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« Reply #76 on: March 16, 2011, 18:24:14 » |
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I think that might be last May (2010) the poster is referring to.. That has been happening daily since then   Correct the poster is a year old |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #77 on: March 16, 2011, 21:54:13 » |
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I think that might be last May (2010) the poster is referring to.. That has been happening daily since then Correct the poster is a year old Ha ha though.. nice to see they've not replaced it with an updated one (that doesn't mention May) so as not to confuse people |
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« Reply #78 on: March 16, 2011, 23:47:26 » |
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Should have been to Specsavers!
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« Reply #79 on: March 17, 2011, 16:54:05 » |
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I assume the new arrangement will require three drivers. One to take the Bourne End portion forward. One to dispose of the remainder of the Paddington train and the third to run the Marlow/Bourne End shuttle as now.
Only one driver, the 2 car part of the train remains stabled in plat 5 at Maidenhead certaily for part of the evening |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #80 on: March 29, 2011, 20:56:43 » |
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I assume the new arrangement will require three drivers. One to take the Bourne End portion forward. One to dispose of the remainder of the Paddington train and the third to run the Marlow/Bourne End shuttle as now.
Only one driver, the 2 car part of the train remains stabled in plat 5 at Maidenhead certaily for part of the evening Seems like they join up again before heading back towards Paddington. I'm not sure where they go, but is there a reason that it couldn't be used as a passenger service? |
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« Reply #81 on: March 29, 2011, 21:03:59 » |
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I don't have an answer to your question, hertzsprung - but welcome to the forum!  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #82 on: March 29, 2011, 21:20:03 » |
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Goes to Slough and then proceeds towards Reading Depot
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« Reply #83 on: March 29, 2011, 22:00:13 » |
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I don't know if it was a special but the week before last there was a two car run out of service from Maidenhead nightly at 21:42 to platform 13 at Paddington where it joined with a three car from Banbury to form a late evening service to Reading. The service on the branch was taken over by a fresh unit from Reading. So I was told by someone in the know.
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« Reply #84 on: December 06, 2011, 23:14:04 » |
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« Reply #85 on: December 07, 2011, 07:02:33 » |
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What a load of over hyped journalistic tripe. I was at Furze Platt on Monday morning at 06:50, yes the wig-wags were flashing and the waring klaxon sounding when a train was not present; when the UP arrived from Cookham the wig-wags continued flashing and the waring klaxon continued sounding and the barriers dropped the white flashing train drivers proceed light started to flash the drive sounded his horn and proceeded at a snails pace across the the level Xing. There was no sign of the Police at that time yet the fault had been reported at least 20 mins earlier by the station staff.
Lets get this in perspective the Xing failed in a safe mode the warning wig-wags kept flashing RED which means to road user should STOP do not proceed if a car had hit a train it would have been because the car drive broke the law!
Maidenhead Advertiser you are a better news paper than this, please no not stoop to the levels of the National tabloids
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« Reply #86 on: December 07, 2011, 12:54:36 » |
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I totally agree Electric Train. As a journalist I despair sometimes at the things you see written. While I am on my high horse I have lost count how many times people have written "a train was speeding over a crossing..." Even a leading railway magazine was guilty of that recently. A train is far less lilkely to be breaking line speed than a car on the adjacent road. Perhaps we should put black boxes in cars!
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« Reply #87 on: January 11, 2012, 16:12:49 » |
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From the Bucks Free Press: A man has died after being hit by a train near Marlow railway station this afternoon.
He was hit by the 1.06pm service from Marlow to Maidenhead near the Mill Lane level crossing and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
The man has not yet been identified. British Transport Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.
The line between Marlow and Maidenhead was closed for a time due to the incident, with a replacement bus service running in its place, although the line has now been handed back to Network Rail by police investigating the collision.
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #88 on: January 11, 2012, 16:42:29 » |
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This always makes me so sad to read this whatever the circumstances
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« Reply #89 on: January 12, 2012, 11:13:42 » |
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Very sad, sympathy to all those involved.
The 11th seems to been a bad day with another incident at Stroud.
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