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321class93 , Or maybe they were all just doing this:
there you go , as i posted earlier someone taking in the air and a psychotic serial killer comes from behind you grabs your legs and tips you out!!!!!!!!!!! no sign of a struggle , no evidence after a few bounces along the ballast-
ok ,that...
P.G some good findings there. but as usual it raises many questions
1/Having waded through this it appears that the vast majority of instances involved deliberate opening/misuse by passengers. Q/ were these witnessed or assumed? especially the ones that were related to the tamworth area, where...
back then train staff were asked to keep an eye out for a body if a door was seen open and a passenger suspected or a posibility of one fallen out .When i worked on out stations (when all stations had porters or railmen) i was once asked to go check the line for a possible blonde haired little...
it would depend on many factors i suppose, if the victim was intoxicated , the size of victim to assailant or assailants, if the victims were stunned by, say, a blow to the head rendering them unable to struggle. And even if someone was to struggle whilst been thrown out by a window,there was...
does anyone know, were there any reports of witnesses seeing these drunks actually open the wrong doors and fall out? or was this just a presumption? just because people have high blood alcohol readings surely wouldnt be enough on its own for coroners to come to that conclusion?
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yes i suppose it would be possible, but in so many incidents? and surely the old dmu`s would have had a similar fatality ratio?
but there again the handle on the hst stayed in the down position and only raised after the 1st catch was activated, the handle would have stayed in the down...
I was a guard (conductor in new money) until 1993 working in the north east.
I remember all to well the people "falling" from the HSTs down south. There was one conductor who "fell out" down south way. the talking point at the time was that he was an experienced conductor and no one understood...
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