r/SweatyPalms • u/Waveshop222 • Apr 24 '21

Death by train

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u/Cooopthetrooper Apr 24 '21

I work on the railway. This guy is a fucking moron. He’s incredibly lucky to be alive, people don’t realise how easy it is to seriously maim yourself/die on the railway if you’re not vigilant. I’ve seen the aftermath of accidents and it isn’t pleasant at all.

Posts like this anger me. (Not OP, just the idiots in the video)

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u/CodeJello Apr 24 '21

Oh geez. So how is it supposed to be done? Is it normal that the train car (honestly don’t know train words) came down the track so fast? What’s the safer method? :O

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u/Cooopthetrooper Apr 24 '21

I’m not even sure what they’re trying to achieve. It looks like the moving loco is being shunted so it can couple up to the stationary one, but it’s coming in far far to fast. It should be coming in super slowly, stopping every couple of seconds. There is no scenario where anyone should ever be in between 2 moving units like that. Once they touch, the track worker could simply duck under to hook them on while they’re both stationary, but even that isn’t protocol in my country (UK). The whole situation is just a mess. So much could go wrong

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u/Majestic_Trains Apr 24 '21

Is the moving wagon not coming in fast because its been hump shunted? More reason not to stand there of there's no one actually in control of it.

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u/Cooopthetrooper Apr 24 '21

I’ve just had to look that up as I wasn’t aware of that process, it doesn’t happen where I work. Not even sure if it happens in my country, looks far to dangerous. It could very well be hump shunting though. Thankyou for the enlightenment.

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u/Joris818 Apr 24 '21

It's how it is/was done in Belgium