Train Rescue - Japanese style!

[ChristopherJ]

Has this been posted before?

A gang of shunters arrive in a diesel loco to couple to a dead EMU with no brakes, the coupling fails and the force of the pull-test means the EMU begins to physically roll away. The shunters begin to try and stop the 8 car unit by hand - with the diesel loco chasing after them up the station. This is railway hilarity at its climax.

It begins at 02:00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylvUa_Dmf8&sns=em
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Despite being uploaded last year, this must surely count as railway video of the year?

 

[ainsworth74]

Was I the only one that got really worried about the safety of the bloke trying to stop it by hand as the locomotive was being waved towards him and the runaway? Had a vision of the driver of the loco misjudging it and bumping the MU whilst that guy was still in between...

 

[Silv1983]

Love it. Millions of pounds worth of train out of control because they don't have any 20p piece of wood to scotch some of the wheels!

 

[Darren R]

Is this a genuine incident, or a clip from the Japanese remake of Oh Mr Porter?

 

[#1 driver]

the force of the pull-test means the EMU begins to physically roll away.

they didn't do a pull test . that was the problem .

 

[starrymarkb]

I love that the guy with the flags...