71 injured in Paris train shunt

[Mushroom]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6528821.stm

Seventy-one people have been lightly injured after a commuter train hit the buffers as it pulled into one of Paris's main railway stations.

 

[Kris]

Should fit TPWS

I think TGV platforms have the wiggly wire system

 

[mbonwick]

Shows ya can't beat good old Britain!

 

[AlexS]

Shows ya can't beat good old Britain!

Certainly. When we had a comparable shunt in 1991 it left 2 people dead and over 200 hundred injured. Think we got the upperhand there?

 

[Tom]

Wasn't that Cannon Street?

 

[Kris]

There was a bad one in 88 that killed 56 people. The driver of the train in the platform stayed in his cab to warn people to get off before being hit by a runaway train.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_de_Lyon_train_accident

Clapham crash the following December - I should have been the guard on the next Bournemouth train behind the one that crashed. Thankfully I took 3 weeks accumulated leave off for Xmas.

 

[mbonwick]

How long have you been on the railways then Kris?

 

[Kris]

20 years this December

A.T.E. (Assistant Ticket Examiner Dec' 87 - June 88 )

Guard (June 88 - Dec 98 ) Oh - so young and slim there 27 years old

Driver (Dec 98 - present)

Next job .......... retire to the Alps