Incident at Harrow and Wealdstone.

[Saint66]

All lines are blocked in and out of Euston after reports of trespassing at Harrow and Wealdstone.

OHLE has been switched off, and some reports on twitter suggest that someone is on the station roof?
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Reopened! Person has been 'apprehended' according to LM twitter.

 

[455driver]

Oh the poor little darling, being put in danger by that nasty railway line!
I am glad they are okay I would have hated it if they had hurt themselves.

I really couldnt care less about the thousands of people that have been inconvenienced by this very serious incident.







Please let me know if you like the new, caring 455driver!

 

[infobleep]

If the trespasser is someone with mental health issues I hope they get the help they need. I don't care about passengers if they need and get help.

However if it's someone doing a prank then hopefully they will be helpful whilst being charged with trespassing or whatever charge they can bring against them. In there case I do care about the delays. If only network rail could pass on their fines to them.

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[daikilo]

If the trespasser is someone with mental health issues I hope they get the help they need. I don't care about passengers if they need and get help.

However if it's someone doing a prank then hopefully they will be helpful whilst being charged with trespassing or whatever charge they can bring against them. In there case I do care about the delays. If only network rail could pass on their fines to them.

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If it was a prank and/or under the influence of something or someone, then NR probably could make a case against them. However, the cost of fighting and losing the case may well make the individual insolvent. One day it will have to happen, and the delays will continue until it does, at least several times. NR, if it was a prank, play hardball, please, ~no-one will complain, you may even get applause.

 

[The Snap]

Why do we inconvenience so many people for the sake of one selfish trespasser? In Europe and the States, if you go on the railway and end up dead, it's your own stupid fault. In this country, it's somehow everyone else's fault but the actual dead person!

Baffles me.

 

[Lockwood]

"Duty of care"

 

[Tetchytyke]

Why do we inconvenience so many people for the sake of one selfish trespasser?

Because if we don't stop the trains, it generally means that some lucky man sitting in a cab gets to turn them into mincemeat.

I couldn't give a stuff if someone wants to play with electricity and gets 25,000 volts of alternating current pumped through them, or gets the blunt end of a 350 in their face. I could give a stuff about the poor sods who have to scrape them off the track and into a body bag though.

 

[cambsy]

The incident was over quick, I shot through Harrow and Wealdstone at 125mph at 20.28pm 21.05.14,was on the 18.35 Man Pic-Euston 390 046, arrived 3 mins early.

 

[dk1]

...Ready ...Aim ...Fire

 

[wensley]

I couldn't give a stuff if someone wants to play with electricity and gets 25,000 volts of alternating current pumped through them, or gets the blunt end of a 350 in their face. I could give a stuff about the poor sods who have to scrape them off the track and into a body bag though.

Indeed!

 

[DXMachina]

Why do we inconvenience so many people for the sake of one selfish trespasser?

Donoghue v Stevenson 1932
And the rights everyone accrued in that case outweigh the nuisances

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Donoghue v Stevenson 1932
And the rights everyone accrued in that case outweigh the nuisances

Well quoted - the case of a snail in a bottle of ginger beer.

Sorry - someone goes on a roof near 25kV means job stopped till he / she comes down. Pain in the ass - dealt with a few over the years - and very frustrating indeed but you have to be wary of the individual and the effect thereof. Rather this frankly - than another incident on the tracks where a life was lost.

 

[jon0844]

If it was a prank and/or under the influence of something or someone, then NR probably could make a case against them. However, the cost of fighting and losing the case may well make the individual insolvent. One day it will have to happen, and the delays will continue until it does, at least several times. NR, if it was a prank, play hardball, please, ~no-one will complain, you may even get applause.

While the press love to bash the railway, I suspect if Network Rail took someone to court (or is that to the cleaners) we'd soon have the same press certain politicians, certain groups and charities, lambasting the organisation for destroying the future of the 'normally model' citizen that was only having a bit of fun and has now learned his/her lesson so need to hurt them anymore.

I couldn't give a stuff if someone wants to play with electricity and gets 25,000 volts of alternating current pumped through them, or gets the blunt end of a 350 in their face. I could give a stuff about the poor sods who have to scrape them off the track and into a body bag though.

In the old days, we'd have probably left their bodies to rot as a signal to others. Somehow, I doubt this idea would get very far if suggested today.