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I’m joggling across Rajasthan in a train and I’m sitting in a third-class compartment which actually is terrific, apart from the slightly shonky windows, it’s fabulous, it’s got three layers of seats, and you get two sheets and a pillow to lie down … what’s not to like.  Joanna Lumley’s India s1e3, ITV 2017

 

Today Delhi is clearly somewhere you can make it.  Its population is exploding.  And £280 million is being spent on a new monorail system.  ibid.

 

 

A daring thief [Edward Mongon] and his elite gang steal millions in freight.  Masterminds s2e16: The ConRail Boyz, History 2005

 

He was the greatest train robber America had ever seen.  ibid. 

 

 

The Intercity 125: a British design classic.  It still holds the world speed record for diesel.  Each of these high speed trains has clocked up more than nine million miles; that’s nineteen trips to the moon and back.  After more than forty years the 125s are now being replaced by newer foreign models.  Intercity 125: The Train that Saved Britain’s Railways, Channel 5 2018

 

This shining beacon of British engineering genius … It’s a homegrown hero with a secret history.  ibid.

 

It ended up saving Britain’s railways.  ibid.

 

On June 12 1973 the 125 prototype was on the test track.  ibid.

 

 

Every day’s a grind.  If it begins to feel like a countdown  this way in the morning, that way at night  then one day it’s done with: Life.  The Commuter 2018 starring Liam Neeson & Vera Farmiga & Patrick Wilson & Jonathan Banks & Sam Neill & Elizabeth McGovern & Killian Scott & Shazad Latif & Andy Nyman & Clara Lago et al, director Jaume Collet-Serra, bloke on train to Michael  

 

You can save a witness or your family.  ibid.  bad lady

 

 

This employee will be held accountable.  Unstoppable 2010 starring Denzel Washington & Chris Pine & Rosario Dawson & Kevin Dunn & Ethan Suplee & Lew Temple & Kevin Chapman & T J Miller & Jessy Schram et al, director Tony Scott, television news

 

We’re talking about a missile the size of the Chrysler Building.  ibid.  Miss Hooper

 

 

For over 200 years trains have changed our lives.  They reshaped our towns and cities with literally ground-breaking engineering. Inventions like The Rocket powered Britain’s industrial revolution and helped build an empire.  They ushered in an age of leisure tourism and luxury travel that we still enjoy today.  Ian Hislop’s Trains that Changed the World, Channel 5 2021

 

Britain became addicted to speed obsessed with moving people and goods faster and faster.  ibid.

 

The Flying Scotsman, the most famous locomotive of all time, running non-stop along the 393-mile route it cut the journey time between London and Edinburgh to just over 8 hours.  ibid.

 

Mallard: Its sleek curvy look announced a new era in high-speed train design.  ibid.

 

The [US] Zephyr was the first of the diesel-powered stream-liners.  ibid.

 

 

Transporting millions of people every day.  Inspiring classic creations of design.  And now building a new multi-billion-pound network.  Ian Hislop’s Trains that Changed the World II

 

Today, London is home to the largest construction project in Europe: Crossrail.  Digging up over three million tons of earth; creating more than 26 miles of new tunnels.  It’s building what will become the Elizabeth line.  ibid.  

 

So people were wading through the slurry to get to work.  Dodging the carts and carriages; navigating the streets was daunting … Railways engineers were asked for a solution … A radical idea: to run trains under the streets.  ibid.    

 

On 9th January 1863 in true Victorian style, a grand banquet of worthies was held in Farringdon Station to mark the official opening.  ibid.  

 

Metroland became somewhere for people to aspire to live.  Guide books were produced advertising it … This idea of the suburban life was suddenly within reach.  ibid. 

 

Nowhere in the world has been transformed because of it [railways] quite so much as Mumbai … one of the busiest commuter train systems in the world … The most severe overcrowding of any rail system in the world … One of the most dangerous in the world.  ibid.   

 

 

The biggest and busiest rail freight port in the UK is Felixstowe on the east coast of Sussex.  More than four million units are handled here every year, with sixty-six trains a day each hauling over two thousand tons of goods all over the country.  Ian Hislop’s Trains that Changed the World III

 

America has the largest rail network in the world.  With more than 150,000 miles of track; that’s enough to go round the Earth six times.  ibid.  

