Near miss at Seaburn station

[blacknight]

RAIB have published a bulletin into incident at Seaburn station, where cleaner clearing snow from platforms was nearly struck by trainhttp://www.raib.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/bulletins_2011/bulletin02_2011.cfm
Raises serious questions about use of sub contractors on railways & what is concidered to be working on or near the line. As a minimum standard cleaners should have to pass a railway medical & have basic understanding of English before being employed.

 

[142094]

Seen this previously. Suprised none of the local rags up here have spotted it yet.

 

[DarloRich]

VERY lucky! ( Not even any High Viz on!)

 

[blacknight]

Scandal here is the length these companys go to evade their responsibility & ensuring staff are trained & competent to carry out the task, usually 1.25m as that avoids the need for PTS

 

[Cherry_Picker]

I wonder if there is a story in a newspaper in a parallel universe where the guy got sacked before the near miss happened?

 

[Royston Vasey]

Seen this previously. Suprised none of the local rags up here have spotted it yet.

Surprised?? You've clearly never read the Sunderland Echo!! Not surprising at all! Fairly minor incident though, I wouldn't expect this to make the news.

 

[142094]

Surprised?? You've clearly never read the Sunderland Echo!! Not surprising at all! Fairly minor incident though, I wouldn't expect this to make the news.

I'm not a Mackem so would read that sort of thing!

I wouldn't say it is that minor either, sure the report has stills of the CCTV and it was very close (note it was a Northern going through non-stop so would have been travelling near enough to full line speed).

 

[davo882000]

I'm not a Mackem so would read that sort of thing!

(Refering to Sunderland Echo)

Im not a tory either as its a tory paper... lol