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problems Oakham LC today

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fsmr

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Tractor and trailer have blocked the main LC in Oakham, axle broken preventing barriers lowering . Trains running but delays due to being hand worked also sounds like Brooke rd also stopping trains to cross as i keep hearing them stopping to pass over, on same interlocked signals as the main LC

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story online now

http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/ne...n-oakham-blocked-by-tractor-trailer-1-4932596

Rutland & Stamford Mercury said:
Oakham level crossing shut as trailer breaks

Update: A level crossing barrier in Oakham has now been cleared after it was blocked by a tractor trailer.

The axle of the trailer, which was carrying more than 30 hay bales, collapsed at the Melton Road level crossing at about 11.50am today (Monday).

Police and Network Rail engineers were called and one lane of the road was cordoned off to traffic on the Barleythorpe Road side.

Two forklifts were also called in to move the bales and the trailer was then dragged away from the crossing.

The trailer collapsed just after it was driven over the crossing so trains were able to pass by as normal.

Traffic is once again flowing normally.


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Trailer now clear of line
 
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I suppose we should be grateful that it chose today to get stuck there - it'd have made life rather interesting over the (busy!) weekend ;) .
 

fsmr

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That trailer looks a little overloaded to me!

Yep certainly does, hope they take a carefull look at what traffic offences are involved, i can see one already on the pic

Very lucky it was on a monitored LC and not the AHBs on the Wreake valley section. It is an interesting LC to cross over with a load due to adverse camber as is Brooke rd , the other one, I always go over at under 10 mph with a trailer on for that very reason. Also handy that NWR have their yard in Oakham so were on the scene PDQ although railway property wasnt damaged on this ocassion
And as Tom says good job traffic was light at that time.
Wouldnt want to sort out who pays for this one
 

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That trailer looks a little overloaded to me!

Is that a joke?
Those look like haybales to me.
I'm not sure how much compressed hay weighs but I dont think it would be overweight even for a single axle trailer
 

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Yep certainly does, hope they take a carefull look at what traffic offences are involved, i can see one already on the pic

Very lucky it was on a monitored LC and not the AHBs on the Wreake valley section. It is an interesting LC to cross over with a load due to adverse camber as is Brooke rd , the other one, I always go over at under 10 mph with a trailer on for that very reason. Also handy that NWR have their yard in Oakham so were on the scene PDQ although railway property wasnt damaged on this ocassion
And as Tom says good job traffic was light at that time.
Wouldnt want to sort out who pays for this one

What offence can you see?
 

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You have got better eyes than me, pic is so bad how can you see if there is a rope over bales or it's been taken of ready to unload
 

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Yep certainly does, hope they take a carefull look at what traffic offences are involved, i can see one already on the pic

If by offences committed, your looking at an unsecured load, then I don't think that will stand up, as to the best of my knowledge, several bales had to be taken of the trailer before it could be moved.

Those look like haybales to me.
I'm not sure how much compressed hay weighs but I dont think it would be overweight even for a single axle trailer

I'm no expert, but it looks like a twin axle trailer to me ;)
 

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Is that a joke?
Those look like haybales to me.

No it isnt a joke, compressed hay is especially heavy, that trailer is designed for moving machinery around and wont have been designed to carry such a heavy (and high center of gravity) load.

Tell you what, as you think it is light weight, you lay on the floor and we will drop one on you from about 6 feet (2 euro measurements) up and tell us if it hurts? ;)
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Hay and straw aren't typically bagged, as far as I understand- that'l be sileage there.

Stray in the South West is normally bagged as in the picture where it is going to be used later in the year as food for the animals.
 
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OxtedL

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Stray in the South West is normally bagged as in the picture where it is going to be used later in the year as food for the animals.
As was stated, conventionally only silage is bagged. It will contain similar stuff to hay, just tends to be fermenting a bit, and is indeed animal feed.
 

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There are 21 bags on board that trailer, that is going to be a hell of a lot of weight rolling around as it goes over the crossing.

Looking at the picture I think it is the second (rear) axle that has broken (and been left behind) which has overloaded and compressed the front axle into the trailer preventing it from rotating.
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As was stated, conventionally only silage is bagged. It will contain similar stuff to hay, just tends to be fermenting a bit, and is indeed animal feed.

I was sort of right then!
I always thought sillage was more "liquid" shall we say, I am obviously wrong on that one.
 

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Just to clarify this for you, it could be silage or haylage, or even straw. Looking at how the telehandler and tractor are lifting the 2 bales I would think its haylage. The trailer would be carrying in the region of 8/9 tons of bales. Looking at the picture, I would estimate the trailer is good for around 15t of weight.

With regard to the insecure load, I would agree as it is in the picture, but we don't know if a rope has already been taken off before the picture was taken. We never move them when 'doubled' up like that, with out strapping them on. If it was just one row down the middle on the top layer, then we don't strap them.

Just for the record, I own a farm and do contract work in the summer moving, wrapping, and stacking around 2000 bales of silage, hay, haylage and straw.
 
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