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Lightwater



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Runaway 268 wagon train 200kph

A runaway train laden with iron ore has been deliberately derailed by BHP after it travelled for more than 90 kilometres without a driver in WA's remote Pilbara region was travelling at more than 200kph. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-05/...d/10467616 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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Does anyone recall this demonstration back in 1984? Some people at the time said that even more damage to the train would have occurred if a British Rail sandwich had been placed on the track. Very Happy

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Yes, it was called "Operation Smash Hit" and I remember it well as I was there. I can confirm that the sandwiches Greenpeace referred to were not standard British Rail issue as they were fresh and edible. I can also confirm that the Greenpeace allegations were a load of old cobblers.

I wonder if Mr H&S would allow us to do somethig like that now.

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About 28,000 tonnes of ore, wagons & 4 locomotives piled up:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-06/...e/10469802

We went along the road here to Karijini NP a few months ago. Actually slept overnight in a gravel pit. While we were sleeping a 98 wheel road train took a break for a few hours. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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I remember a train trip through the glacier national park top right of USA, looking down from train windows you could see a huge grain train that had derailed and fallen way down the hill/mountain side.

Apparently the park was closed as the bears where eating grain which fermented inside them, leading to drunkness and bears with a sore head, quite a dangerous thing.

googled it and maybe I was told porkies about the drunkenness but still mostly true and not uncommon
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