"Climate protest halts coal train" - BBC

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 452395.stm

[AlistairW]

Idiots, stopping a train with a red flag is hardly safe, and is unloading coal into private property (the railways) against the law? I also don't quite understand how wasting the coal by shovelling it onto the track is going to help at all?

[johncard]

I just saw that footage aswell. No mention of Northern trains being suspended between Hull and Knottingley, though I assume they are. Even once the campaigners have disembarked, they still won't be able to reopen the line for the heaped up coal.

Stupid idea in the first place, but if they HAD to stop the train wouldn't it have made more sense to do it on the Drax branch itself? Someone obviously didn't do their homework very well. No passenger trains = more cars on the road...

Amused me the reference to tying down the wheels - not sure what they could affix it to that the torque of a 66 couldn't break!

[TheAmateurBasher]

To mirror a comment I made on a YouTube video (link available in this thread: http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=84303):

Mindless and dangerous; I'd hate to think what would happen to those protesters, if those waggons suddenly started moving again. I can only hope the British Transport Police will be onto those reprobates.

[AlistairW]

I hope no bored school children decide that stopping trains with red flags is a good laugh...

[ajax103]

I can think of two words which I won't use as this is a family forum,
Needless to say I hope they pay compo to the Railway and clear up the line.

[AlistairW]

Watching the video it looks as though they've tied the train to the bridge with string...

[superdrive1]

If there still on top of the train now, I say this.
''Superdrive1 is coming to strangle you, tie you to the train track and flatten you with the train you stopped the movement of.

[ianmacmillan]

Just as well nobody knew how to work the hopper doors.


Hope the BT police arrested them for criminal stupidity.