Ouch. HSB Level Crossing accident.

[Georgeconna]

 

[Westcorkrailway]

17 minutes ago, Georgeconna said:

 

Something similar to this happened during the  1953 IRRS/LRTL Irish narrow gauge railtour 

 

 

[lucas]

When I was young I was a passenger aboard a heritage train (in Belgium if I remember correctly) involved in such an accident. A few cars had already queued up at the crossing, but the car in question apparently thought they were just parked up and decided to overtake. How this individual passed their driving test I'll never know!

We were sitting in the back of the train so we hadn't realised what had happened until the guard told us. Little 8 year old Lucas was bawling crying thinking the locomotive had been destroyed. In reality the train was going at most 2mph as we were pulling into the station just beyond the crossing; once we disembarked we could see the only damage to the train was a bit of paint transfer on the buffer. Luckily nobody was injured, but the car came out looking a little worse for wear.

Edited Monday at 19:20 by lucas

[jhb171achill]

Colour pictures exist of this incident. Apparently, the loco crew and some passengers put the car the right way up again, and it was actually able to drive away, with the driver thankfully not having any injurioes beyond bruises and scratches....

[seagoebox]

17 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Colour pictures exist of this incident. Apparently, the loco crew and some passengers put the car the right way up again, and it was actually able to drive away, with the driver thankfully not having any injurioes beyond bruises and scratches....

And here it is !

[Mol_PMB]

Nice colour pic of the GSR liveried coach there too! Thank you.