Originally Posted by RichardV6
Originally Posted by John V6
I Dad hit a cow near Churston driving a GWR saddle tank engine. Apparently it made quite a mess.
He also ran over someone who jumped out to commit suicide which was far less fun.

We had a neighbour who was a train driver on local service Liverpool St. to Southend and suffered at least one suicide death. Drivers get regular counselling on such deaths which happen more often than one might imagine.


In the old days you started as a cleaner basically cleaning the steam engines. Dad told me he once had to clean up from another driver hitting a cow. By all accounts it gets everywhere with all those rotating bits & bakes onto the warm bits.

JohnV6
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