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Another result ( nearly!)
3rdforum-
Posts : 22953
Join date : 2011-08-30
Age : 54
Location : Ireland
Adam Mint-
Posts : 23101
Join date : 2011-10-07
Age : 59
Wasn't even intending to slow down and have a look, brain dead if not compleatlt dead...
Oh, and if he'd been killed it would have been the railway companies fault for not having a double gated maned crossing...
Oh, and if he'd been killed it would have been the railway companies fault for not having a double gated maned crossing...
Campbell Brodie-
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Join date : 2011-08-13
Age : 69
Location : Scotland
Not nice, but he made a rod for his own back I'm afraid. The train driver must have seen him, he's bound to be traumatised. 
Adam Mint-
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Join date : 2011-10-07
Age : 59
Don't know what the visions like in a modern train like that, but had the opertunity sit in the drivers seat of a Deltic some years back, one of the things things that stuck in my mind was the lack of vision, looking straight ahead it must have been quarter of a mile or more ahead of you before you could see the track, suppose the theory being all the driver needed to see was the signals which were more or less at eye level...
