The Croydon Tram Crash Disaster 2016 | Plainly Difficult Documentary 

Next up, a bottle rocket haha

@@spinalobifida Explosions hopefully soon!

Blindfolded monkey pins the tail on the donkey "here on map"

There should be a Plainly Difficult for the map board.

The printer is still my favorite. 🤣👌

Blimey, I can imagine that was tough! It was a big thing at my work at the time, we had to study the RAIB report

Certainly of the more gruesome things I’ve seen. Great video though!

Sure and was Santa

@@maybev1nce troll go home

@@marvindebot3264 how am I a troll?

Skill issue

good onya Haylee. your personality obviously meant a lot to them both.

Absolutely, any system that relies on people not making mistakes, being distracted, tired or whatever natural human thing has failed and cannot be described as safe

Very lucky!

There are so many stories like this from almost every disaster. I’m glad to hear that your friends were late. Lady Luck is a crazy. Sometimes what seems like a misfortune is a blessing.

I was given a day off school because of it

Underrated comment 😄👌

There are 2 seasons here: summer and a very long autumn.

People of other nations often say “why are you Brits so obsessed by the weather?”. Our usual reply is “Live here for a month or two, you’ll soon understand”. All four seasons in one day!

​@@ShaunieDale I love it especially when it's a beautiful, sunny day and it suddenly gets dark. After 3 seconds a giant amount of water falls from the sky, it stops and then the sunny day continues as if nothing had happened.

@@ShaunieDale as an Arizonan (US): I envy you. I come from CA, USA, and... Man. I miss the 50°F-80°F (can't remember temperature conversions-Apologies) weather and the rain and fog... Aurgh. Where I am now... It's 98°F-118°F for about 6 months of the year and monsoons that should be snowstorms at around 40°F but still stay liquid. Give. Me. Your. Weather. Please.

and as a side note, as a Who fan, this finally tells me where Sarah Jane Smith was (or wasn't) when the Fourth Doctor dropped her off home for the last time in South Croydon!

this is weirdly common even on roads. the amount of poorly signposting 30-60 changes i lived near is shocking

@@Adam-wh1tithat’s usually a revenue thing though, they do that so they catch more people speeding

On mainline railways they also learnt this the hard way and created Morpeth boards named after the infamous Morpeth curve where there have been numerous derailments

Thank you!

Wrong the humour is unessasary and misplaced , and also tactless

@@boomerhgt I doubt you are British

@@boomerhgt Oh, get over yourself.

@@boomerhgt the humor is well needed for some of these topics, lighten up Francis

You and your community have certainly had enough tragedy and loss to deal with, I hope things will be peaceful and safe there for a long time to come.

Colorado does seem to have a little more than it's fair share of headline makers, at least as an outsider looking in. Perhaps because it lies at the far eastern end of "the West" with a few pretty good size population centers before the less populous expanses of the "mid-west", and it has places like Vail & Aspen that draws monied visitors. As a Washingtonian, at the far edge of the contiguous US (right below BC, the similarly far edge of Canada), I feel we show up surprisingly often (for our population size) in stories, too. Not necessarily as the story origin point, but often somewhere along the way (see Ted Bundy, Kenneth Bianchi, Charles Manson, Amazon, Microsoft, & Hanford just to name a quick but recognizable few).

As a resident of Colorado Springs whose sister lives in Aurora, our state has seen some shit.

This section of track is surely in violation of the Positive Train Control Mandatory across the country now. Either that, or the trainsets have not yet been retrofitted. Either way, it is in violation of the rules.

@@unconventionalideas5683 I don't think it's subject to the PTC rules. The trains are definitely not FRA compliant.

Very scary isnt it!

@@PlainlyDifficult Very much so. Stranger still, I moved from Gravel Hill address against my will. It was a long story involving my brother in law, his greedy manager, and a drilled out door lock. Had to scram almost overnight. Fate works in mysterious ways 😂

Thank you

my grandfather's brother, Theodore Allmendinger, was a Pittsburgh based artist of some renown back in the 40's - 60's.

Thanks for the suggestion ill have a look!

He should be punished

Thank you! Year morpeth is the big one hence the warning boards

Sutton Coldfield tends to get forgotten about but it was hugely significant. It was the reason why trackside speed limit signs were introduced nationally. Previously drivers were just expected to know a route. It could be a good topic for a video.

