Excellent presentation

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Is there really a new castle at Newcastle?

How can u think I'm going to be satisfied with a boring vid stuffed with ads ? How can u possibly think that ?

Agreed

Seeing how much emphasis you put in your video about trains, it’s not really surprising to see you here XD Really like your videos btw

But so much less of an adrenaline rush. They should announce all these high risk areas as we go past them, then 1, the driver might take care and 2, it would be like a reality horror film. Bit like the amazing central line tube driver that you really want on hallowe’en because he gives all the ghost stories.

As a Traindriver myself i have to tell you: While ETCS, especially in LVL 2, is a safe System - it really poses problems. For normal lines with a lot of stops, manouvering trains etc. it is a struggle. Older, country specific systems like ZUB or LZB are at almost the same safety but with a lot better integration into daily train-business. The idea behind ETCS is great - if all of europe would use it, passing country borders would be as easy as with a car for every traindriver. But yeah, in every day use it sadly still isn't up to our older systems :(

Hello Plainly Difficult. There is a more advanced system called ATP or Automatic Train Protection. It is however more expensive than TPWS or Train Protection Warning System (I think that is what is called) but both systems do what you think it is. Warn the driver of upcoming signals. In addition British Rail has never addressed the very dangerous flaw of the Sunflower dial and it's sound between Preliminary Caution, Caution and Danger. That is partly what caused accidents like the Ladbroke Grove Accident of 1999.

The local residents were probably like "Oh not again"

@@johnkelly1083 very true.

In the US, rail cars were linked by a brutally treacherous system called "link and pin". It involved the victim, I mean the railroad worker to hold a steel loop (like a huge single link from a steel chain) in between two railcars while the locomotive smacked them together, then quick drop a pin in each side before the rolled back. He had about 4-6" of slack space during which he could yank his hand out at the last second, but heaven help him if he pulled too soon and the coupler fell, requiring whole minutes for the loco to back up and try again. Finger amputation was so common, you could closely estimate how long someone had worked for the railroad by how few fingers he had left. And of course, once he's down to only a couple, the railroad fires him cause he cant do the job, or if he was buddies with someone important, and had the aptitude he could be switched to something that only required 2 fingers, like sending Morse code. In 1873 Eli Janney patented the automatic coupler which just clicks together with no one even near it (still in widespread use in the US and some other countries today [not in Europe]). But railroads felt it was just cheaper to hire workers with more fingers than spend _hundreds_ of dollars for _every_ railroad car. Why, for some railroads that could have amounted to almost $10,000! And merely to save lives and livelihoods! It wasnt until congress acted in ~1898 that it became mandatory, and accidents fell off a cliff; actually becoming MORE productive for the railways without all the screaming and re-attempts, plus it was simply a much faster machine to use, both coupling and uncoupling.

No disrespect to the town of Morpeth, but I'm sure other European countries would simply have built a straighter section of line that bypassed the town altogether. There'd still be the 'Morpeth Curve' which only local trains and freight trains would use. While faster regional, and mainline services from London would be taken onto the new straight section to avoid having to go through Morpeth and use the 'curve'. And then rejoin the existing line north of Morpeth and its curve. Perhaps there isn't the space to do this in our crowded country? - but countries like France and Germany would have done this much earlier.....many decades ago, while there was still space to build a section for faster trains only. They would have worked it out that this curve was too risky for long distance fast services to use....and they would have acted accordingly. But not us it seems. Never us. It's the old lack of foresight and long term thinking again. Something that continues to blight the UK today. And not just with our railways.

Or holding disciplinary meetings instead of letters so that the driver can discuss tactics to avoid future errors and the disciplinary chair can ensure that those tactics do not include speeding through corners.

That would consume all my thoughts too, anything might happen.

Or, like in Japan, stop punishing drivers for being a bit late. This was a common thing in Japan, with drivers being forced to do 'day training' which involved writing pointless apology letters while being shouted at by managers, and then having to work a shift as normal. The number of fatal incidents due to the fear or being 'trained' or sheer exhaustion went through the roof until the practice was outlawed.

Wet leaves on the Line is a Constant worry in...Britain's AUTUMN ........Meaning the FALL in the States for our American Cousins !

As a Morpeht resident, were you also shocked by the narrator (who is a Geordie) referring to Northumberland as "County Northumberland" and putting on a truly silly fake American accent? ("Morrrrrpeth").

Are the accidents well known locally?

@@Mikadobiscuits I believe the major one in 1969 is well known, but the others perhaps not so much?

Survivorship bias :-)

Because beauracracies refuse to spend time & money on PREVENTING ANYTHING, until it has already happened. This story proves that even after an accident, they still do not come up with any real viable answers. Just temporary bandaids. My personal experience with engineers, administration, gvnmt entities, ALL look at money and convenience of changes over safety contingencies ALL THE TIME. There is a human cognitive tendancy to make decisions like a gambling establishment. If the "odds" are not "high" enough, then no action is taken. Rather then "imagine worst-case-scenario" and then tell me what "excuse" would justify their lack of action?! Many humans base their decisions on their "odds" assumptions. Which are NEVER based in statistics of reality/possibility/probability!

