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I remember a time many years ago when they had someone manning these crossings and they were all full barriers. I know this will sound funny now but one morning while waiting for a train to pass this old man got out of his cabin or whatever you call it and came down the stairs and opened the...

Their was a tragic accident about 2 to 3 years ago between Grimsby and Scunthorpe when 2 men were killed after a train plowed into them when they were in a van or car I can't remember which and both men died. It was said at the inquest that they were to blame as they tried to cross at a...

I have heard that he was given a years wages and has now got a job with Northern Rail in Hull. He will have to travel but if he has a car he will be able to claim travel allowance which he will what ever way he travels. He has had a rough few months but it sounds like he has landed on his feet...

It's not what I expected to happen but it is better than the sack, in the distant future he could perhaps do the same job for a different rail company in another part of the UK.

The only person whoes life was at risk was a stupid 13 year old boy who put himself in that position by surfing. I have not taken much notice before but the gap between the platform and the train is wide enough to fall down and had Glenn pressed the button he could have been thrown off balance...

According to the Grimsby Telegraph the incident with the conductor and the youth happened on January the 20th and their was no strike action until May shortly after he was sacked. So what happened in those four months between the incident and his sacking, was he suspended on full pay and why...

This puts a different slant on the matter.Did the conductor give the signal to go with the lad already on the step while the train was stationary or did he give the signal to go seconds before the lad jumped back on.If it is the latter he should have his job back but if it is the former I don't...

I am not very good with these prefixes what does sol mean.

On June 29th they are having a march along Cleethorpes seafront in support of the conductor about an hour before the air show. I shall be going with my son who works on the Transpennine trains though not as a conductor. Please come along if you can. --- old post above --- --- new post below ---...

As a member of the general public who has never worked on the railway and if I had been a passenger that day I would have seen the youth surfing if I was in that carriage and seen him jump off at the end of the platform and then the train would have chugged out of the station and off we would go...

I don't know if any of you are familiar with Grimsby Railway Station but their is a rail crossing right outside and when the front of the train reaches the crossing gates the back of the train if their are 4 coaches will still be on the end of the platform. Now it often seems to take an age for...

But the most important question would the conductor be allowed to give the signal to leave the station. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- What I don't get is why tresspassers and these so called surfers are regarded with so much importance, it's not as if they are making the rail...

Why should he get away with it, is their any wonder people have no respect for the law when scum are let off scot free. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- If someone who was a member of the public had grabbed the lad and held him down so he could not move would it have been alright...

As a member of the public who has never worked on the Rail network this is my veiw of the present situation. I live in Grimsby so know the train station very well and can picture the event that happened without being there to witness it. Let's pretend I was there on the station seeing someone...

You could well be right but what type of job can the conductor hope to do in the future. Being a conductor on a train is not the most physical of jobs and it is likely anything he tries is going to be physical and will not pay as good a wage as he got at Transpennine. His future looks bleak and...

You say if the guard hit the stop button and the lad died as a result it would have been the lads fault but surely that would have been a worse outcome for the rail company and possibly played on the conductors mind for the rest of his life.

To be a passenger you surely have to be inside the train and also he did not pay to travel, if this had not happened the conductor would still have his job so this lad has in affect got him the sack just because he decided to fool around.

How can you call someone hanging on the side of the train a passenger and this idiot has lost a man he did not even know his job and as a result his family are suffering too, but I don't suppose a low life like that would care.

I remember many years ago hearing about a lad putting his head out of the window of a moving train and he had his head cut off by a train coming in the opposite direction.