3:52 when he couldn't have a cup of tea, this is when things went really wrong

How unlucky was that second chap? Attacked twice by minature thugs wielding rocks & air rifles. Nearly hit a confused old dear, then has a spad on his first tour of duty!!!!

This is probably one of the interesting and well put together railway training videos out there!

Have to feel sorry for these guys. None of them was lazy or bad at their job, just simple human factors at play.

Having worked in Sydney Signal boxes the demand of 12 hour rotating shifts without proper protocol for toilet or meal brakes , employee fatigue was and still is a real concern.

Commentary aided driving; one of the best initiatives for new drivers. Helps the instructor/ trainer as much as the driver.

There are lessons here for all walks of life involving moving into danger without realising. This vid deserves a wider audience.

Signal Passed At Danger

4:53 "bastard" XD

He's went from Whole Lotta Love to SPAD risks!

SPAD’s happen EVERY MINUTE on the ROADS

That signal at the end of the platform at Stirling was both improperly maintained and impossible for the driver featured to see coming away from the platform at night: All to do with night vision adjustment time having been exposed to platform lighting. The oil lamp on the semaphore signal also did not appear to be working and illuminating the red / green aspect the signal provides alongside the visual up or down / level indication. Very interesting video :o)

Dave Boyce is still train driving in Wales! According to his website, he writes poetry as well

The guy at 17:00 sums up a lot of industries right there, not just railways. When people are so used to everything running without issue, when something is different, it doesn't register.

An important and difficult subject, treated with sensitivity.

thank you for uploading this,its a good topic for conversation and one of my friends relatives is a driver. i know he will find this interesting and helpful.

No driver sets out to SPAD and it takes a very real toll on your personal physiology. Any rail investigator will tell you that any incident is always because of the failure of a number of things as this video shows. The hardest part of preventing SPADs is getting drivers to open up when they've got personal problems. The former CEO of my railway started out as a driver on the London Underground. I started driving trains in Sydney in 1984. Even though we started in railways on opposite sides of the world we were both told the same thing..."When something is going wrong then STOP and take a moment to think about the problem". Drivers need to recognise: 1. when things are getting on top of them 2. if something has gone wrong then don't make it worse by trying to keep going or cover it up and 3. if you're having personal issues please ask for help, no-one will think less of you and most will admire it for you. I always tell my drivers "It's easier to explain a delay than it is to explain a derailment or worse". There is a belief out there at least on my railway (not always unwarranted) that they'll hang you for causing a delay. If the delay is for no real reason then you deserve to be hung but if there was a very good reason then nobody can touch you. The fact is that SPADs cost a railway a lot of money whereas a delay is an inconvenience. Losing an experienced driver who made a mistake and has learnt their lesson means that the organisation is not learning and will keep making the same mistakes.

4:21 That's the same guy who presents these videos and it's hilarious how he's putting on a scouse accent here to add to the anger lol

i think steve was actually messing with the buzzer. i mean just look at his weasle-y face.

When all is said and done the most important thing for a driver to have is an incontinence pad

Robert Plant has taken a bit of a change of career I see

That platform starter at Stirling (signal 70),looked a bit of a bastard & poor to sight when coming out of the brightly lit station environment. Could have certainly benefited from being converted to a co-acting or even better a colour light.

The Penarth incident, with reverse curves, why no banner repeater signal? A fixed distant signal isn't enough.

I did think that after such a traumatic incident as the stone-throwing one the driver should have had about a month or two off before being invited to return.

Spad - Signal Passed At Danger!

Nonetheless, in each of these cases, the driver reacted in a textbook manner. Emergency brake....stop.....check....report. As for the little shits with the air rifle, what were they aiming at? Signals? Trains? People are human. They bring human weaknesses to work, and considering how few major incidents we have on railways, it is a restatement to their professionalism. In fact, I think I’m right in saying most if not all of the injuries and fatalities recently have come from rail failures.

The poor guy who had the rock thrown at him.

What a great vid. Very thoughtful and clear.

