FIRES ON TRAINS ARE RARE.. OR ARE THEY? 

I swear 90% of these clips were taken on the 3rd rail network.

Extremely rare. I've been travelling on trains for 40 years and I've never seen a fire on a train, and I don't know anyone who has. Clearly it does happen, but extremely rarely.

The driver in the last video did everything wrong, first of all he should have checked his train for the reason for the alarm being pulled, secondly he should have started his call to the signaller with 'this is an emergency call' this prioritises the call over any other call.

8:10 Very bad idea to self evacuate. They should have just remained on board and informed the driver via the emergency alarm.

A lot of these are electrical arcs, which are caused by bad contact with the powered rails.

Most of these incidents are isolated and compared to how many passengers travel, these are rare.

And the modern idea seems to be to have trains with no doors between the carriages, so if the fire enters a carriage, the smoke will speard throughout the length.

At 13:00 once I heard the passcom alarm. I would take the call as initially trained to do so. If I got no response. I would as a precaution stop the train and check to see if there is any smoke and upon seeing the smoke. I would call the signaller with the following line "Emergency Call from Train 2D36 (or whatever its number was) at location with the signal number (example: at signal location AE55 or Alpha Echo Five Five), quote milepost number is available and followed by a request of a block of both tracks and shut down of the train supply of the third rail with a call for medical and fire services as my train is on fire and I can see thick smoke from the rear part of the train". Then I would as soon as I was informed that the block and the supply rail shutdown was implemented. I would release the doors on the cess side of the track where it is safer to evacuate the passengers and help anyone get down from the train if I could safely do so. Its best to sit on the floor of the vestibule and jump down as its the safest way with less likely of an injury. I would make sure that all passengers were walking on the lineside and not in the cess or anywhere near the other line because although the power would be off. Diesel trains may be operating in the area that is still a danger to the passengers and could have passed a signal nearby before the block was in place. If I could not stop the train if for example I was in a tunnel or on a viaduct. I would repeatedly say can all passengers on coach 8 please move into the next coach due to a fault. I would use something like this as to not alarm passengers in the other coaches that are not affected. Then as soon as its safe to do so, I would get all passengers off the train as soon as its safe and where there is no further danger.

I dunno what's worse : The fire or the iPhone 3GS?

I know when I was traveling to Middlesborough in 2000 my Dad told me he felt the train was bouncing off the tracks because it was going so fast. Now 23 years on I am thankful to say I can't afford to go on one!

4:47 GET OFF THE BUS 🤣

Classic reason for having a guard on EVERY train.

4:55 I would call the fire brigade, not an ambo!

If brandnew electrostarts are effected, old Networkers and the dualvoltage units then i think its with the aging 3rd rail system

The last clip is from a a rail safety training video and isn't based on an actual event, it's purely fictional, I did the smoke effects for it.

10 words Keep the guard on the train Keep the train safe

0:02 JESS THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T PUT BUTTER IN THE TRAIN WHEELS

4:47 why did he say get off the bus?

Why is it always the networkers blowing up?

Good job calling 999 before you know if they've already been called... It's better to have too many people calling for help than noone calling for help. The bystander effect is strong.

At 12:55 the repeater lights to the left of the driver are showing the daylight headlight and marker lights illuminated, except they are red! Confusing.

Dragging breaks and over heating breaks are the main cause of fires I think

10:00 Even better remain on the train. It is fire resistant for 30 minutes.

0:04 that 465 looked like it had taco bell😅

13:00 Move first then pull the alarm. If the driver cannot be reached then phone the fire brigade. It's unfortunate that many people cannot figure it out. May the innocent boy rest in peace. :(

Kinda funny how quite a lot of the clips are Southeastern, especially the 465's

1. No idea what train it is 2. 465/466 Southeastern 3. Electrostar 4. No clue 5. GreaterAnglia? Class 90 + Mark 3 coaches? 6. No clue 7. No clue 8. 319 Northwestern? 9. More southeastern? 10. More southeastern 465/466 11. Even more southeastern 465/466 12. Even more southeastern 465/466. Same train? 13. Another 465/466. This one seems to be one of the DOO training videos. Edit: Upon closer inspection, #5 seems to be an SWR 44x in the SWT livery. #8 looks more like Southern 313.

Arcing isn't really a hazard on a train and yes incidents like these shown are very rare.

pls tell me there was a south railway in dorchester

3:25 dang

People who tend to get southeastern trains tend to be a bit more melodramatic

Swr wants to do a light show lol

I swear like all of these happen on southeastern

maybe because our trains are old af 😭

This happens before 2017 and 2018 not after

The one at the end did he get hit by the train?

Why 466/465 always

Maybe he should put that the last one is fictional

7:55 I can just tell this guy is british

What was the cause of the southeastern train fire and the South West train and the southern train

I know it is rare situation but what happens if there is a fire on the train and the driver of the train told people to evacuated it as there risk of the train catching a lite and there is person who has mobility issue ie in wheelchair and not able to get off the train, what happens in this when this occurs?

south

2:30 Was there really a bomb present?

14:00 I dispute that! Why didn't he put a block on all lines as soon as a fire was reported? That would be correct procedure!

This is making me not like 365s which run where I live.

8:30 True, trains are fire resistant for 30 minutes. I would just pull the alarm and if the train crew couldn't be reached then I would phone the fire brigade to report it.

good example of why you should never go near train tracks the electrial power these use is imense it would disitegrate a person

I hear Inspector Sands

wow, thank god I got the old diesel trains xD. this has to be another example of poor maintennance and safety practices that are becoming more common on the railways

11:22 l saw that

the cause was by the shoe gear being ripped off

Add reindeer fire train Station

He thought it was nothing and thought he'd film it... what is wrong with these people?!

Don’t blame the driver for running over the kid, it’s his fault, he should of waited, feel bad for the parents

The last one I would of got out before any of them I would smash a window

3:08 That looks scarier than the movie the shining

3:10

why 465/466...

5:25 what language is he speaking?

6:25 I would not fight the fire but instead leave the driver to do it. The fact that the fire is contained in a bin makes it a bad idea, I might end up wasting the extinguisher in order to fight it.

wow we got some hot trains in the uk lol like what hardly any clips of anywhere else but the uk.

Looks like the class 465 has caught fire multiple times

MML electrification? No thank you!

Avoid these units plz

OOf.

Oh, J**** of god!!!!

*S H O O K*