 

 

At the start of the twentieth century, 45 years after the death of Brunel, the Great Western had a problem: passenger numbers on the Great Western mainline were stagnating.  And investors were getting nervous … The holiday express was born.  Ian Hislop’s Trains that Changed the World IV

 

In the 25 years since the Channel Tunnel opened, UK passenger numbers have more than doubled.  ibid.    

 

 

London: rush hour, a train leaves Paddington station.  Another train approaches.  When two commuter trains collide investigators must discover what went wrong in the UK’s worst rail disaster in a decade.  Seconds from Disaster: Paddington Train Disaster     

 

They collide at a combined speed of over 200 kph.  ibid.

 

31 people are dead; and more than 400 injured.  ibid.

 

The automatic warning system has an inherent design flaw.  ibid.  

 

A difficult signal for a driver to see clearly.  ibid.   

 

 

The trouble with trains … what next for the railways? … Passengers are being welcomed back, but from March we’re going to have to pay more for the pleasure because fairs are about to go up, all hot on the heels of billions in taxpayer subsidies.  Is it worth it?  Tonight: The True Cost of Train Travel, ITV 2022

 

 

[George] Stephenson’s machine [Rocket] was the biggest news of its age.  Andrew Marr’s History of the World VII: Age of Industry, BBC 2012

 

 

A disaster doesn’t just happen in one moment.  Or on one day.  They are the result of years of missed warnings.  Missed or ignored.  James Nesbitt: Disasters that Changed Britain I: Paddington Rail Crash, History 2018  

 

The Paddington train crash  one of Britain’s deadliest rail accidents since the war.  ibid.    

 

On the morning of October 5th 1999 just outside London’s Paddington station two trains packed with commuters collided head-on.  The ferocious impact and deadly fire left over 400 injured and 31 dead.  ibid.

 

Southall crash: 130 people were injured and 7 were killed.  ibid.

 

SN109: the signal was difficult to see in normal conditions; and today had the low autumn sun shining directly upon it.  ibid.  

 

SN109 had just had its ninth SPAD.  ibid.  

 

 

February 2023: ‘The town is under a state of emergency after fifty train cars derailed causing a massive fire half a mile long.’  How Corporate Greed Destroyed East Palestine ***** news, Second Thought 2023

 

‘Well over 115,000 gallons of vinyl chloride.’  ibid.  news conference  

 

‘Breathing issues, tightness in our chests, severe headaches …’  ibid.  victim  

 

East Palestine Residents Report Health Problems After Train Derailment.  ibid.  Newsweek  

 

These amounts are nothing.  They are worse than nothing.  They are an insult to the people [Norfolk Southern] they just poisoned.  ibid.  commentary  

 

Between 2012 and 2014 North America was hit with a string of devastating trail derailments … labelled ‘bomb trains’.  ibid.  

 

Unions were sounding the alarm … [about] cutting costs and reducing the operating ratios for rail companies.  ibid.    

 

Safety is a cost that needs to be minimised.  ibid.    

 

Five major rail unions have stood in common sense opposition to this attempt to make railways even less safe … Rail companies use the piles of money they made by caring less about safety to influence policy and make sure that safety is even further reduced, and as a result, we suffer preventable catastrophic accidents.  ibid.

 

This train derailment wasn’t being talked about much … a media matter.  ibid.  

 

So long as the profit motive remains the driving factor, nothing will meaningfully change.  It’s time to nationalise the railways.  ibid.

 

 

It’s one of Britain’s most celebrated marvels of engineering.  A machine that stirs passion in legions of steam fans all over the world.  She’s the most famous and enduring locomotive on the planet.  Rob Bell, The Flying Scotsman: Pride of Britain, Channel 5 2018

 

In an action-packed life, The Flying Scotsman has played her part in the Second World War, defied attempts to scrap her and even bankrupted some of her owners.  ibid.  

 

One of the most beautiful and powerful steam locomotives ever built.  ibid.     

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