Train derailment - at least one dead :(

i'm so never catching the train again. stuff like this scares the crap out of me.

Very sad. I've always felt safe on the trains, never had any serious problems before.
How do you leave a car on the track?

AHBCs are 70's technology... 50's would mean a little hut with a guy in it. And probably a row of cottages with 2 more guys in to do the other shifts.

And with railway signalling systems, if anything breaks, the signal won't give the all clear to the driver. Why was this car on the crossing in the first place? Silly people.

Thats stupid, did you also never fly again after 9/11?

Again, you're assuming the car was dumped...

not for at least a year.

i mean whether or not its reasonable when tragic accidents like this happen it really does knock your confidence in the whole system. i felt the same after paddington, and this is 3 years later after all the 'improvements' have been brought in.

But how many accidents happen really?

too many

Really? I dont think so. Paddington and Selby are the 2 train crashes I can recall in the past 5 years.

True but how would a car get on the track when theres a high speed train coming? (I assume that around there it would be going quite fast)

i think that one is too many.

You could breakdown and the barriers come down around you, could you not? What do you do? Leave your car there and cop a Selby stylee criminal conviction for not doing enough to warn people/driving an unroadworthy car, or die trying until the last second to move it?

Or there are reports of it being a stolen car, with joy riders actually driving it up a track.

potters bar and ladbroke grove although im not sure if these were within 5 years.

Ladbroke Grove was 1999 - October 5th, I remember it well. Very well - I got off the train at Didcot Parkway.

Potters bar was a few years later.

True. I thought they had installed phones at the barriers now in case of problems?

The crossings in the area are notorious - there's also a lot of juvenille crime in the area, it's not unheard of for emergency phones to be vandalised.