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Thread ID: 132678 2013-05-19 23:54:00 Derail the Train!!!!! GameJunkie (72) PC World Chat
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1342061 2013-05-20 23:38:00 Is it still a twenty pound fine for pulling the emergency cord without justification? :D Bobh (5192)
1342062 2013-05-20 23:39:00 You can probably thank the tossers on the RWC trains for that, people too scared to use emergency brakes in an emergency :rolleyes:

Pretty sure that a passenger hyperventilating / passing out in a crowded train passes as an emergency. They did the right thing.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1342063 2013-05-20 23:43:00 Is it still a twenty pound fine for pulling the emergency cord without justification? :D

Yep, but if you don't have a twenty pound note on you it becomes a few thousand NZ dollars
the_bogan (9949)
1342064 2013-05-20 23:50:00 Pretty sure that a passenger hyperventilating / passing out in a crowded train passes as an emergency. They did the right thing.

Was referring to people pushing the emergency button for the hell of it. That's a genuine emergency Chill ;)
pcuser42 (130)
1342065 2013-05-21 00:44:00 I think on the RWC trains it was the (lack of) start buttons that were the problem.
Trains used to be called puff-puffs. Now they mostly suck. ;)
R2x1 (4628)
1342066 2013-05-21 02:19:00 Very funny R2x1. zqwerty (97)
1342067 2013-05-21 11:19:00 Derailments are usually caused by lack of maintenance to track & rolling stock. Highly likely in a third world standard country which is continually cutting back on the workers in order to make more profit for the share holders and officials. What scares me more is when an Airline cuts back on service staff. mzee (3324)
1342068 2013-05-21 11:50:00 I did read that, you'd think if you heard strange noises, you would alert the train staff??

Not really, as a Wellingtonian you hear all sorts of noises on the Train esp. on the Johnsonville Line :lol:

Anyway, the Bystander Theory kicks in here. There were so many people on the train who heard the noises that they each assumed that someone else would contact the right authority, even if they had all heard the noises. Sadly because of that this happened.

So basically it is easy say "Why didn't anyone say something" when your sayin' it, and not the one in the actual train...

Sad but true.
SanChippy (16951)
1342069 2013-05-21 23:04:00 Kiwi Rail decided that speed cameras to check on their trains was just a bit too frivolously hi-tech for their operation.
On a trial basis they have employed some artists that will operate in pairs. They will be positioned a league apart and will each do an oil painting of passing trains with a copy of that days paper showing the date.
R2x1 (4628)
1342070 2013-05-21 23:16:00 Kiwi Rail decided that speed cameras to check on their trains was just a bit too frivolously hi-tech for their operation.

And a GPS and locomotive logging isn't? ;)
pcuser42 (130)
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