These two need to try harder.
This is the horrifying moment a married couple leapt off a railway bridge into a 90ft deep gorge to escape an approaching train during a photoshoot.
Shocking footage shows the pair plunging from Gormaghat Bridge in Pali, Rajasthan, northwest India, around midday on July 15, leaving them seriously injured.
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.
The harrowing moment was captured on video, shared by @TimesNow on X, showing the couple creating content for social media when the train appeared unexpectedly.
Trains don’t appear unexpectedly. It’s a railway line. Trains travel on it. The appearance of one is entirely foreseeable and expected. You have to be beyond stupid to play on the railway lines. Having had to clear up after people who have been hit, I have zero sympathy for these cretins.
“Local authorities are now considering implementing more stringent safety measures to prevent similar accidents in the future. ”
if it wasn’t for people having to clean up the mess, I’d say why bother. And I wouldn’t call it an accident either. What’s the word for a deliberate act of knob?
On the subject of railways, Mr L, I’m wondering what your thoughts are on the future of the railways. As I know you worked in the rail industry, what do you think about the strong possibility that Labour will renationalise the railways? A return to the ‘good old days’ of British Rail?
Mixed. The privatisation was always an ideological bodge and has never really worked. Some things have improved, but we lost the seamless link between the track, signalling and rolling stock. Nationalisation would reverse that. However, having worked prior to privatisation, I dread the reintroduction of Spanish practices and even more influence for the likes of the RMT. On balance, I’d prefer to stick with what we have now. That’s a very brief precis, mind. It’s more complicated than that of course.
Perhaps we need to look at the railways in terms of institutional culture, rather than organisational structures or private versus public ownership. If British railways were run with the culture of efficiency and customer service that Japanese railways have, then they would be superb regardless of whether they were nationalised or privatised. If they are run with a 1970s trade unionist mentality, or the attitude that only short-term profit matters, then the service will be very poor. So, what patterns of ownership and organisation are most likely to promote the right kind of working culture, even if it results in a very odd-looking structure?
Good point. However, the culture is deeply rooted and is refreshed with each new generation. So I see more of the same, frankly.
I know of professional photographers who are viscerally opposed to ‘arty’ photographs on a railway line because of the risks.
I just don’t get why people mess about on railway lines.
Though as for trains not appearing unexpectedly…
Well, there’s this story from nine years ago (sticks in my mind because it’s near my old stomping grounds)
http://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2961257/Schoolgirl-16-tipped-Oxbridge-accidentally-killed-train-sat-set-railway-tracks-talk-best-friend.html
So two girls decide to chill out for an evening and chat… And sit on a railway line?
They didn’t hear it coming? Or feel the vibration through the ground?
My Dad was a Tube Train Driver. In about 1960, as he was coming into Bank ststion, someone jumped in front of the train. Dad tried to stop, but could not before train killed the jumper.
The result was a loss of memory for 12 hours a month later, PDST until his retirement five years later. Before the event he loved his job, afterwards he was in a sweat when he was getting ready for work. So that he did not have to drive into Bank Station he was transferred to the Metrolpolitan Line.
It always annoys me when I see comments on social media about how ‘desperate’ jumpers must be, and yet no sympathy expressed for the driver, or the people who have to deal with the aftermath.
One surprising thing about trains, especially the high speed ones is that you don’t hear them coming. I was once working close to a fence that had a railway line on the other side and when a train passed by at speed I nearly jumped out of my skin. There was no sound of it approaching, nothing until it was actually going past.
Which is why track workers do not rely on hearing them.
A guy I used to work with years ago was going through a rough time at home and in business – through his own fault, and jumped in front of a train in London.
He lived, except for losing a leg…
The driver must have been utterly traumatised! Close associates were disgusted at the wanton and unnescessary display of such selfishness!