Recent content by Murph

It has happened before. Class 221s are "several coaches long", but one hit the buffers in Chester due to poor adhesion (and a design / engineering issue with the sanders on 22x units): https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/buffer-stop-collision-at-chester-station A common factor between the 710 in...

There's also ongoing research by HSE into oil mist fire and explosion risks, starting somewhere around the turn of the century. It is basically fairly new scientific understanding of the subject, with a particular focus on the offshore industry but applicable anywhere. I've not read the latest...

This is speculation, but it's probably the Stonehaven Coastguard Rescue Team (likely with some of Stonehaven RNLI). Many selfless heroic volunteers in those groups. Maritime tradition and culture dictates that they will have immediately offered any assistance they can provide, and they are...

I'm slightly late to the discussion, but have some numbers which might help those saying the damage looks severe for a low speed crash. 400t moving at 15mph has approximately 9 megajoules of kinetic energy. That's equivalent to 9 sticks of Nobel Dynamite or 2.15kg of TNT. Obviously I'm just...

Yup, that's an absolutely critical detail in this. There might end up being some angry exchanges, maybe even the odd raised voice, but this sort of thing should never occur after the gate counter and should absolutely never happen to a passenger that has already been allowed to board and is...

Yeah, far too early for beer. Buck's Fizz or G&T are far better breakfast drinks, with G&T being particularly good for cutting the grease of a good fried breakfast. Save the beer for the afternoon.

That would assume that little details such as facts, journalism, and fairly reflecting reality were in any way important to the people responsible for the drivel. Once those factors are eliminated for convenience, it's obviously better to just use the first photo they can find that shows a good...

In the case of airliners, the brakes only have to be able to do a full unassisted stop from V1 once, with a resulting fire that remains small enough to tolerate a 5 minute response time from the fire service. They are very much designed around engine and air brakes also being used in normal...

Sometimes much longer, many decades, if they get lucky and produce something iconic. E.g. Bullitt was released in 1968, but 50 years later people are still hiring Ford Mustangs in San Francisco, and driving just a little bit fast over those famous hills to feel the +/- G (not suggesting it's a...

The Scotsman Steps?

I really quite like this new livery. It looks modern, classy, and generally not over the top in any way. It reminds me of the BR Pullman InterCity livery (reversed BR blue InterCity). I do also quite like the Saltire livery, but think this is a really good livery that properly creates a...

BBC News puts it at approximately 99% of them being dangerous, according to UK Trading Standards. Fake Apple chargers fail safety tests: Yes, that's the second time I've linked that in this thread, but the message is sufficiently important that it's worth it. Ok, that's specific to fake...

The way that protections such as voltage isolation/separation inside a good quality charger and protective devices such as a RCD should be viewed is roughly the following, in the context of the bath. Protections have to win every time for you to survive; electricity only has to win once for you...

I agree that there's no real blame on Apple here. However, that does not inhibit them from doing their best to highlight risks to customers. Poor quality chargers are an area where the general public's knowledge is probably not so good. With the phones being advertised as splash / water...

I agree with you that those statements seem more consistent with it only being the "low voltage" stuff that was in direct close proximity to the water. The precise circumstances are not unambiguously clear to me, at this point. That ambiguity and the implied thought process that it was safe to...