Crash

ca55ie · Post by **ca55ie** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:26 am

I was searching for pics of class 31's when i came across this

Does anyone how it happened to 31245?

Cheers,

Sam

(Oh, and don't worry, it's an old pic

)

ca55ie · Post by **ca55ie** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:30 am

I just found out what happened to it after the crash

Does anyone know how it crashed?

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:08 am

Violently...

ca55ie · Post by **ca55ie** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:10 am

johndibben wrote:Violently...

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:45 pm

I think it crashed into Bill Gates wallet, on tour around Seattle (Or was it Stoke?)

47522 · Post by **47522** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 4:21 pm

fairlie · Post by **fairlie** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:03 pm

Was it one of the pair that fell of the Bridge Near Cricklewood?

thedarkness · Post by **thedarkness** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:53 pm

I've got a picture of 1 class 31 sat on top of another class 31 in a road, after someone released the brakes on them when they were stood in a nearby yard

broads2 · Post by **broads2** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:04 pm

sounds like it took a wrong turn

ca55ie · Post by **ca55ie** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:10 pm

thedarkness wrote:I've got a picture of 1 class 31 sat on top of another class 31 in a road, after someone released the brakes on them when they were stood in a nearby yard

Can you upload it?

thedarkness · Post by **thedarkness** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:51 pm

I haven't got a scanner, but i can try to photograph it with my camera. Got to go out in a minute, do it when i come back

TomBoyRacer · Post by **TomBoyRacer** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:21 pm

if i'm not mistaken, that loco and another 31 both ran through a bufferstop and plunged onto the north circular road in London in around 1987. of course the one behind then landed on top of the other. i can't rememer just how it happened.

ca55ie · Post by **ca55ie** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:34 pm

TomBoyRacer wrote:if i'm not mistaken, that loco and another 31 both ran through a bufferstop and plunged onto the north circular road in London in around 1987. of course the one behind then landed on top of the other. i can't rememer just how it happened.

That'll be why it has the main impact to the middle of the cab

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:45 pm

According to a book i have

it was stored and withdrawn "due to accident damage sustained in a collision with 31 261 at maryland near stratford (london) on 17/12/1986"

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:01 pm

ca55ie wrote:
thedarkness wrote:I've got a picture of 1 class 31 sat on top of another class 31 in a road, after someone released the brakes on them when they were stood in a nearby yard
Can you upload it?

here you go - from the book "Railway Disasters - cause and effect" by Stanley Hall.

The narative (inside back cover) says :

The locomotives that wanted to try out the North Circular Road !
On 28th October 1988 two unmanned Class 31 locos, presumably with brakes not fulled applied, rolled off together along a short siding. After demolishing the buffer stop they ran down the embankment on to the main road, to the horror of passing motorists on the North Circular, although no-one was hurt. The second loco of the pair landed on the roof of the leading one, reamining precariously balanced. Its back broken by the impact, the leader of the adventurous twosome was later cut in two for reomval from the scene of the accident.