RH at the BBC, adding "Now it's sabotage!":
Rail services through Northamptonshire and Warwickshire were suspended after an engineering train derailed as it hit a cow.
Buses are replacing London Midland trains between Northampton and Rugby after the engineering train hit the animal early on Friday at Long Buckby. Services are not likely to return to normal until Friday afternoon.
The train remained upright after the crash. The incident has not affected Virgin services. A Network Rail spokeswoman said: "An engineering train struck an animal in the early hours causing two sets of wheels to come off the tracks. Engineers are working to get the train back on the rails so the line can be reopened."
Friday, 14 October 2011
"Northampton to Rugby rail services hit as cow derails train"
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Derailed an effing train?!!! They're getting disgruntled, Mark. What with that stag 'n all.
JH, how do you mean "getting disgruntled"? They've been doing this for ages. See:
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this.
Never understood why those big snow-plough shaped cow catchers they had on U.S locos never caught on over here.They could ,with a flick of a switch,even double as snowploughs .
Well, theoretically we didn't need them in the UK 'coz the whole rail network was supposed to be walled off or fenced off from rampaging farm animals. Whereas US tracks were just laid out on the open prairie and anything from a bunny to a bison was free to wander into the path of an oncoming train. So cowcatchers were unnecessary in the UK but vital in the US.
Wonder how the cow managed to get onto the tracks? Either the fences are in a bad state of repair or that cow was wilier than most.
DBC, if you designed them right, it would make it difficult for people to kill themselves by jumping in front of a train, which would be good for train drivers, commuters or the poor sods who have to scrape up the bits and pieces.
D, cows can jumps over walls and fences.
They can? Now you've got me really anxious.
D, yes, there are a couple of famous examples of bulls leaping into the stands in bull fighting arenas.
Plus, as somebody who compiles these things, I can tell you there are plenty of other examples of cows jumping over fences and attacking people.
"Wonder how the cow managed to get onto the tracks? Either the fences are in a bad state of repair or that cow was wilier than most."
Hell, if they can jump over the Moon...
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