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If the interview was in daylight it will have been the one I saw this lunchtime.

Sounds quite frightening: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59560728

Yes, I'm surprised that a senior member on a rail forum would have such a casual viewpoint on safety matters. Just because the railway got away with it this gime does not mean that the problem isn't important or that we can sit back complacently.

Might the answer be a series of smaller measures, including more tree clearance, increases in sanding capacity on lightweight trains, and possible, scrubbers to clean tyres of leaf muck residue?

Reading the Salisbury accident thread as an enthusiast layman, there are plenty of people lining up to dismiss any idea that is being proposed or existing available approach to the factors which are presumed by RAIB to have been proximal to the accident, and this seems from my perspective to be...

Yes, there was a secondary low that developed and, as you say, generated a sting jet in a swathe from the south coast to Lincolnshire. There are reports of a short-lived spin-up tornado from this jet in Northants later in the day.

Perhaps those areas in which smaller managed trees and bushes by the lineside are advantageous AND which are away from block post or junction signals can be dealt with differently from those areas where railhead conditions are the most important consideration?

This is where explanation has to be almost patronisingly basic to make it clear to people that cutting down trees on railway property isn't just vandalism, but actually has a critical safety function.

It ought to - by the sounds of it, with another train having recently cleared the tunnel (in the opposite direction?) the consequences could have been very bad indeeed.

Sounds as though we were along the right path in our thinking. 1635869972 Still they get it wrong.

I think it depends on how you define "cutting down enough trees" - unless they're actually fouling the loading guage you can argue that they're not a problem, but there's a reason the steam era railway had very few trees within railway property boundaries, and it wasn't entirely to do with fires.

I'm not a fan of cutting back or netting trees/hedgerows in case a housing development gets the green light, but this is a matter of safety, so, unfortunately, it must be done.

I wasn't aware of this - then again, since Covid, we've only had the Evening News twice a week.

Thanks both - this was confusing me as well. Sad to hear that one of the drivers appears to have suffered more serious injuries.

Swainsthorpe on the GEML near me is another - in the centre of a village, with properties on both sides and a junction with the A140 some 300 metres to the east.

I live around 1.4 miles from the GEML, and the Class 86s were quite audible on a still summer's evening. Sadly, my hearing's deteriorated due to my disability (Osteogenesis Imperfecta) and the new units are quieter, but it was a very atmospheric and evocative sound to experience.

Advertising people not knowing anything about the railway, I suspect.

I was searching for a thread on that earlier!

Thanks.

Thanks! Where's Poplar Farm?