Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
tommy boy, annoying phone plus small window, I will leave the maths to you!
Gully said:tommy boy, annoying phone plus small window, I will leave the maths to you!
Virgo's Haircut said:Well, you don't work on trains day in day out, so therefore don't get abused like guards and platform staff etc.
If I was a driver and said to you put me on platform f***ing 3 at Brighton, would you do it? Or would you be slightly offended?
I do not like being sworn at, and I don't care if they are a passenger or not. Nobody swares at me, and then thinks I'm going to do them a favour.
I told him not to go on the track, so WHAT MORE could I do?
British Bulldog said:
In the signalling centre i'm working at, you know the one it goes from Brighton to Norwood jn & Selhurst, we've had a great number of calls this year from driver's requesting police assistance for conductors being assualted! I wonder why?
Lammy said:If it's pissing it with rain then he's hardly likely to wait for someone (we all know how long the trains take to arrive) to come to his aid.
As soon as the train has gone he'll be on the track to get his phone anyway.
Stop being such a nanny!
Marty McFly said:Or if someone's hat was sucked off by a train...what would be the procedure for that?
Not that its happened
British Bulldog said:Exactly what I was saying! But once a kid is on the track then you think the trains are going to run normal speed? NO. Then people moan about they're train being delayed.
Lammy said:Eh?
No matter what he said he will go on the track. He will be on and off the track in about 10 seconds.
A train will not be delayed.
Gully said:In all seriousness, safety has to be of prime concern on the railway, even the most heartless driver would lose sleep if he wiped out some stupid chav who was trying to retrieve his mobile phone.
British Bulldog said:I appologise for my bit if ranting tonight but I did find VH's comment's a bit out of order. I know the railway is there to be knocked and there's many reasons why they should be. But I have to call into question irresponsibility from a member of rail staff who should have been trained better.
tommy boy said:hope so
"get rich or die tryin'"
prick
Virgo's Haircut said:How dare you accuse me of not being trained properly. You don't know me. You don't know the full facts. My first post about this was meant to be light hearted, you know, to make people smile. I now get accused of not doing my job properly.
Bakesy said:I had GOSBTS blasting out of mine when we stopped at East Croydon on Saturday......Is that acceptable?
Virgo's Haircut said:As a railway employee i found it rather amusing the other day when a chavvy spotty oik dropped his mobile phone the other day, whilst it was playing some kind of music, between the platform and the train at Lancing.
The oik wanted me to go and get the phone, to which I politely told him, to f*** off. And if he even thought about going on to the track, the Lancing signal box would be calling the police, as there would be a trespasser on the line. At this point he started to cry. So I closed the train doors, and f***ed off.
Did I mention it was raining rather steadily, and phone was getting wet?
British Bulldog said:Fair point. On reflection I can see my comment was out of order so for that I appologise.
However I will never appologise to anybody for having a sense of humour bypass when it comes to even the remotest possibility of a member public going on the railway line. Incidents of this nature happen far too frequently and they don't allways have a happy ending.
Believe me there's not a lot worse than taking an emergency call from a driver when he/she thinks they may have struck a person, Especially when the person involved is a child/youth. Suicides are bad enough, But accidental deaths are a lot worse.
Only last week we dealt with an incident that looked like it had resulted in the death of a youth on the line. Thankfully the youth involved had'nt died, He was just laying down next to the live rail trying to hide.
Virgo's Haircut said:I appreciate it must be hard when a driver calls you saying he hit someone. But in the heat of the moment, sometimnes we don't think and act as we should.
By the way, do you know what happened at Clapham Junction today?