According to Greenpeace, the engine itself was unbolted so that it would "roll over" the container.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Yeh the driver was removed as well to make it lighter as well:roll:
Bet they didnt remove all the asbestos from the loco and mk1s before they spread it all over the countryside
In todays climate they would have had a 30,000 feet air exclusion as well as the VIPS and press being in the next County
Unfortunately, i missed it all as we were away in France at the time
I know the line well though, in the early 80s before the crash it was supposedly out of use and the boss asked me to run a french drain down the field into the cess on the side of the old line at Hickling
Imagine the shock as this class 31 on bogie test turned up and stopped
Whos in charge here says the driver, er him says this spotty youth driving the JCB digger as I pointed to the boss heading sheepishly back to the landy
" get orf my railway"
Not before the driver had given me a run down on the cab controls of the 31 though
Told you it was still working says me to the boss later over a very quiet lunch break :roll: