Incident Croydon tram
Discussion
P5BNij said:
legzr1 said:
P5BNij said:
Between shifts we have to manage our eating and sleeping patterns as best we can, which all goes towards better concentration. On the freight side we often sit around for several hours then have to do three or four hours driving which takes some getting used to. That's down to the nature of the job, having to wait around while your train is being loaded or unloaded. To aid concentration we're now told to use 'risk based commentary' which pretty much boils down to talking out loud describing the route as you're driving along. I've tried it a few times and it does work. The job I'm on later today involves driving a van forty miles to pick up my train, four hours or so driving the train to the engineering site fifty miles away (it's the 3,000 ton High Output Ballast Cleaner), three or four more hours moving the train within the work site including my personal needs break, get relieved by another driver then driving another van forty miles back to my home depot.
FLHH?Laurel Green said:
The person taking the video (in April) was so concerned that they reported it to First Group straight away.Oh, silly me, they sat on it, then went to the sun after the Croydon incident so they could get paid, then the sun made a big story out of it then they told First Group.
Stedman said:
Good luck, I hope your depot is doing ok.
News on the grapevine is that quite a few redundant men have received letters begging them to go back - in some cases just a few short months after leaving.Still, with all the upheaval at DBC I'm not sure there's enough TOC vacancies to take up the slack
legzr1 said:
Stedman said:
Good luck, I hope your depot is doing ok.
News on the grapevine is that quite a few redundant men have received letters begging them to go back - in some cases just a few short months after leaving.Still, with all the upheaval at DBC I'm not sure there's enough TOC vacancies to take up the slack
With apologies for veering off topic.
legzr1 said:
News on the grapevine is that quite a few redundant men have received letters begging them to go back - in some cases just a few short months after leaving.
Still, with all the upheaval at DBC I'm not sure there's enough TOC vacancies to take up the slack
I know a former FLHH dvr that has received said letter. Still, with all the upheaval at DBC I'm not sure there's enough TOC vacancies to take up the slack
KTF said:
Laurel Green said:
The person taking the video (in April) was so concerned that they reported it to First Group straight away.Oh, silly me, they sat on it, then went to the sun after the Croydon incident so they could get paid, then the sun made a big story out of it then they told First Group.
Biker 1 said:
I shudder to think what the traumatic injuries were. Emergency service rescue people must be hard as nails - I hope they get proper counselling after an event like this....
RIP
My FIL is a paramedic and is almost emotionally disconnected after a bad shift. He's hard as nails physically as well as mentally. An incredibly intellectual man who's qualifications out rank most in the medical community (the type with more letters after your name than it would take to spell it). I'm led to believe he's usually the highest qualified / smartest person in the room even though he's just a paramedic. Usually correcting peoples medical knowledge and diagnosing symptoms off the top of his head that are usually 98% correct. He chose to be a paramedic because of the job, didn't want to be in an office. He spends his off days doing landscape gardening for select clients and working on his house. I say this because it's important to know that he is all there, still human and still an individual.RIP
He talks about the good times, like giving birth to babies, helping people who are having medical difficulties and the extremely fast blue light runs he gets to do. But quite often he'll have a bad call where a child dies or there's a car crash and there's nothing he can do. When this happens, he phones his wife, tells her he loves her and gets back to work. Usually spending the next day very depressed.
When he's been off shift for a while, he refers to ambulance work as 'scraping bodies off the floor' and cheerfully goes off to his station. I think it's a high stress emotional rollercoaster. I have no idea how he does it.
Catweazle said:
As suspected earlier by the time the driver sees the solitary 20kph sign, braking will be too lateRAIB said:
The point at which the curve can be sighted and the sign becomes readable in clear conditions is therefore about 90 - 120 metres beyond the point at which a full service brake application must start in order to reduce speed from 80 km/h to 20 km/h (full service brake deceleration is around half emergency brake deceleration
Theyre also looking at the way the windows failed and allowed passengers out the train saaby93 said:
Theyre also looking at the way the windows failed and allowed passengers out the train
Think the question is not it allowed passengers out, but the glass shattering it self caused some injuries.http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/tram-investigat...
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