Scottish Driver survives in astonishing escape
43129 crash exterior (ScotRail) © ScotRail / RAIB
A late Christmas present for a Scottish train driver – although he may have thought otherwise at the time. On 27 December last year, a train hit a tree trunk, travelling at express speed (the train, not the tree). Quick thinking and steely nerves saved both the driver and his train in what could have been a catastrophic accident. Tree collision? Appropriately enough the Rail Accident Investigation Branch is looking into the matter.
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When proving high quality, when service rendered is worth paying, then as at all other sustainable modes, financing of railways will be a simple technicality.
Accordingly, all elderly standards, roots of disturbing, has to be outed!
Resiliency and redundancy, safety now, regrettably missing, has to be provided for, at railways, the most vulnerable of all modes! Quality first, then quantity!
Single overhead supply, power by wires, optimal when steam was outed, now longer is optimal, etc., etc.