That buzzer problem would be enough to distract lesser people trying to drive a train. Hope that all the drivers depicted here have had successful careers and not dwelled on these incidents to a point that it eats away at their mental state

As a motorman on Southern Region, I ALWAYS thought you should KNOW YOUR ROAD ! Never mind chavs chucking things on the line, or shooting airguns, my job was to drive safely and protect my crew and passengers. I feel sorry for Bernie though, but with the way it is now, the Train Operating Company will put points on your driver's licence, even though something may not be your fault. They will also get rid of you if you have too much time off as a result of an incident. SouthEastern Trains and sister Southern are notorious for this sort of thing. Glad I'm retired. Don't bother even applying for a job on the failway now. It's full of red tape, arsewipes, and backstabbers galore.

Great video

"As the man argued" That man is you mr tyreman!

stellar acting, endearing really

As far as the driver in Wales is concerned, sadly these incidents aren't uncommon. The two young lads should have faced some kind of sentence through the courts and Crown Prosecution Service.

It would be better if the guard could still look out after the doors shut,he might well have thought "bloody hell it's red!" given one on the bell or "dropped the handle" and perhaps they'd have stopped in time.On many newer units this is no possible, such as 375s and 377s. But all three,driver,guard, and platform staff should've checked the signal aspect. I ALWAYS checked that before moving,and NEVER had a SPAD. They were lucky no damage was done. That DRA Driver's Reminder Appliance thing wasn't much use as it can be overridden.

Driving on Valley Lines sounds like not a job for the faint-hearted, lol:) People chucking rocks, wandering on the track, sheep...seriously...

I would say for the first driver. The delays of both trains and the lack of a break to refresh plus the distraction lead to his train doing a SPAD. The second incident though. I felt sorry for the poor driver because of eejits tossing a rock at his train (which could have killed him if it made contact!) and the woman on the tracks and the sheep incident was all stacked against him. The faulty buzzer unless the guard was doing that stupid and potentially dangerous prank and the poor driver going through a divorce which can be messy was the result of the third SPAD. They are all human and are prone to making mistakes as well like the rest of us. Though thankfully none resulted in a crash.

Sorry, don't read this just a personal note First one, 4:45-5:20 Second one 19:30-20:00 Third one 21:20-22:15

I know absolutely nothing about driving a train (we call it "engineer" here on the "other side of the pond" [I learned that term, too]). At any rate, I find these captivating. Thank you so much for sharing.

Paul Tyreman he has done loads of videos

There has been a number of incidents of trains being hit by children throwing stones in the South Wales Valleys Some idiot dragged a rail greaser onto the track at Llanbradach a few years ago late at night. A two car Pacer train hit it but very fortunately deed not derail.

So spuds are good, SPADs are bad. Got it.

In the first spad incident if there was a guard light that illuminates when the platform starting signal is not at danger then it would have been avoided. We have this guard light here in sydney

100% correct !

Why is there no audible voice warning for the prior signal in the cab that is required to be turned off. its much harder to miss such than a mere reset button or such.

I love that ERTMS is kind of the IPv6 of the railway

No mention. Of the newton or belgrove train crash. In in Glasgow the the early 90s

signal passed at danger!

Semaphores seem quite hard to read at night - they should be converted to light signals or at least have extra lighting provided in front to make it extra clear

yes!

when I was a fireman at Saltley , SPADS did happen

Wessex Trains is now called GWR.

Only a buzzer on the cab to cab don't get wound up lol

21:33 "Oh shit!" Actually surprised they allowed that in an official training video. Well put together though!

4:20 That was a mistake on the part of the dispatcher and conductor. The guy on the platform arguing with the platform staff is Paul Press Tyreman.

HELLO STEVE, HELLO!!! good god...

I feel for these brave guys. Here is a fact. I see driving trains as a greater responsibility than flying a plane. If something goes wrong on landing, a pilot has the choice to go around. A train driver gets one chance and two options... go or stop, can't turn left, can't turn right. In the UK, I feel very safe riding by train, which I do a lot.

