Marston Gate - All is forgiven!

“Faux News” this

Can’t beat a surprise package.

That’s one way to uncouple when in a rush :open_mouth:

Nearly got a two for as well :grimacing:

Joking aside, how lucky was that driver, 6 feet further back and he was brown bread!

You have to love the way the barriers come down afterwards! :laughing:

Stable doors and horses come to mind… Lucky sod though, change of pants required no doubt.

Not me this time!

It would be good customer PR if, when the customer received a package in this state…

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…they could then try to explain it away with a simple attached pic of "Well Customer, It was like this…"

I wonder if the driver popped back over to Ireland to visit his family days later, and by chance - bought a Euromillions ticket whilst there… A split second away from total destruction of that cab!

If this incident happened in Utah, I was wondering from any rail buffs out there - why would they be using the notorious double decker train carriages? :open_mouth:

Winseer:
If this incident happened in Utah, I was wondering from any rail buffs out there - why would they be using the notorious double decker train carriages? :open_mouth:

I can see that this is slippery slope, but why are double deck train carriages notorious? Getting more passengers onto the same length train seems like a good idea, surely?

Didn’t even knock his hat off :laughing:

Interesting the camera vehicle held back from the carnage that was about to happen, just shows observation is vital,even when it seems you have right of way.

vwvanman0:
Interesting the camera vehicle held back from the carnage that was about to happen, just shows observation is vital,even when it seems you have right of way.

Yep, I noticed that too. Looks to be footage from police cruiser? Bull bars just above bonnet, and guy getting out has a gun on his hip.

Franglais:
and guy getting out has a gun on his hip.

If this is in america they are allowed to own guns out there…

Franglais:

Winseer:
If this incident happened in Utah, I was wondering from any rail buffs out there - why would they be using the notorious double decker train carriages? :open_mouth:

I can see that this is slippery slope, but why are double deck train carriages notorious? Getting more passengers onto the same length train seems like a good idea, surely?

Having had a look for references to “accidents involving double decker rolling stock” - the internet looks as if it’s been deep cleaned… Some bigly spent corporate cash cover up there then. (Conspiracy Hat on now!)

Surely I’m not the only one who notices that “rail crashes around the world” often seem to involve these double decker things… Of course if the “trains around the world” are nothing BUT double deckers, then my observations wouldn’t amount to anything. If they are less than 5% of the rolling stock fleet though - It’s “Things that make you go hmm”. :question: :neutral_face:

Winseer:
(Conspiracy Hat on now!)

You will let us know when you take it off won’t you? :open_mouth:

As for the railway companies spending corporate cash to wipe clean the internet. Perhaps they should have a word with the US government, as that WikiLeaks scandal with Edward Snowden was a real pain in the arse for them…

Get a grip man!

Why is it that the suggestion that ‘Double Deckers are unsafe’ is met with derision but people really believe that eating GM meat is any different from any other?
Personally, I don’t give a toss what farm my meat fed at - only if the food was contaminated with DDT rather than GM crops.

Got a pack of Ibuprofen here… The list of “possible serious side effects” is as long as your arm. There isn’t really any risk worth speaking of, but Pharmaceuticals don’t like being sued, so they’ll just try and list as many things as they can “as to avoid paying out” should a highly-unlikely freak reaction happen. If you took the “Risk Warnings” seriously - you would never use ANY drug with a “warning label” on it.

I didn’t see many people ditch their mobile phones, when they were supposed to fry one’s brain…

“If two and two make four you die” - suddenly everyone is maths illiterate. Rather than deny the statement, people prefer pretending not to understand the question.
Is there an asteroid heading this way? - If there is, there’s nowt we can do about it without a one-world government. Better not talk about such things at government level then.
Some judge has blocked Trump’s attempts to deport people back to Syria and other places. Funny how “some judge” didn’t prevent any wars that have been and gone over the years. Funny how “some judge” never seems to want to bust some pop star for “wanting to blow up the Whitehouse”. Double standards there…
Everyone believes what they want to believe.
Bull has become the very air we breathe.
“Post Truth” age indeed!

Winseer:
If this incident happened in Utah, I was wondering from any rail buffs out there - why would they be using the notorious double decker train carriages? :open_mouth:

Why would a double decker train be more accident prone, than a single decker??
You seeing ghosts where there are none.
The whole world use double decker trains (80% of Nederlandse Spoorwegen material is double decker)
Americans had double decker trains for ages, even have double decker freight trains.
It’s a massive sight trains 2-3 mile long and containers stacked 2 high going through the dessert.

Are British double decker busses more accident prone than single decker■■?

Have a look at…

The comments section on Fakebook.

The C word is used.

facebook.com/pages/FedEx-UK … 5460551098

I have a habit of looking for trains regardless of what the lights are doing as I approach level crossings. (possibly early onset paranoia)

caledoniandream:
The whole world use double decker trains

The UK doesn’t.

I thought there was a flurry of close-together “fatal accidents” involving double decker trains in places like Switzerland, Austria, India, Australia etc. Different cultures, different places - but places nonetheless where the use of such rolling stock is an everyday thing. Meanwhile, in the UK - we don’t use Double Decker train carriages at all, and I’m wondering if some forward thinking government department has “ruled them out for safety reasons”.
Whatever the reasoning originally happened to be, it seems appropriate to consult such paperwork before we consider the notion that “I can’t find anything negative in case studies on the internet - so they must be 100% safe, so why are we not using them ourselves in the UK?”

Meanwhile, trying to steer this back into a TRUCK conversation - “have there been any studies done as to the safety factors involved in driving double decker trailers, especially those over 15’9” :stuck_out_tongue: :question: Serious question though, as surely we’re all aware that they cannot possibly be as safe as a lower-topped (say, 13’9") trailer which we take as “more the standard”…

Still, that doesn’t stop the odd pillock trying to squeeze one under a bridge that even a 13’9" wont fit under. :unamused:

I wonder if “Transport” is going to be a campaign issue in the forthcoming Stoke-on-Trent By-election?