12 inches...

[ofco8]

...from possible death if you have travelled through Balcombe Tunnel during past three years. On South East Today, now.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Spill

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-24287066

 

[happypig]

"Thousands could have died" or to put it another way, no-one died (not that I am belittling the danger but at least it was exposed before anything bad happened)

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

What? This thread nearly one hour old and no smutty replies!!! Shame on you.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Inside Out is broadcast on Monday, 30 September on BBC One South East and South at 19:30 BST as well as South East Today. You can watch it now.

 

[Billy the Fish]

These tunnels should be inspected more than what they're doing now and with competent people, not someone, no disrespect, but not someone out of university or college with a degree in one hand and a torch in the other.

Not that he's bitter or anything

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

"Thousands could have died" or to put it another way, no-one died (not that I am belittling the danger but at least it was exposed before anything bad happened)

It is sensationalism, though it is the truth. It should have been checked better, more Network Rail failings....

 

[Paris]

What? This thread nearly one hour old and no smutty replies!!! Shame on you.

At first glance I thought somebody had started a thread about me

 

[Seagull on the wing]

What? This thread nearly one hour old and no smutty replies!!! Shame on you.

OK....I've got 12 inches.....but I don't use it as a rule.....

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It is sensationalism, though it is the truth. It should have been checked better, more Network Rail failings....

From what I understand of the programme, it took a whistleblower to expose the failings.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

OK....I've got 12 inches.....but I don't use it as a rule.....

So do I ...... If I bend it in half.

The old ones never fail.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Also a couple of lines in the mid sussex times about Balcombe viaduct only has a few weeks left! Frigging fracking!

 

[Trufflehound]

12 inches sounds suspicious to me.

I sense something is afoot.

 

[Czechmate]

I think I remember reading on here , back in the 80's I think someone put their head out of the window on the way home from football and got killed . Perhaps checks should of been made then but H&S was not an issue then.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I think I remember reading on here , back in the 80's I think someone put their head out of the window on the way home from football and got killed . Perhaps checks should of been made then but H&S was not an issue then.

I remember that....

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I think I remember reading on here , back in the 80's I think someone put their head out of the window on the way home from football and got killed . Perhaps checks should of been made then but H&S was not an issue then.

Certainly there was a chap I was at school with in the 70s, on one of the old slam-door trains, was leaning out the window just before the tunnel and the door opened, with him on it - he was pulled back by another passenger just in time. That would not have been pretty.

 

[Hillian1]

I think I remember reading on here , back in the 80's I think someone put their head out of the window on the way home from football and got killed . Perhaps checks should of been made then but H&S was not an issue then.

It was a Liverpool fan after a match at The Goldstone, he stuck his head out the window in Patcham Tunnel and something, a bracket I think, took half his head off.

 

[Triggaaar]

So the company put people's lives at risk, and saved money. Will they be fined for this?

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

From what I understand of the programme, it took a whistleblower to expose the failings.

The programme didnt really expose anything, the Rail Accident report did.....and that was released a while ago. It slated Network Rail in the report and exposed the failings.

The BBC have only decided to cover it now as its 2 years since it happened.

So the company put people's lives at risk, and saved money. Will they be fined for this?

Probably not, besides Network Rail are Publicly funded, so if the government fine them, it will come out of the public pocket into the governments.