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Title: Wouldn't want this to catch on Post by: CyclingSid on December 06, 2019, 10:32:04 https://twitter.com/TLRailUK/status/1202601786172936192 (https://twitter.com/TLRailUK/status/1202601786172936192)
Title: Re: Wouldn't want this to catch on Post by: Bmblbzzz on December 06, 2019, 17:04:11 Any idea how it happened? I couldn't see any information in the twitter thread.
Title: Re: Wouldn't want this to catch on Post by: CyclingSid on December 06, 2019, 18:52:59 I just found the link on one of the cycling sites, no other information that I could see.
Title: Re: Wouldn't want this to catch on Post by: rogerw on December 06, 2019, 18:54:19 I know they say that you can take a bike on a train, but that's ridiculous. ::) ::)
Title: Re: Wouldn't want this to catch on Post by: paul7575 on December 06, 2019, 19:12:23 If you carefully aimed it at the wires, if throwing off a bridge, would the catenary easily support a pushbike until the next passing pantograph hit it? Results almost look too neat...
Paul Title: Re: Wouldn't want this to catch on Post by: Bmblbzzz on December 06, 2019, 20:57:49 Or has it been thrown onto the roof of a train as it was passing under a bridge? I hope not; throwing it onto the wires is dangerous enough, onto the train itself must be even more so.
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