September 1986 Colwich collision was remarkable in having just one fatality (driver of the Liverpool-Euston) given the 90/100mph cross-impact and the wreckage. Colwich's junction layout was 'asking for trouble' until signalling was modified to avoid drivers mistaking aspect sequences when the first part of the junction is clear but the second (across the Up Fast and round the corner towards Stoke) is not.

Thank you for your kind words!

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I went down to the comments to wright just this. Spot on :)

i live near amble

i assume they forgot to mention that Concentration Camps are a British invention??

In my younger life, I lived in Morpeth and worked in Newcastle for over ten years. I travelled by train to work, so I went over this rail curve more than one thousand times ! Including some evenings out. Returning on the KX to Edinburgh Mail Train, which stopped at Morpeth. I remember the May 1969 derailment. My GP Doctor lived very near the railway line curve at time, and was out of bed at the lineside by 1.45am. Never arriving for his Surgery that day ! As a result of this 1969 derailment, very large warning signs in Red were erected , in both directions, 2 miles before entering Morpeth Station. Advising of a 40mph max. speed limit travelling through Morpeth Station. Unfortnately, it failed to have the appropriate effect concerning the June 1984 derailment, which I remember. Causing ECML Trains to be diverted, both North and South, on to the freight only line via Bedlington to reach Newcastle. With the electricfication of the ECML in 1990, the curve, just to the West of Morpeth Station has been slightly realigned, thus the altered Max. Speed to 50mph. Up to 1930, it would have been possible to construct a straighter by pass rail line , but Morpeth has become larger and more built up, including around the Railway Station, which it wasn't in my 1950s childhood.

Are you from Cleveland?

It didn't stop me travelling through the curve, but let's say I was thinking about the history when I heard the train announcer saying 'The next stop is Morpeth' when I travelled on that section in 1997

I often get anxiety on trains and only feel better when the brakes come on.

I've travelled the east coast line from Edinburgh to Newcastle many times over the years and i never knew about this next time I'll definitely be thinking about this video haha

live at peth, you would be fine

The journey will still be about a thousand times safer than if you went by car, and about ten times safer than if you went by plane.

Exactly what I said modern roadside speed indicators show the driver his feed back speed approaching the radar derived speed readout dont even need magnets unless you want to link it to a brake application . Just a series of red lights at 50 M intervals that stay illuminated whilst the train remains above speed limit and a circular illuminated readout of the train MPH the on the drivers left side would probably be enough to alert the driver ( on the occasions this has occurred night time darkness )

@@andyrichards2569 Ok but having the driver to actually confirm that he/she has seen the lower speed area approaching by pressing a button is always better than just show him/her that the train is approaching the curve too fast by lights. And if still missed, an emergency brake should apply.

@@Ztbmrc1 I was taking this as a site specific issue , where on three occasions all in the black of night trains have sped into the curve ( I surmise from driver concentration or loss of spacial position on the route which is all fast running . ) At night alone in a cab peering into mostly virtual darkness is no fun especially if there are no route features such as girder bridges to alert you to where you are .. whilst this may not have been specifically highlighted in any of the enquiries held , without doubt the drivers did not intend to enter the curve at the speeds they did !! So by deliberation nothing had alerted them to shit Im about to enter the curve at 70 -80 mph which is generally route speed ..

@@Ztbmrc1 this combined with the fact the network is using older and older drivers to fill operating services , does not bode well as we get older holding concentration and recall of immediately previous info becomes difficult Im 65 and I notice a distinct drop off of concentration at night in the dark . I surmise temporary lack of concentration and route possition was a big factor . Fitting a system which links to the AWS TPS is complex. Probably classed as Cost prohibitive in installation . Where as as a trial this upgrade of a stand alone idea is cheap and can be installed at lineside without a full occupation . I agree that linking may be good but no action at all is not good !!!

@@andyrichards2569 The driver of the Royal mail train was pissed, so I guess no amount of warnings would have made any difference. Automatic braking may have helped though.

Hey, thanks!

Deltic #55011 was also named _The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers_ . It would be scrapped at Doncaster in 1982.

I was going to say that!!!

Well, if you really want to be pedantic, it was the 13th Deltic, because before D9000 you had the prototype Deltic - named Deltic - itself. D9011 / 55011 was the 12th PRODUCTION Deltic. :)

'Red for Danger' by LTC Rolt is an old classic but a most basic 'Bible' for how the railway rule book and safety systems learned from accidents and incidents. it is enthralling and eminently readable.

@@johnjephcote7636 Thank you!

@@dorian4534 is it common the interest in trains? My 6 year old is autistic and absolutely loves trains especially steam, have had to travel to York multiple times just to see the mallard (his favourite).

@@admiralsnackbar69 Yes, very! We love predictable routines, objects we can organize. Also, trains run on tracks, straight lines. It's visually soothing, which helps when the world is an incredibly unpredictable and overwhelming place.

Whoops hello, I'm on the spectrum and have been scratching my itch for public infrastructure disasters

Thank you!!