Recent content by 321Clss93

Brilliant. Mystery solved.

What are these? For years I've seen them dotted around under the platforms at Acton Main Line, Ealing Broadway and West Ealing stations. When I was an ickle one, I used to think "If 'up' means the platform is level, then 'down' must mean everyone falls onto the track". :oops:

If someone would've told me as a young 'un that I would end up genuinely missing the sound of the original screaming Paxmans, I'd have snickered at them like an annoying brat; this being the 1990s. They freaked me the hell out back then, often to the point of tears and holding my ears closed...

Or maybe they were all just doing this: :lol:

Would the HST drivers following the ones from which people fell out have been able to spot all those bodies lying beside the track at speed? Would they stop the train immediately and radio in or something, or would some of the bodies go unnoticed for a while on those long desolate stretches? I'm...

Bladdy 'ell, all that sounds like something from which a film could be made. :o HST Nutters, anyone?

Even then, they sound scary enough with a bit of imagination. :p Interesting that drunkenness was mentioned; on the TV reconstruction, I clearly remember the actress sipping beer from a plastic cup as she leaned against the door. Being a kiddo at the time, I wasn't paying attention to what...

Alright already, I get the bloody point. :lol: So I exaggerated a bit with the wording. "Always" =/= "very often".

Still, if anyone could shed some light on the original story of this topic, I'd be keen to hear it. Specifically, the name of the poor lass and that of the TV show. Quite the mystery! (It was interesting to read the accounts posted here, however. Scary stuff. :shock: )

So I guess the folks at BREL didn't quite anticipate the 'solidness' of British wildlife when they designed that bit. :p

I can only speak for the GWML, but IMO it is often; like every few weeks. Recent pictorial evidence? Alrighty then, I'll give it a go sometime. I just happened to use the first 165 pic available to highlight my point. *shrug*

I wish I would've had a camcorder when the DLR P86/89s were still around; there's hardly any internal footage of them available on YouTube & co. I never appreciated them enough at the time, but ever since 1996 or whenever the very last of them headed off to Essen, I've yearned for time travel to...

This one's been quite the mystery to me since childhood, so I wanted to ask around to see if anyone remembers this. Sometime during 1991-94, there was a TV show episode documenting an incident in which a woman leaned against an HST door when it was at speed, then fell out and presumably died...

I thought birdstrike only affected aircraft? :wink:

First post and topic, so hello to all. :D I'll get right on with a question: On the 165/166s, why is the lower front section (I don't know what it's called) always broken? For over a decade or two I've seen them patched up repeatedly, only to fall apart again soon afterwards. So what...