Flying Scotsman!

his name is Paul Tyreman he has done many videos too many to mention to be honest :)

Any footage of the Newton train crash in 1991 ?

Good One Network Rail/Railtrack

since this clip was filmed, Scotrail is now owned by Obelio, Valley Lines is now owned by Arriva Trains Wales/ Trenau Arriva Cymru and Centro (apart of Central Trains) is now owned by London Midland.

You should emblement “Automatic Train Stops” like they have in Toronto and New York City subways. You pass a red signal the trains brakes are automatically applied! And the signals should have repeaters and timers on a curve.

17:20 That's my uncle!

What about Repeater signals? Britain dosen't have those?

Max did everything properly

I'm yet to see one of these videos that doesn't have Paul in them at some point. That guy gets around.

Honestly, the only places semaphores belong in the 21st century is on heritage railways.

The thing is for the last guy. The guard calling as a Buzz not a Beep.

9:06 omg she was still the customer services director of Arriva Trains Wales until it went defunct in late 2018!

This film looks around 2004, interesting to see them talking about ERTMS

4:22 is that the Man himself

Narrator was Paul Press Tyreman,aka Class 180 man

time Table is King, and when it goes wrong, the ones who made the descions aren't in the dock

Not once through the whole video did the mention of rostered shifts come up

Poor maxwell :(

Never go on the track unless you have to.

Do other people have dreams nightmares about SPADs? I have the common dream/nightmare of been at work and I experience SPAD. I also have the other dream of people jumping in front of my train but that another story. I love this job but it the only job I've ever had that literally gives me nightmares.

It’s not very likely to happen to me. I don’t drive trains! But I wish I did.

How the hell are we arguing about them missing literally unseeable signals? The stirling one: not easy to see The second one: literally no way to see it. It has nothing to do with train technology as outlined by one guy and I doubt very much so it has anything to do with age and experience as outlined by the woman or complacency.... poor signal maintenance, poor signal placing, poor track side maintenance are to blame for these. not the drivers. Only the last one is to really be blamed on the driver, but the previous two? nah.

should not have been given ra by platform staff and guard should not have gicven clearance, rule book stuff

21:50-----"...I have fu up basically." :-D

I can tell who that angry passenger was...I know it was an actor, but it's Paul Tyreman again... Scotrail, ONE Anglia, First Great Western and LOROL hired him for A LOT.

That thumbnail is just soooooooo scary

pretty sure the narrator was the 'angry passenger' that was arguing on the platform. He's done a few of these types of videos - anyone know who he is?

SPAD? Does that stand for ''Signal Passed At Danger''?

Poor gordon :(

Really feel sorry for that 2nd driver

i get that spads could lead to people getting killed and have resulted in so but why do they overhype them "the drivers recount something theyd much rather forget" then they proceed to re enact a spad where they wiggle a few feet past the light but nothing else happened kinda anti climatic i mean ok this one was a little more serious but what actually happenns after this cause the narator makes out that they have harrowing and traumatic expiriances just from going over the light by a verry small amount

What are those dings you can hear in National Rail and Overground trains? The ones that sound approximately every minute?

that woman at 9:05-9:52 makes me think SPADS are good!!

2004 I think

150126 that went to great western and now its northern

He wouldn't be doing 50MPh beacause there's a bleeding 40MPh speed limit!

Do you ever get railway companies calling Signal And Or Points Set Incorrect as SAOPSI? Well Henry the Green engine from the Railway Series/Thomas and Friends had a “SAOPSI” when he was pulling the flying kipper. Or is the technology just so advanced these days that “SAOPSIs” may never happen at all?

its scotrail but it has valley lines

Poor Max he had incident after incident lol

Did those kids have it in for that guy?

The angry passanger is paul from fgw

I'm surprised that nowadays we don't have the technology to ensure that trains can't run red lights: automated/computer-controlled communication between the signalling system and the train hardware. Maybe in years to come we will (even driverless trains), or maybe in principle we do now, but cost is prohibitive.