Re: (Melb) Maribyrnong Siding

[L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au>]

Michael Kurkowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what a sight it would be, for some idiot to park too close to the railway
> tracks (and leaving the car there to do something else) for a loco to come
> along and push its way through, doing no damage to the loco but totally
> writing off the front end of the car! :-) Or, the drivers face as he sees
> this, or better still, the drivers face as he is watching it happen
> helplessly from across the road or something :-) Then hope the car is
> expensive, like a Merc, or a Porsche or something :-)

Reminds of an incident at Blackburn in the Seventies a down Bayswater goods
was shunting when they kicked shunted  a couple of loaded briquettes wagons
when the guard accidentally misplaced his footings only to see the wagons run
along to the buffer stop. Only trouble there  though was the siding ran
through a car park and that end of it never saw a train it was covered by
gravel so people parked their cars over it,  what a surprise they had when
they came home that night.
Davo

>
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
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