Train de-rails

[ChrisMoyles]

1. Tragic accident
2. Dont know about any more fatalities
3. I never travel with Virgin, But by the sounds of what I have been hearing about corners and sliding to the side, this may give virgin bad rep?

I mean REAl bad rep

4. Richard Branson arrived at the scene at around 10:45 am this morning

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surely they can report it for being pointless and get it removed?

[Kymux]

i was a train like that in the summer

wow whats it like to be a train

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wow whats it like to be a train

LMAAAAAAO

i meant to say, i was on a train like that

[cocaine]

i mean on the way to liverpool, coming out of watford junction, there is a massive bend, your practically on your side.

i know where watford junction is

but ive never taken a train on it.

[ZL2.]

1. Tragic accident
2. Dont know about any more fatalities
3. I never travel with Virgin, But by the sounds of what I have been hearing about corners and sliding to the side, this may give virgin bad rep?

I mean REAl bad rep

4. Richard Branson arrived at the scene at around 10:45 am this morning

I dont think its going to give them a bad reputation if it was caused by the points on the track. You also have to keep in mind this is virgins first major incident since owning the franchise of the WCML, which is about 10 years... So they are doing very good tbh.

anyways yeah im not surprised they derailed, when they go round corners they proper slide to one side, its not safe really.

Well, the reason they slide to one side is because of the new high tech computers installed on the Virgin Voyagers and Pendolinos which make it safer for them to travel at higher speeds around bends then an average HST.

[Seacat]

lol the people who made these trains aren't just gonner be some university graduate in his first year or something. They'll be the best engineers that exist and I'm sure they'll take in to account the balance e.t.c. :p Plus they're probably controlled by computers, and although they can go wrong, I think it's fair to say they'll be the safest trains that exist. Richard Branson even said in a Press Conference earlier that they're well above the safety standards expected by law and cost a lot more to build as a result.

i know there made to do that idiot, im just saying, if something slides to one side as bad as that, then obviously its going to affect balance.

i mean on the way to liverpool, coming out of watford junction, there is a massive bend, your practically on your side.

It is a tragedy but everytime people see a train crash they assume that all trains are unsafe for some reason, when, if you look at it in context only 1 person has died on a train (lastnight) since 2002 (from technical/engineering faults anyway, of course a lot of people died on the tube trains but that was because of terrorist attacks). 1 out of 5 billion passengers. I'm not sure how many die from car crashes each year but I'm sure the odds aren't that good - so I'd say travelling by train is still the safest way to go.

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lol the people who made these trains aren't just gonner be some university graduate in his first year or something. They'll be the best engineers that exist and I'm sure they'll take in to account the balance e.t.c. :p Plus they're probably controlled by computers, and although they can go wrong, I think it's fair to say they'll be the safest trains that exist.

I agree with you on that.

[GTA-Andy]

As someone actually from Cumbria with family from the Tebay rail area I can tell you now: This isn't serious Tebay as seen much much worse. Considering the state of Britain’s rail it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often, these Pendelinos cant even get to their maximum speed in Cumbria due to the poor state of the rail lines. I was insulted by Richard Branson describing the Greyrigg area as "The Sticks" though. Meh make a great airline end up with a naff train service

[ZL2.]

As someone actually from Cumbria with family from the Tebay rail area I can tell you now: This isn't serious Tebay as seen much much worse. Considering the state of Britain’s rail it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often, these Pendelinos cant even get to their maximum speed in Cumbria due to the poor state of the rail lines. I was insulted by Richard Branson describing the Greyrigg area as "The Sticks" though. Meh make a great airline end up with a naff train service

I wouldn't say a 'naff train service' IMO, I think virgin trains are one of the best and most reliable train operators, so far pendolino's and voyagers (I don't know about the hull pioneers) are the most advanced passenger trains in britain.