Worlds busiest Railway

[MX51ROD]

If you think UK railways are crowded and busy , think again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02xxsb5/worl...

Edited by MX51ROD on Friday 28th August 21:04

[greygoose]

Interesting series of programmes, the number of people wandering around on the tracks was surprising, the number of deaths as a result perhaps less so!

[KTF]

It was interesting but got a bit repetitive (I guess so people who watched from day 2 could catch up).

Maybe focusing on one aspect per day rather than mixing between them each day would have been better but it was interesting to see behind the scenes nonetheless.

When they were in the workshops it was clear that the never before used hard hats had been hurriedly handed out

The whole people working next to the running trains was odd as the same thing happens here so not really an issue.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I thought St Pancras station was a pretty impressive building but that CST place is lie a sultans palace. Just goes to show how much money the Brits has sloshing around in the days of empire. So much we didn't know what to do with it.

[MX51ROD]

KTF said:

It was interesting but got a bit repetitive


The whole people working next to the running trains was odd as the same thing happens here so not really an issue.

just a total lack of PPE ( Hi Vis etc )

[KTF]

MX51ROD said:

just a total lack of PPE ( Hi Vis etc )

They managed to find some for the presenter when she turned up so I imagine it exists somewhere, they just don't use it.

[DaveGoddard]

KTF said:

They managed to find some for the presenter when she turned up so I imagine it exists somewhere, they just don't use it.

Probably because they have common sense and no lawyers chasing their every move, so they just get the hell on with it.

[Beati Dogu]

More likely it's just eastern fatalism i.e. if your numbers up, your numbers up and there's nothing you can do anyway. It's why they drive like complete maniacs. That plus with 1.2 billion people, individual lives have less value.

[Morningside]

I thought it was a very interesting series of programmes plus India is one of the few places on earth I would love to visit.