Sounds like the kid knew what he was doing, saying that points arnt rocket science to change and neither is driving a 08.
200 Hours for potentially causing a major rail incident if he had got out onto the mainline, and that's quite easy in Tinsley yard from experience myself, however i think the sentence for this kid was way, way to light. Something like this should be delt in a much stricter way, especially having 40 minutes at the helm of a 49 tonne loco!
Anyway, BMIFlyer has been told to stick to conducting until a driver position becomes available.
Kaddyuk From Wallis and Futuna, joined Nov 2001, 4126 posts, RR: 28 Reply 2, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1426 times:
Quoting EWS (Thread starter): Sounds like the kid knew what he was doing, saying that points arnt rocket science to change and neither is driving a 08.
Driving trains IS easy... Imagine i'm sitting at the controls, i can go faster... and... i can go slower...
I cant turn left, i cant turn right all i can do is go backwards and forwards...
Sounds pretty simple to me...
Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had Gonorrhea
Trekster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1379 times:
View was my idea, but he looked like he was having fun. Remember the cute guy (not) in the white shirt and tight jean/shorts dancing just behind him, i think he pulled HAHAHAHAHA
(BTW I REALLY did not mean my first post to sound the way it did lol. I laughed when lew saw it)
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11257 posts, RR: 63 Reply 7, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1375 times:
Thats pretty frightening Lew that he could get in there unstopped. I mean Tinsley isn't exactly some small backwater freight yard, surely somebody would have been suspicious by a loco rumbling up and down the tracks for 40 minutes in broad daylight!!!!!! High res vests are pretty easy to come by on ebay and the likes, he'd most likely have gotten away with it if he was wearing one by the sounds of it!
Ah well, at least we know now where Lee went on the Sunday
Kazzie From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1363 times:
Quoting Trekster (Reply 6): View was my idea, but he looked like he was having fun. Remember the cute guy (not) in the white shirt and tight jean/shorts dancing just behind him, i think he pulled HAHAHAHAHA
HE managed to pull????
Oh and that big fat lesbo *shiver*
to both Dans: You should have came out with the rest of us, now that was Sm jiggy moving! 'Fish fish fish fiah fish, Do the box!'
Trekster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1350 times:
Do u not remember me pointing out that dude with the white shirt tide up like a girl with tight short jeans on, just covering his bits lol. Kept looking at lee.
If i had come out and drunk more, i would of jumped one of the guys lol. Dont want to scare people haha.
Yes kazzie, i do remember the fat lesbian brushing her tits into u, and if i recall Hannah got chatted up by a lady as well. Though she is hot (as u are kazzie) so it should be a compliment
MattRB From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 1624 posts, RR: 11 Reply 12, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1333 times:
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 10): it was bad enough in View - I started talking (if you can talk with such loud music, lol ) to a girl at the bar, only she turned out to be a guy
WARNING - May Contain Nuts.
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Kazzie From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1333 times:
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 10): it was bad enough in View - I started talking (if you can talk with such loud music, lol Wink) to a girl at the bar, only she turned out to be a guy
Gutted!
The place we ended up raving in (and yes being on stage) was much better
Nighthawk From UK - Scotland, joined Sep 2001, 4993 posts, RR: 38 Reply 16, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1275 times:
Quoting Kazzie (Reply 13): The place we ended up raving in (and yes being on stage) was much better Silly
Yea, that place was ace. Wasnt much talent in though
IFEMaster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1271 times:
I wonder what this guys train of thought of at the time? Do you think the idea of stealing a train and the action were of his own coupling, or do you think he was shunted in that direction by someone else?
EWS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 19, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1268 times:
Quoting IFEMaster (Reply 17): I wonder what this guys train of thought of at the time? Do you think the idea of stealing a train and the action were of his own coupling, or do you think he was shunted in that direction by someone else?
His mates were with him by the trackside but he knew what he was doing and took full control of the loco and showed off to his mates.
I think his mates edged him on a little, but still.. could of been very nasty.
IFEMaster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1264 times:
Quoting EWS (Reply 19):
His mates were with him by the trackside but he knew what he was doing and took full control of the loco and showed off to his mates.
I think his mates edged him on a little, but still.. could of been very nasty.
Dang. My well thought out puns were completely lost on you.
