Recent content by 14xxDave

Yes the guys who have just replaced my water main were all dressed in orange. Seems to be the new norm!

No I mean, according to the report, one wheel on a fixed axle locked up and stopped rotating. So what happened to the other wheel on the other end?

Surely if one wheel on a fixed axle were to stop rotating the opposite wheel would also. Or am I missing something?

Once a scroat......

It died when the railway was split up into fragments. The Idea was to make sure there wasn't a large bulk of workers that could hold the country to "ransom" ie. ask for worker's rights.

Look who owns it. Nuff said!

I have a suspicion that this person does not exist. I think all faults are rectified in the depot.

Really? Can you reference data to this that doesn't come from the Daily Mail?

Well this is interesting.. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/19288479.rail-services-cancelled-cracks-found-hitachi-trains/

Just out of interest canaria11 what are you doing your masters in?

Good question and one I don't know. Maybe someone else can step in.

The problem with a bike is it's lots of spindly bits held together with some very tough bits and the soft bits can get deformed no problem but hardened steel shafts at the correct angle can lift a wheel set. Trees etc. tend to present a blank face to a unit. The process of derailment is a very...

Actually in the first case it was less than 5 seconds and you can see that the first rider saw the train coming and hurried his mates on. The second was just under 7 seconds. Either way they all ignored the instructions. Lucky people really. One day that luck will run out.

No. It is abject stupidity though.

Personally I would file it under a bad way to interact with the world. It's interesting the difference between the two sets of parents outlook on this situation.