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Don't try this at your local station
« on: 23 January 2014, 00:36:12 »
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #1 on: 23 January 2014, 01:06:19 »
And todays Darwin Award goes to... ::)
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #2 on: 23 January 2014, 08:39:39 »
to be fair if you look at the picture of the tracks they don't look electric.
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #3 on: 23 January 2014, 09:19:46 »
Thats because the Daily Fail have, as is the norm, miss reported and printed a picture of a standard track panel and not one with third rail electrification (Scalextric country).

To add insult to injury, thats not a piece of mainline track either because its flat bottom rail on wooden sleepers!

So probably a siding somewhere or a preserved line!
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« Reply #4 on: 23 January 2014, 09:59:05 »
Did someone mention the F word?  :-X
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #5 on: 23 January 2014, 10:13:05 »
Hard to believe, but a tragic way for a young life to end.
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #6 on: 23 January 2014, 10:16:16 »
He obviously never thought to himself 'I wonder why these English people don't walk on the tracks like we do in Pakistan'   :-\

A tragic end to a young life.  :(
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #7 on: 23 January 2014, 10:48:45 »
A more appropriate photo would have been:



Still 750 VDC through his lug hole will have resulted in a mercifuly quick death
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« Reply #8 on: 23 January 2014, 11:04:14 »
Very sad  :'( :'(

It proves again how we as humans can be ignorant when in an unknown situation, and a little knowledge can be dangerous.

In regards to that track picture that Mark has correctly commented on, thank God that it not main line running lines! :D
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Re: Don't try this at your local station
« Reply #9 on: 23 January 2014, 11:12:54 »
Our local line to Manchester used to be a third rail system ...... it worked very well from 1879 1916 until it became part of the Metro  ;)
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