And it could shorten your life if you did what that guy did by going in front of a speeding train (that guy made the worst mistake of his life (Ignoramus (referring to man who got mangled by train) )
@@TheDankEngineer may i have your attention please on platform 10. We are sorry to announce that the 09:39 service to London Euston has been cancelled. This is due to a trackside worker being fired *permanently*
5:57 I think someone flushed a toilet as that HST passed! I used to be a trackman and dodging passing trains was bad enough. Being sprayed on the other hand...
You guys don't know it but the first time I saw this video was when I worked for London Underground, it is part of their safety training (when training people how to walk on the track) and may still be. There is nothing funny people are often killed or injured for the simplest of mistakes - e.g. ignoring procedures.
Totally, I don't work on a railway but I watch these safety videos as I'm interested in what goes on behind the scenes and it also applies to non railway people in that they should never be on or near the track under no circumstance
Mangled, covered in blood and a severed leg... Just like an incident here in Canada I saw on the news where a man was struck by a freight train, lost both his legs and one arm but he survived...
That first sequence looks like the top of Ham Street bank on the Hastings/Ashford line, expect l drove that old DEMU a few times. In those days the top of Ham Street bank was the middle of nowhere !
If only they did a video to warn people from trespassing on the railway lines that would significantly reduce the number of “one unders “ or suicides that we have to deal with each year it is not a good thing I have seen and dealt with 3 this year already
I knew a young.man in Devon who had just qualified to become a barrister.He was 25 years old. Alcohol was to.blame.as he took a short cut across a railway line and was killed instantly by a train.His short cut saved approx ten minutes of his journey which ended in tragedy.RIP Ben. NEVER EVEN THINK ABOUT APPROACHING A TRAIN LINE.Ben would be approaching 45 now if he.was still.alive.Do not make the same.mistake.
...funny enough, something just came to me about the intro 0:54 ("Nobody (...) would walk about on a motorway") - I would think that motorway workers would have something to say about that line and the implication that railways are more dangerous than motorways(!) [Whether that's rightly or wrongly, feel free to debate, but just as trains can't swerve _out_ of your way, they're pretty unlikely to swerve _into_ your way too... well, unless you're unlucky enough to have one derail near your position, and in your direction!]
Don't copy the boy who avoided one train, but lost his life in the path of another. Be safe, not sorry. The railway line is not, I repeat NOT, a playground. DON'T END UP DEAD!
first person ever killed by a train was huchkinson on the manchester to liverpool line ,which was the first major line that was built not far from ware i am
Saw a video once of an indian walking along the top of a train with overheads. He put his arm up to use the cable as a guide and then immediately caught fire and fell down dead burning in flames on top of the train roof.
That is correct, the MNR have ridiculous criteria to volunteer there though. For example a conviction for a minor offence could be used to exclude someone from volunteering there.
Which sort of overhead lines? The ones over train tracks, domestic supply, or industrial supply. Here in Aus we have all three in certain places (not on the same service though, the rail is kept seperate so it can just run the network). When it comes to train overheads, the pantograph provides the energy path to the motor/batteries but it is mounted on four insulators. There are some other slightly complicated processes in place involved that don’t really need to be explained right now even if it is potentially fascinating. The carriage and the _closed/Retracted_ pantograph is at the highest point (shortest distance between train and powerlines) you can get before arcing occurs. That being said, those lines generally transmit around 25kV (25000 Volts) and are prone to arcing. Electricity , like water, will always chose the path of least resistance, which in most scenarios is you, especially if you’re standing up. That amount of energy would use you as the conductor and ground to the train carriage/engine you were standing upon. You wouldn’t stand a chance. That is why there is the 9ft rule and why a lot of Aussie schools in the 90’s/early 2000’s had safety campaigns about not climbing onto the roofs of trains along with their general rail safety messages like don’t walk on the tracks. And also why there’s been a spate of deaths in India after they went electric.
Yes and no - the underground middle line is normally at -220V, but is connected to ground where it shares track with overground trains (Watford-Euston).
Let me tell you something ok when I'm not at the comment or the video I just saw above there's a quote and you said this I find this video very funny a railway enthusiast myself I condone that comment in layman's term I'm not happy at all if I were you you better get back to that person who made that comment and readdress it because if you do not I will form a complaint to that idiot who made a stupid and pathetic low life comment no do it now
@@pauljordan4452 worked with a bloke once . who in his previous job worked for a funreal director who had the contract with the rail way authority br/network rail to go and collect people who had been hit by trains in the north west, told me few stories a bout that