Nighthawk From UK - Scotland, joined Sep 2001, 4993 posts, RR: 38 Reply 23, posted (6 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1247 times:
26 Nighthawk: I filmed your box? Damn I must have been drunk, cant remember that at all. I bet I could sell that video for a fortune on here.... Any A.netters wann
27 LTBEWR: The driving of a locomotive isn't the problem, it's knowing how and when to stop and knowing the singal systems that is the difficult part. 50 Tons of
28 BMIFlyer: Arse! Arse again! You have not got a clue..... Arse again!! Lee
30 Speedbirdie: I was not chatted up by that lesbo! She was merely asking me where the laydees washroom facilities were And you are right, the talent in there was sho
31 BMIFlyer: Thats why we have gay bars I guess Before anyone remarks, no, I don't have another "lifestyle" as people put it. The simple reason why I'm single is
32 PlymSpotter: I believe this is your loco - reg. 08784, its the only class 08 in EWS livery registered to Tinsley depot I was meaning the girl on the right Lew Dan
35 Srbmod: I wonder if on some rail enthusiast forum they have threads regarding MS Train Simulator vs. operating a real engine? I guess you could take some of t
37 EWS: I'd say thats possible if you found a very details and full working cab.. Certainly the 08's are simplified in controls and operating compaired to th
38 Aviationwiz: If it were a plane, I'd consider doing the 200 hours community service, :P
39 Traindriver: Some of the train buffs I met when I worked on the R.R. knew as much about the equipment as we the train crews did. A few times I had to sic the cops
41 Sean377: I wonder why??? Hey Lew, I've got a friend drives 66's for EWS. Works out of Castleford and usually takes MGR's up and down the Settle to Carlisle (I
42 EWS: Yep.. sure does, I work for EWS also.. as a driver Class (60/66/67) Im based at Scunthorpe/Immingham/Doncaster and only know the guys from those depo
43 Legoguy: Hey the kid must have been a real train euthusiast. The guy started the locomotive with a span using some complicatied method. Maybe the train service
44 EWS: Theres a gate which is sealed across the line before he is able to proceed onto the mainline.. but with 49 tonnes of loco and a steel gate, its nothi
45 Legoguy: Whilst I realise what the guy did what completely stupid, he obviously knew not to go on to the mainline where he would have had more room for speed
46 Cornish: Lew I can't believe you were silly enough to leave the keys in the ignition Mind you they should punish this lad too severely - he could come in handy
47 EWS: There's a safety barrier which would of stopped him getting onto the mainline anyway at Tinsley.. There's a catch-point which is electronically contr
48 ME AVN FAN: - well, 200 hours means 25 working days, or 13 weekends, or quite a heavy part of his sparetime in the coming 4 months. It will teach him a lesson. -
49 ME AVN FAN: so that he apparently "drove" the loco quite professionally, and in a decent way, so that people thought he HAD to work there.
50 EWS: Prison is a little harsh i have to agree with that, with him being a young lad, however it doesnt doubt the fact of what he did.. 200 hours is way to
51 Legoguy: True, but it was the manner in which he started the loco up. It didn't just have a set of keys which would have been fine and dandy. He used a spanne
52 EWS: Most of our 08's are button start now anyway.. but im not too sure about the one at Tinsley, the loco in question.. but as he's educated in engineeri
53 AirbusA346: I'm surprised he didn't find or acquire an Orange Hi-Vis Jacket. Tom.
54 EWS: They do come up on eBay and such auction sites quite regularly, but EWS have there own team based at CDC in Doncaster who are employed to trawl eBay
55 AirbusA346: Bentley do it as well, according to my brother. I don't know if you have heard of a program on BBC 1 called 'Traffic Cops'. A couple of weeks ago, Be
56 ME AVN FAN: - I think, the judge in question acted in a truelly salomonic way. The idea of the judge quite obviously was NOT an emphasis on punishment but an emp
57 Legoguy: You are probably right, but the newspaper where I read the story from said when the locomotive had been parked, it had its battery isolated. Would th
58 PlymSpotter: I was just thinking that the signal box/ yard forman should have noticed considering it went on for so long. I've not been to Tinsley, so don't know
59 Legoguy: Hehehe so much trains yet no track to run them on. Do you have them in a big glass display. I used to love trains but them I had to sell them all sin
60 PlymSpotter: Indeed, I'm having to sell most of mine as well, not to pay for student fees, but to appease my insatiable appitite for flying and travel I've kept ma
61 Legoguy: Actually wait...OO and HO are the same...I forget which one my dad has.....Ones british scale and ones continental and slight smaller but both use sa
62 PlymSpotter: 00 is British standard gauge. HO is Continental, slightly smaller but you can't really tell the difference. Blackened wheels, ahh that reminds me of
63 EWS: I treid that too when i got my first OO!! Took me ages to figure it out then i realised... doh! Lew
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