The Narc wrote in message <9o0e4sk6jnnv7eoj0rp3iav2s53cdfqras@4ax.com>... >are you suggesting that we have special rear cars on every train on >the off chance that they are rear ended???? A friend was telling me that, long ago in the steam days, Irish Railways' research showed that the car damaged in a collision was usually the rear car. This was solved by removing the rear car from each train. Rgds Bill