Agreed. Although Paul Clifton may be a reporter, should there have been a way for the driver to be informed, for the train to be stopped. No good calling 'Ghostbusters', so who? It could have been a lot worse.
All bridges should have a sign on with a contact to call the Network Rail control room, who can then contact signaller and ultimately the driver.
If you’re actually on or at a road/rail bridge ringing the NR number on the bridge information plate will almost certainly be quicker.
You use GSMR to contact drivers these days and the signaller have an All Stop Emergency message available as well
Bottom line is this is another example of tree that shouldn't be there especially as it looks like its inside the boundary
It sounds like someone in the clip was on the phone reporting it at the time.
Paul Clifton has re-tweeted it? He’s received it from the person at the scene, who it now seems was phoning it in at the time.
Must be watching a different video, as it certainly looks like the train is slowing down.
Are you watching the video backwards or something? It is slowing down, and the video also shows the train stopping
100% its slowing, else it would have stopped half a mile along (or off...) the line! Trains don't stop on a sixpence
I wondered, too, whether the people recording/reporting it were also waving their arms to "signal" to the driver that there was an issue
I suspect the driver would have seen the tree before the people waving.
Trees are important, but there are places where they shouldn't be.
A frequent thought of mine in 1970 aged 17.
Are those special covers to hide the fact that the sleepers are historically incorrect concrete? Just asking for a friend.Where's Jenny Agutter when you need her?
[image of classic 1970 film The Railway Children, featuring a famous scene of kids waving to warn a train of a hazard, albeit from within the four-foot, thereby causing a hazard themselves]
I suspect that if they were aiming for historical accuracy, that GWR pannier tank wouldn't have been painted in that peculiar livery, or will someone correct me that they did carry this in service at some point?
It was representing a fictional "Great Northern and Southern Railway"... but I think we're getting a bit off the topic now?
