Saving the Railwaymen
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- In one month alone on the Great Western Railway, nearly 1000 people were killed or injured at work. Foxfield Railway Museum Manager Anthony Dawson explains the early failings of railway safety and some of the changes that led to so many lives being saved.
You cannot imagine what life was like in those days and we moan now.Thanks you for another super informative video.
Nice insight. Thanks
BTF films from well into the 1950s show shunters running alongside a moving wagon to apply the handbrake.
Another excellent and informative video
Always gets me angry when people complain about 'elf & safety gone mad'. 'There was no elf & safety in my day. We just got on with it.' 😝
I had someone tell me that: they were complaining about the wearing of orange hi viz. "Didn't need it in my day, or this safety gear" when they had fingers missing from a hand due to an injury in the workplace! You couldn't make it up.
You can’t make it up!
The points made in this video are very valid. Sadly, health and safety measures *are* made to seem ridiculous when well-meaning but stupid people take them to extremes - like banning children from playing tag in a school playground - or as in the case of a senior police officer who stopped his officers from going into a waist-deep pond to save a boy from drowning - "because my oficers are not trained for water rescues." By the time the fire brigade arrived, the boy was dead - but the cop refused to admit that he'd done anything wrong.
And sadly nowadays here in the United States, rail companies are trying to downsize locomotive crews to save a few dollars but at the costs of safety.
i understand that accident on 15 sept 1830 was mainly caused by his illness?
The accident to Huskisson was through option paralysis. He saw Rocket coming; there was multiple offers of help, lots of shouting, lots of confusion. He grabbed at the nearest door to pull himself up, but the door swung open into the path of the Rocket.