Tracks Disintegrated Under Intercity Train At 115 mph | Plainly Difficult

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I was working for rail enquiries at this point. About 6 months after the crash, the government ran adverts about how safe the rail network was. A good friend got a complaint call about this, where the complainant read the coroners report explaining the exact mechanism of death his brother suffered at Hatfield. And then the management wanted him to finish his shift. The bastards. This was while the rail network melted down over gauge corner cracking. It wasn't a good time to work for the railways, and a worse one to work for an employer like NRES. The legacy of this was basically the end of railtrack, as a private company, they had contacts with the train operating companies. The fines for causing effectively a meltdown of the timetable destroyed the company.

A serious problem was the cut backs on rail tappers. Some git in an office found out that they paid people to walk the lines and hit the rails and decided that was a waste of money and got rid of many of them. They could tell from the sound the rails made if there was an issue and would report the it. Still, if your job is in an office and have no idea what you're doing it might seem reasonable; even if railways have done this for 100+ years. Thank you John Major.

When you mentioned the dates I jokingly thought "Oh what did they do, outsource all their inspectors who then outsourced to subcontractors"? Turns out that wasn't far from the truth 🤦‍♂

A really dark period in UK railways. Lack if investment in the infrastructure but plenty money for the companies and their people.

There is more to this than you have been informed/reported. Someone I know used to work at British Steel in the metallurgy labs, said that the steel used was inappropriate for the application and would fracture. She recommended at much stronger (but more expensive) type of steel, but was overruled. This was many years before the accident...

I could imagine if they actually started to prosecute and jail these executives and managers and hold them accountable when people get killed in these preventable accidents that they would likely take more care and attention to what they are supposed to be doing with their big high paying jobs. The UK and the US seem to never really punish these guys

Wait... Balfour Beatty? Someone should probably tell Angry Cops. He's got a whole rant about Balfour Beatty falsifying military barrack repairs.

Hatfield 2000, Selby 2001 and Potters Bar 2002. I remember them well. I'd applied for a job with GNER just before Hatfield. I got the job and was going to Train Evacuation Training, implemented after Hatfield, on the day that Selby Happened. Imagine going in to the class room for that training and being greeted by those TV pictures from Selby. Potters Bar I wasn't working that day but it caused horrendous problems for several days after. Please spare a moment to think about all those killed, injured and involved in all these incidents. 🙏

One thing I really appreciate about your videos is how you list the names of those who are lost in the tragedies. They may have been lost, but you’re helping to ensure their memory lives on forever. Not only that, but you do so in such a way as to raise awareness to all the nasty little problems that lead to their tragic deaths. I’m sure lots of your viewers are engineers (or at least engineer brained types) who can make an impact with this knowledge.

There was a lady at work was on that train, all she says she can remember is she came too about 50 metres from the train having been thrown out. She has scars on her legs from the accident

Balfour Beatty is one of the major contractors who build/manage privatized military housing in the US (on base housing for military members is no longer built/owned/managed by the US government) and seeing their contribution to this incident does not surprise me in the slightest!

One good thing from this sad event was that Railtrack came back into public ownership where it, as any key public infrastructure, belongs. Be thankful that rail was not privatised like UK water was - with the crumbling, shitty (actually not metaphorically) situation now pervading.

This channel was juat recommended to me by a customer. Im a PSV Coach driver. I have to say well done the delivery was excellent.

Lucky (the nickname for the involved loco that also crashed at high heck) was a total nightmare 7 accidents before becoming a spares donor. That class 91 was truly cursed. I find it quite ironic that the thing that finally got her written off was a low speed collision with an azuma in the yard during driver training

Seeing a Plainly Difficult upload a minute after it's uploaded. This really is like Saturday morning cartoon watching as a kid.

Seeing PD post a UK train disaster is like the gold at the end of the rainbow

Thanks to your rail vids, I started paying attention to signalling and similar stuff now, too. Greetings from cool and inconsistent weather Hamburg, John, and have a great weekend!

Profits over safety again.

What got me on your channel years ago is the depth of information and humorous animations despite the subject matter. Then there's your friendly and honest outro, the way you pause to look out the window to mention the weather always makes me smile. And the shot of what I can only assume is thee window is what prompted this comment. Thanks for all you do.