Train derailment for the train buffs

Thankfully it wasnt a main line and nobody got hurt.

i suppose the level of some of the comments this has been attracting are down to the fact that it’s now featured on the Huffington Post UK under ‘Comedy’ with predictable facetious remarks.

So was the reason that there? was an interlocking fault, then, and he was authorised to pass the signal at danger?

🙂

How do you fix that then? A big crane?

Well I doubt they’ve going to have Hollywood movie moguls on the blower looking for film rights.

The train does nowt for the first 40s of that vid, I WANT ACTION!

Big crane or a load of wedges to lift the train back to rail level and a big tug from another engine to pull it back onto the rails

That was pretty exceedingly dull I was expecting something much more than a train sitting still for best part of a minute before bumping off the track.

Hmmm, the unused points should have been locked I guess.

This one’s quite impressive in a D’oh! kind of way.

There that’s better.

blimey, that’s all a bit frantic.

Yep, much better Drac

That first one was more of a Flounce than anything else!

No visible wild gesticulation or alarm in the signal box…

wwaswas – Member

This one’s quite impressive in a D’oh! kind of way.

Quick! Send more trains!

The Quorn derailment was at the catch points – their whole purpose it to derail an out of control train and prevent it getting onto the main line. Someone didn’t have them set correctly!!

Nothing to do with setting the points correctly.
The driver of the kettle was given authorisation to pass a signal at danger by the signalman (hence the long whistle before moving off), but failed to check that the road (points) was set correctly.
It wasn’t, thus wheels in the dirt.

and you could see that the catch points were set…

or is that why they were videoing it?

This one quite impressed me.

another train crash

Whats the explosion betweeen the first coach and the rear of the loco at about 45 seconds, then the impact.

Well, at least it proves the trap points work.

Trap points are positioned where lines joins a main running line to divert runaway trains.

Could the puffer nutters not have just reversed that train back on to the rails?

@ project – looks to me like something on a post to the side of the track, high speed film or some such?

Looks like a flash gun from the side rather than explosion to me.

Lady Gresley – Member
Could the puffer nutters not have just reversed that train back on to the rails?

Lady Gresley great grand daughter of the fameous Sir Nigel Greley, i presume .

As for the simpistic method of reversing a loco back onto the rails, there is firstly no way of steerring a loco, locos steer by following the rails and the flanges stop the loco and coaches derailing, then there needs to be a metal to metal interface, so the wheels can actually grip the rails due to the weight of the loco,if the rails are slippy, sand or small stones are usually put on the rails to increase grip.

A few years back I was in a class37 and we derailed the front bogie, the rails spread underneath us, managed to reverse back on, made a mess though, broke a few chairs and chewed the edge off the rail! Had to regauge the track and hold it together with tie bars in order to get out, not bad for a 105 ton loco!