Even our disasters are minor

[bellinghman]

Train crash in Royston, not many hurt.

(OK, none hurt, none even close to being hurt.)

It could have been so much worse. The car rolled through a fence onto the platform and caught the back of a departing train, 'slightly scuffing' a carriage, and coming to a halt. If the train hadn't been there, the car would likely have rolled over the platform edge and been left grounded hanging over the gap. If one of the Cambridge Clippers (non-stop Cambridge - London) had come hurtling through, well, that would have been extremely messy.

Comments

[timill]

Weren';t even any delays - this happened at 06.52 this morning, and I was on the 06.58 ex Ely. We were 10 minutes late into KX, but that seems to be normal these days.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

A colleague comes in from Cambridge, and she says there was no sign of a problem either.

Mind you, she'll have been on a train later than yours.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of glad that I'm not commuting Camb->KingsX any more - that was the usual train I commuted to work on.

I hate to think of the pain that caused the rest of the commute trains given I've seen what happens when the 6:45 out of Camb->KingsX goes a little awry.