Pointless signs - Safe Removals

This with a bowler tip to Turbostar...

Safe Removals?

Indeed not.

Pointless signs - Cadogan Tate

With a bowler tip to Turbostar...

Cadogan Tate - "Everything handled with care"


Indeed not.

Eye salutes our brave and clever firemen!

This just in from 'Is 1A03 out of Chester yet, Bert?'...

Apologies if you've seen this before but it is definitely worthy of a wider showing.



Good effort!

Webbed fingers

Avoid Norfolk at all costs, if you plan to require the services of an ambulance.

This from the Norwich Evening News...

Ambulance bosses have defended their decision to use a new fleet of vehicles which are too big to go under some railway bridges.

The East of England Ambulance Trust has come under fire for purchasing new ambulance vehicles which are “taller” than existing ones.

Hopefully NR is seeking legal advice on whether individual members of the EEA Trust can be held accountable for the inevitable bridge bashes and resulting disruption?

Idiots

First... for shooting itself in the foot.

First Group runs rail services in the Bristol area (prop. Andrew Haines).

First Group also runs local bus services (prop. Nicola Shaw).

Here a picture, courtesy of Mathew White & the BBC, of a First Group bus wedged beneath a railway bridge in Station Road, Blackwell.

Perhaps Andrew could remind Nicola about the disruption caused by bridge strikes?

Carpo il diem

When a truck or lorry strikes a railway bridge the infrastructure owner (Network Rail or London Underground) is obliged to suspend rail traffic until a visual inspection of the damage can be made.

Last year such incidents led to 5,000 delay minutes to rail services on Network Rail alone.

In an attempt to address this NR is undertaking a trial in Ashton-under-Lyne using interactive signs (pictured below) that measure the height of approaching vehicles and alert the driver when their vehicle's height is too great.

Bugger this! thunders The Fact Compiler.

What's wrong with a dirty great girder across the road at the maximum safe height, either side of the bridge.

And if NR wants to pussyfoot around with new technology then why not add a laser cannon targeted at trucker head height?

That'll stop the bridge bashing, delay making, yorkee bar chomping toe-rags in their tracks.

Problem solved!