What a nob!

Responsible behaviour in its purest form.

http://eratest.free.fr/ogrish/train2.avi

 

3.2Mb for those interested.

Can't tell you what it is tho, cos it uses a codec not installed on this
machine....

 

DivX avi I think!

 

Gavsta wrote:

<shakes head>

I meant I couldn't comment on the content of the clip, because I can't
play it.

 

Gavsta wrote in

shame there wasn't another coming from the other direction

 

Yeh I know, but I think its a DivX AVI file.

 

Kid playing "chicken" with a TGV.

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Wow. That was a bit close. I'd like a view from a camera in the train,
including one focussed on the driver's face.

 

I bet he absoluty SHIT himeself.

It looks like the thing did actually clip the lad ever so slightly!

 

ta.

oh, and not phobic, just not on my PC, so don't want to install stuff...

 

For those with Pikey-band, or codec-phobia here's a summary:

http://www.hextent.co.uk/Train/

The Darwin effect misfired on this one, hopefully it will get him on the
next attempt. Bloody close call wasn't it?

 

Make of it what you will:

http://www.hextent.co.uk/Train/2.jpg

Closer than a close thing.

 

If eet was a Train a Big Speed it would have splatted le little sod.

It was a SNCF Fret train - freight train dans la langue English.

I am a little surprised that the draught from the train didn't pull him
underneath.

 

Can't connect to the Quicktime servers to get the necessary update.

 

Irfanview plays it with no probs

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Paul Corfield wrote

<Rastus>

C'mon train

</r>

 

Imust be doing something wrong, worked on mine

 

I've surprised myself on two occasions with my utter indifference, I'm
not sure if I've mentioned this before [1], but..

Approaching Thatcham station (in Berkshire) on the up with a large
freight train (5250+ tonnes IIRC) on the opposite line there's a DMU
(small passenger train), just leaving. I wave to the other driver, all
is well...

Then I see a passenger who decided the footbridge is too much effort and
tried to cross the lines by walking behind the departing passenger train.

He sees me bearing down on him at about 55mph, panics and runs down the
track between my rails.

Last I see of him is him disappearing out of my view below the windscreen
trying to get back on the platform. Looking back I see him lying on the
up platform.

At no time had I shut the power handle, as I said utter indifference, I
sounded the horn but that was it. All I can really recall was his Tesco
carrier bag as he ran, terrified, down the track.

Another driver in the cab who'd cadged a lift to Acton just said, about
10 minutes later, "that was a bit close".

The other time (Yapton AHB, Sussex) with someone playing chicken and it
became quite apparent they meant to go the whole way a small voice said
to me "you might want to think about putting the brakes on...". It was
the large voice shouting "**** HIM" that was interesting. Anyway, he
moved.

A slightly different view.
The joy, on a freight branch (Frome), of /sneaking/ up on some children
building a castle out of ballast in the four foot (between the rails).

The thing is I sneaked up on them with a 3000hp Class 56 freight engine,
which are neither small or quiet and I had a couple of thousand tonnes of
stone on as well.

Sounded the horn about 6 foot away from them. I honestly believe they
actually soiled themselves.


[1] I'm going to do it again if I have.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Oldbloke"

Good wee proggy, innit? The slow playback is excellent and quite clearly
shows the nobber's ankle being clipped by the edge of the front plate.

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Dave

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Ooh, was that one of the "made in Romania" ones?