This weekends rail crash has brought a bit of sobriety back to this blog and I do appreciate that there are people in mourning over lost ones.
At times like this I have contemplated what would happen if the trains that I commute in derailed. There have been a couple of spots in recent years where the track has been so poorly maintained that passenger have been thrown about the carriage. One was at Forest Hill on the fast up line and the second and much more serious one was between New Cross and London Bridge right opposite the reclamation heat plant. Both were around for several months it really did feel like the carriage was about to derail. The consequences on such a packed train would be horrendous. After the Clapham Junction rail crash I understood that the inquest advised that overcrowding must stop.
On the other hand though I am wondering if anyone has talked to Peugeot about the car on the Ufton Nervat level crossing... Lets hope it wasn’t a new car ad shoot that had gone horribly wrong.