Re: Near miss at Meadowbank

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Did he definintely fall into the four-foot? Was the next train a
double-decker (not XPL, freight or whatever)?
Rgds
Ron BEST
Matthew Geier wrote in message <7bhnst$bt0$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>...
>In article <7bhlao$mdn14@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au>,
>Chris Stratton <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au> wrote:
>>Heard on the radio this morning that someone fell off the platform at
>>Meadowbank and only missed getting hit by stretching out between the
rails.
>>The only injuries received were from the fall from the platform. Must have
>>been a slim person as I didn't think there was much clearance under
current
>>trains.
>
> There isn't. I went to school with a guy who unsucessfully tried this
>trick on a dare in front of friends while drunk.
> He won't be trying that again, and his friends and the train crew needed
>counselling for some time afterwards.
>
> At Meadowbank the balast must have been flat (down to the sleepers) and
>the person rather thin, and heavy (high) rails. Cityrail practice is to
>have balast heaped rather high over the sleepers and the traction motor
>gear cases are not very far above rail height. There are also brackets
>and piping under the gondola as well, all things that could catch and make
>a rather nasty tear.
>
> That person was dammed lucky....
>