A series about Paddington station started last night. They showed video of
the HST derailment there along with recovery efforts which was pretty
interesting and enlightening (especially the poor track workers having to
work in human waste). Apparently the cause was track spread due to rotten
sleepers. You'd think someone might have checked but I guess they didn't expect
much to happen at 5mph.

wrote:
A series about Paddington station started last night. They showed video of
the HST derailment there along with recovery efforts which was pretty
interesting and enlightening (especially the poor track workers having to
work in human waste). Apparently the cause was track spread due to rotten
sleepers. You'd think someone might have checked but I guess they didn't expect
much to happen at 5mph.

The series actually started about a month ago.

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:51:24 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
A series about Paddington station started last night. They showed video of
the HST derailment there along with recovery efforts which was pretty
interesting and enlightening (especially the poor track workers having to
work in human waste). Apparently the cause was track spread due to rotten
sleepers. You'd think someone might have checked but I guess they didn't
expect
much to happen at 5mph.

The series actually started about a month ago.

What can I say, I don't watch much TV. It said it was new on the schedule, I
guess they just meant the program, not the series.

In message , at 10:28:13 on
Tue, 24 Oct 2017, remarked:

The way these TV companies describe their series is not always clear.
I think on our PVR guide the present episodes are described as new in
a manner that on first glance may look like it is a new series being
introduced, when what they must mean it is a new episode.

Then there's the curious concept of "all new" TV programmes.

Anyway, I'm watching the Paddington series on Ch5 catch-up, and while
the derailed train has shown up in trailers attached to earlier
programmes in the series, I haven't got as far as this actual episode
yet.
--
Roland Perry

On 24/10/2017 09:43, wrote:
A series about Paddington station started last night. They showed video of
the HST derailment there along with recovery efforts which was pretty
interesting and enlightening (especially the poor track workers having to
work in human waste). Apparently the cause was track spread due to rotten
sleepers. You'd think someone might have checked but I guess they didn't expect
much to happen at 5mph.

Strangely enough it was one of the few bits of TV I've watched recently
and I agree it was pretty interesting.

I do wonder with Paddington (and other covered stations where there will
be no weather to deal with the waste) whether it would be possible to
have installed some form of drainage underneath where the toilets are
when the train stops (I know it's not exact, but some kind of trough in
the rough location with a flushing mechanism could do the job and not
leave it festering).

Or of course retrofit the trains with storage tanks....

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:01:55 +0100
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 24/10/2017 09:43, wrote:
A series about Paddington station started last night. They showed video of
the HST derailment there along with recovery efforts which was pretty
interesting and enlightening (especially the poor track workers having to
work in human waste). Apparently the cause was track spread due to rotten
sleepers. You'd think someone might have checked but I guess they didn't
expect
much to happen at 5mph.

Strangely enough it was one of the few bits of TV I've watched recently
and I agree it was pretty interesting.

I do wonder with Paddington (and other covered stations where there will
be no weather to deal with the waste) whether it would be possible to
have installed some form of drainage underneath where the toilets are
when the train stops (I know it's not exact, but some kind of trough in
the rough location with a flushing mechanism could do the job and not
leave it festering).

Or just have the toilets locked out of use at termini.

Or of course retrofit the trains with storage tanks....

That would be the best solution, or at the very least something that captures
the solid waste but lets the fluids out if space is an issue.

On 24/10/2017 12:09, wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:01:55 +0100, Someone Somewhere
wrote:


I do wonder with Paddington (and other covered stations where there will
be no weather to deal with the waste) whether it would be possible to
have installed some form of drainage underneath where the toilets are
when the train stops (I know it's not exact, but some kind of trough in
the rough location with a flushing mechanism could do the job and not
leave it festering).

Or of course retrofit the trains with storage tanks....

What trains are left without now? HST with only a few more years use
and what else. So a problem that has been around for over a century
isn't really worth spending much money on for the last few years that
the situation exists.

Yes - sorry - I meant to imply in the distant past rather than recently
(in my defence I did say "to have installed" rather than in the current
or future tense)

In message , at 12:09:41 on
Tue, 24 Oct 2017, remarked:

Or of course retrofit the trains with storage tanks....

What trains are left without now? HST with only a few more years use
and what else.

IC225? (Yes, I know, they don't operate at Paddington).
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:09:41 on
Tue, 24 Oct 2017, remarked:

Or of course retrofit the trains with storage tanks....

What trains are left without now? HST with only a few more years use
and what else.

IC225? (Yes, I know, they don't operate at Paddington).


Weren't they built with retention tanks?


Anna Noyd-Dryver

In message , at 13:27:32 on Tue, 24 Oct
2017, Anna Noyd-Dryver remarked:

Or of course retrofit the trains with storage tanks....

What trains are left without now? HST with only a few more years use
and what else.

IC225? (Yes, I know, they don't operate at Paddington).

Weren't they built with retention tanks?

It seems they were.

--
Roland Perry