@@garthcox4 cheers. Didn’t know that about S C. Stencils become mandatory. Got the blue accident report. Must reread

I felt that, but with the West fertilizer plant explosion down here in Texas, like, 40 miles away from me. I was small, but that is really what made me realize that things like that can happen anywhere, not just on the opposite side of the country

What happend to your friends dad?

Geeeze. Just grow a pair . You sound like you are canadian

If not quite overcome, you'll at least be the most UNSURPRISED passenger when things go wrong. I mean that in head shaking solidarity with you.

*finally travels to Europe* *gets killed by Putin using a nuke*.

Yes I find them comforting, it shows how rare disasters are, and how after many of them, a lot of effort has been made to try to decrease the risk.

Thank you very much!

I can imagine!

I can understand those frustrations, but even just driving as one of two people in my car, sneezes or momentary blindness from the sun in my eyes always make me feel out of control and scared that the half-second or less of that loss of control could absolutely be the difference between continued smooth driving and totalling my vehicle (and all the possible harm that comes with it).

The woe'z of pubic tramsportation

Thank you

@@PlainlyDifficult Just wanna add that I know you always try to read all comments, and I have been fairly critical at certain moments, just wanna be clear that I do always see and appreciate the effort you put into your videos, sir :)

That’s pretty accurate

@@PlainlyDifficult Do you have a weather rock, perchance?

Plainly difficult Music video “PMV”. If you know you know

Its quite a local event, but shows how at risk uk tram networks can be

@@PlainlyDifficult really does. I was always lead to believe they were so safe they could never possibly have a accident unless it was something on the lines of someone on the tracks. Thanks for the knowledge 😊

& being operated by tramvestites...

When I hear about people diverting further disasters I always default to John's video on the 1917 Halifax Disaster. That railway dispatcher who sent telegrams to keep passenger trains from coming into the area, from his office some 750ft from the ongoing/oncoming disaster who said "Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." gets me hard every time, just thinking of him. What a legend!

@@lux.illuminaughty Having been a Combat Medic in the U.S. Army and a Paramedic/Firefighter after, I understand that there are times when the words "If not now, then when? If not us, then who?" holds true. Nobody tries to be heroic, it's just that they are forced into a situation where someone had to act, and act right now and there were simply the only one around at the time that could do something and they realized it.

@@lux.illuminaughty a similar story is that of volcanologist David A. Johnson who was observing Mount St. Helens and was the first to broadcast of it's main eruption saying, "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!".

@Trent Hauge I believe you, and I get what you mean. But those *still are* incredibly brave/heroic actions, because while some people are thinking "if not me/us, then who?" others have high-tailed it out of there. Or even if no one has run, not everybody keeps so level a head to think to warn others, because they're busy dealing with the catastrophe in the moment. To look around at a disaster currently happening to/around you and have the presence of mind to realize "shit, there are passenger trains inbound that need to NOT come into this" AND manage to do what must be done to keep all those others safe in the seconds before you are obliterated, is mind boggling to someone whose been lucky enough to never be in such a literally time sensitive situation. As a Combat Medic and paramedic/firefighter, you have been in situations like that - where things need to be done NOW and it's not until afterward you have the time to think about it. If you thought about what you were doing at the time you might have second guessed yourself or even frozen up, but the training takes over. The only experience I have that is a little similar comes from dance classes. The routine is practiced over and over until it becomes (at least temporarily) the natural response to hearing that bit of music; move follows move smoothly and gracefully. But if you think about what you're doing you will almost certainly screw up.

@@DethOnHigh The guy I was with for 15 years is related to the guy who got the photographs of Mt. St. Helen's explosion, Gary Rosenquist. His grand or great nephew, I think? Gary is his mom's uncle. Her maiden name was Rosenquist.

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John, your personal connection is clearly clear, thank you for sharing your research and insight. This one really stands out to me.

Glad you like them!

Thank you

Thank you! I need to go up there and ride the metro at some point

wow, was already about to hit your new video after this one, so funny seeing this comment!

Thank you

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@@PlainlyDifficult you're welcome and enjoy your day 😊😊

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I’ve got a video on it coming soon

@@PlainlyDifficult It reminded me of the May 2015 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (my neck of the woods).