395 still not re-railed after 2 months

[M***@DastardlyHQ.org]

A visual demonstration of everything thats wrong with the UK rail industry and
this country in general

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Post by M***@DastardlyHQ.org
A visual demonstration of everything thats wrong with the UK rail industry and
this country in general
http://youtu.be/AGfTq5TuitE

A few years ago we took a train from Guayaquil to Quito, and spent quite some time in the observation car at the back. One day our carriage derailed - it was an unpleasant and even alarming experience as the coach rapidly bumped up and down as the wheels went over the sleepers making a lot of noise, but after maybe 20 metres the driver or maybe guard noticed something wrong and commanded an emergency stop, so we ground to a halt. I thought, remembering typical British treatment of derailments, that we would be stuck there, in the middle of nowhere, for hours or even days and I wondered how they would cope with us passengers in the mean time.
To my surprise the passengers in the derailed coach were asked to move forward but we could still see what was going on. The team pulled out of the locomotive what I can only describe as a grooved steel ramp and lugged it to the back of the train - this is actually the part that took longest as it was quite a long train and a quite heavy ramp. They then put it on the ground very carefully just ahead of the derailed bogie so that the grooves would guide the wheels back up tge slope and on to the rails again. Then via walkie-talkie they got the driver to move the train very slowly forward. Amazingly the bogie wheels came up the ramp as they were designed to do and dropped on to the rails again. After no more than 30 minutes we were on our way again. They had obviously done this before. Given the track quality in Ecuador I wasn't entirely surprised but it was good to know that they knew how to handle it efficiently. I suppose derailments are handled so badly around here as they
are rather rare events.

This isn't the one I recall but:

The version I recall was a longer video with the derailment occurring
while the train was passing along the main street of a small town.

[M***@DastardlyHQ.org]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:54:34 -0800

Post by M***@DastardlyHQ.org

A visual demonstration of everything thats wrong with the UK rail =

industry and

this country in general
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A few years ago we took a train from Guayaquil to Quito, and spent quite=

some time in the observation car at the back. One day our carriage =
derailed - it was an unpleasant and even alarming experience as the coach=
rapidly bumped up and down as the wheels went over the sleepers making a=
lot of noise, but after maybe 20 metres the driver or maybe guard =
noticed something wrong and commanded an emergency stop, so we ground to =
a halt. I thought, remembering typical British treatment of derailments,=
that we would be stuck there, in the middle of nowhere, for hours or =
even days and I wondered how they would cope with us passengers in the =
mean time.

If it had been left up to british workers the train would probably still be
there.

[Ulf_Kutzner]

Post by M***@DastardlyHQ.org
A visual demonstration of everything thats wrong with the UK rail industry and
this country in general
http://youtu.be/AGfTq5TuitE

A few years ago we took a train from Guayaquil to Quito, and spent quite
some time in the observation car at the back. One day our carriage
derailed - it was an unpleasant and even alarming experience as the
coach rapidly bumped up and down as the wheels went over the sleepers
making a lot of noise,

This is bad nowadays with freight trains and concrete sleepers
as the driver might not notice.

but after maybe 20 metres the driver or maybe
guard noticed something wrong and commanded an emergency stop,

No way for passengers to do so?

so we
ground to a halt. I thought, remembering typical British treatment of
derailments, that we would be stuck there, in the middle of nowhere, for
hours or even days and I wondered how they would cope with us passengers
in the mean time.
To my surprise the passengers in the derailed coach were asked to move
forward but we could still see what was going on. The team pulled out
of the locomotive what I can only describe as a grooved steel ramp and
lugged it to the back of the train - this is actually the part that took
longest as it was quite a long train and a quite heavy ramp. They then
put it on the ground very carefully just ahead of the derailed bogie so
that the grooves would guide the wheels back up tge slope and on to the
rails again. Then via walkie-talkie they got the driver to move the
train very slowly forward. Amazingly the bogie wheels came up the ramp
as they were designed to do and dropped on to the rails again.

Was that similar (besides being one side only) to
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?

Regards, ULF