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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 13, 2014 15:29:18 GMT 12
Click on each photograph in turn to read the original and updated versions of the news story.... 
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Post by jonesy on Oct 13, 2014 16:11:05 GMT 12
Ha ha yeah saw this on the news over here...only an idiot would try this! Nothing worse for a resources company over here having its load delayed thats for sure. The trains leaving our site have 4 locos and 240 carriages, each holding 130 tonnes of ore. That takes a lot of stopping! Those muppets were lucky to get out of that alive, but it will cost them a packet, good job...
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Post by delticman on Oct 13, 2014 16:40:52 GMT 12
I must remind you that carriages are for hauling passengers. Any freight such as iron ore is carried in wagons, sometimes other names but never carriages.
Freight and Passenger trains run on Railways, not Train Lines and if you are a passenger wanting to catch a train, you go to the Railway Station, not the Train Station.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 13, 2014 17:35:39 GMT 12
Which bit is the caboose?
Google Maps beg to differ with you, I have noted some of the stations in Auckland are Railway Stations and some are Train Stations.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 13, 2014 17:53:40 GMT 12
Train Stations is American.
We speak English in New Zealand.
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Post by jonesy on Oct 13, 2014 18:48:17 GMT 12
I must remind you that carriages are for hauling passengers. Any freight such as iron ore is carried in wagons, sometimes other names but never carriages. Quite right... I stand corrected. Should know better! |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 13, 2014 18:51:17 GMT 12
However, if we spoke American instead of English, then we would refer to CARS being used for both freight and passenger cartage.
American is basically a lazy language. They don't even know how to spell COLOUR correctly.
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Post by nzjet on Oct 13, 2014 19:26:07 GMT 12
Who freaking cares. We ALL know what is being talked about
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Post by isc on Oct 13, 2014 20:39:34 GMT 12
And we think 30 90 ton coal waggons is a big train, and even that has no trouble wiping out a truck.
look at some of the other sites that come up when you click on the photos, some good aviation news. isc
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 14, 2014 20:06:24 GMT 12
Ooooooh.....the Feds are going to nail this bloke's rear-end to the wall!! • Disgruntled employee steals train(Gillette News Record, Wyoming, USA — Sunday, October 12, 2014) |
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Post by jonesy on Oct 14, 2014 21:39:02 GMT 12
Ha ha ha...the thing about stealing a train is that they pretty much know where youre going, I dont seem to recall any event of "missing" trains in the past.
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Post by delticman on Oct 14, 2014 22:37:52 GMT 12
I've heard of trains and locomotives (or the engine) going walk-about in New Zealand.
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Post by jonesy on Oct 15, 2014 0:10:01 GMT 12
Certainly heard lots when I was growing up about the "bad old days" of NZ Railways with freight consignments not always guaranteed to turn up, or missing the odd parcel here and there, and seen plenty of NZR tarps used for a multitude of purposes...
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 25, 2014 11:27:05 GMT 12
Check out the clown on the bike....
That footage was apparently taken in Napier earlier in the week. The scarey thing is that I had a collision with a cyclist on the level crossing in the immediate foreground in the video clip way back in about 1987. I had just taken over a Wellington to Gisborne passenger train and had departed from Napier, heading home to Gisborne and a cyclist rode her bicycle across the tracks (ignoring the level crossing alarms) and was hit. Fortunately, she survived it, although she ended up with permanent brain damage. Her bike was totally munted. Not nice.
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Post by suthg on Oct 25, 2014 12:14:00 GMT 12
Blxxdy idot!! Your experience - not nice for the driver either...
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Post by phil82 on Oct 25, 2014 12:26:32 GMT 12
However, if we spoke American instead of English, then we would refer to CARS being used for both freight and passenger cartage. American is basically a lazy language. They don't even know how to spell COLOUR correctly. Nor "humour"!! |
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Post by phil82 on Oct 25, 2014 12:38:53 GMT 12
Certainly heard lots when I was growing up about the "bad old days" of NZ Railways with freight consignments not always guaranteed to turn up, or missing the odd parcel here and there, and seen plenty of NZR tarps used for a multitude of purposes... I like trains of the passenger kind, especially steam trains [engine or locomotively powered] and have some great memories of going home on leave on units such as "The Flying Scotsman". There is something in all of us that loves hurtling along at 100 plus MPH and hearing that engine working hard. At that time, I always imagined British Rail to be reasonably efficient, if somewhat overmanned like all government run organisations. Generally, BR operated to a recognizable time-table and got you where you wanted to go. Now , due to the wonders of privatisation, train services in the UK are fabulously expensive and are regularly fined for lateness. I have to note that having travelled on largely smoke-free and rattle-free trains in the UK , my first experience on the "Rattler" from Auckland to Wellington was a bit of an eye-opener.  |
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Post by isc on Oct 27, 2014 1:00:38 GMT 12
When I was with Rex Aviation at Taieri, NZR lost an IO - 470 for about 6 weeks between New Plymouth and Dunedin, after that we used Rex's 182 with a large cargo door, and flew our engines both ways, was not long until we had our own engine shop at Momona.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 27, 2014 13:19:04 GMT 12
I can beat that. Back in the late-1970s, they lost a railway wagon off the end of one of the wharfs at the Port of Napier (it was the wharfies shifting wagons with a tractor who did it, not a NZR crew). A diver was sent down to attach a strop to the wagon so they could haul it out, but he discovered heaps of railway wagons down there. Some of those wagons had been missing from the system for decades! We (the workers at the coalface) thought it was hilarious, although the bosses didn't. One really has to wonder what the situation was at other ports around the country.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 27, 2014 13:54:54 GMT 12
Astounding!
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