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Title: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: Rods2 on 23 January 2014, 00:36:12

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544087/Teenager-electrocuted-death-putting-ear-live-rail-listen-tracks.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544087/Teenager-electrocuted-death-putting-ear-live-rail-listen-tracks.html)

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: 05omegav6 on 23 January 2014, 01:06:19

And todays Darwin Award goes to... ::)

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: r1 on 23 January 2014, 08:39:39

to be fair if you look at the picture of the tracks they don't look electric.

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 23 January 2014, 09:19:46

Thats because the Daily Fail have, as is the norm, miss reported and printed a picture of a standard track panel and not one with third rail electrification (Scalextric country).

To add insult to injury, thats not a piece of mainline track either because its flat bottom rail on wooden sleepers!

So probably a siding somewhere or a preserved line!

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: chrisgixer on 23 January 2014, 09:59:05

Did someone mention the F word?  :-X

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: 2boxerdogs on 23 January 2014, 10:13:05

Hard to believe, but a tragic way for a young life to end.

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 23 January 2014, 10:16:16

He obviously never thought to himself 'I wonder why these English people don't walk on the tracks like we do in Pakistan'   :-\

A tragic end to a young life.  :(

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 23 January 2014, 10:48:45

A more appropriate photo would have been:

(http://www.trackoff.org/images/thirdrail.jpg)

Still 750 VDC through his lug hole will have resulted in a mercifuly quick death

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 23 January 2014, 11:04:14

Very sad  :'( :'(

It proves again how we as humans can be ignorant when in an unknown situation, and a little knowledge can be dangerous.

In regards to that track picture that Mark has correctly commented on, thank God that it not main line running lines! :D

Title: Re: Don't try this at your local station
Post by: Andy B on 23 January 2014, 11:12:54

Our local line to Manchester used to be a third rail system ...... it worked very well from 1879 1916 until it became part of the Metro  ;)