Rail News

[Virgo's Haircut]

Services via Quarry Line (Purley - Earlswood Fast) being cautioned due to a landslip

Services via Falmer cautioned due to a landslip

Services via Polegate cautioned due to earlier flooding

 

[clippedgull]

Services via Quarry Line (Purley - Earlswood Fast) being cautioned due to a landslip

Services via Falmer cautioned due to a landslip

Services via Polegate cautioned due to earlier flooding

Crikey! The Fat controller has been loose with his cards.

Any straight reds today?

 

[edna krabappel]

Anyone know what was going on at Burgess Hill this morning?

I saw hundreds of people coming off a northbound train and queuing up outside in Station Road. I assume they were waiting for a bus.

Another landslip? The wrong kind of snow? Leaves on the line?

 

[Man of Harveys]

Anyone know what was going on at Burgess Hill this morning?

I saw hundreds of people coming off a northbound train and queuing up outside in Station Road. I assume they were waiting for a bus.

Another landslip? The wrong kind of snow? Leaves on the line?

Someone had a heart attack on a train - it was about two trains in front of mine. Apparently they were in a bad way and had to be treated on the train rather than be moved. We waited for about 50 mins for the train to move, it's pretty understandable though.

 

[Buzzer]

Re: Re: Rail News

Crikey! The Fat controller has been loose with his cards.

Any straight reds today?

 

[Buzzer]

Someone had a heart attack on a train - it was about two trains in front of mine. Apparently they were in a bad way and had to be treated on the train rather than be moved. We waited for about 50 mins for the train to move, it's pretty understandable though.

Had a heart attack......and in a bad way.

Blimey. A double whammy!

 

[edna krabappel]

Someone had a heart attack on a train - it was about two trains in front of mine. Apparently they were in a bad way and had to be treated on the train rather than be moved. We waited for about 50 mins for the train to move, it's pretty understandable though.

I did see the ambulance in the car park come to think of it. Sounds like a bit of a nightmare. Hope the person was ok- there's never a good time to lose someone, but it always seems particularly cruel at this time of year.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Had a heart attack......and in a bad way.

I'm guessing it was a polite way of saying that they'd died. To his credit, the driver did a good job in keeping us informed, which, when this sort of disruption was happening every other week about 10 years ago, they certainly didn't always.

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

Had a heart attack......and in a bad way.

Blimey. A double whammy!

Sorry, but have I missed something here?

 

[Man of Harveys]

I did see the ambulance in the car park come to think of it. Sounds like a bit of a nightmare. Hope the person was ok- there's never a good time to lose someone, but it always seems particularly cruel at this time of year.

Quite, it's grim. It got me thinking about the defibrillators that you get on station platforms now - are they like the ones in the Bond film? Are they meant to be used for first aid by non-qualified people or just by paramedics, the police etc?

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

Quite, it's grim. It got me thinking about the defibrillators that you get on station platforms now - are they like the ones in the Bond film? Are they meant to be used for first aid by non-qualified people or just by paramedics, the police etc?

Well conductors/guards and I think drivers know nothing about them whatsoever. We only actually know about them, because we've seen them on platforms.

 

[edna krabappel]

Think you have to be trained. They have them in the front office at John Street police station, and when they got them, everyone got an e-mail saying they wanted volunteers to go on the training course.

Put it this way, if I was feeling a bit grim, I'd want to know that the person about to stick 50,000 volts through me knew their stuff.

Though I suppose if you're at the point of seeing the white light at the end of the tunnel, you wouldn't really care, would you...

 

[Buzzer]

Sorry, but have I missed something here?

okay ... a little tasteless, so sorry. But it's a bit of a tautology to say that someone's had a heart attack and that they're in a bad way.

Sorry chaps.

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

okay ... a little tasteless, so sorry. But it's a bit of a tautology to say that someone's had a heart attack and that they're in a bad way.

Sorry chaps.

It's ok, but Santas gift to you, has just got a little smaller.

 

[sully]

I was on the train on which the man was taken ill.

The ambulance crew thought he had a better chance of surviving if not moved. After about half an hour, we were all taken off the train and advised that busses were being organised.

I looked back down the track at all the trains parked on every signal and wondered how the people on those would be moved.

After a while and no busses, and having visited Fourteenth Eye for a chat in his office, we were advised that we could rejoin the train, but not in the rear section where the man had been treated.

I cannot confirm, but I was told he didn't make it.

Very sad indeed, and at least I was just very late for work.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Holy shite. Which train was this? My father catches a 748 or something from Preston Park.

 

[Since1982]

Holy shite. Which train was this? My father catches a 748 or something from Preston Park.

It was at BHill at around 8:45 or so, so probably not the train your father was on. It was all a bit of a mess this morning.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It was at BHill at around 8:45 or so, so probably not the train your father was on. It was all a bit of a mess this morning.

Thanks. It is always a worry when you can't get hold of someone and you hear news like that.

Very sad news indeed.

 

[fatboy]

The person died.

 

[goldstone]

Someone had a heart attack on a train - it was about two trains in front of mine. Apparently they were in a bad way and had to be treated on the train rather than be moved. We waited for about 50 mins for the train to move, it's pretty understandable though.

Two points:
1. If he was being treated on the train it would not have made any difference surely whether it was a moving train or a stationary train. So why didn't they keep the train going to the next siding while he was being treated. Common sense and would have saved so many people's journeys being disrupted.
2. A reason why they should have kept at least one siding in each station. The train could have been moved off the main line and other trains continued operating.