Can't see a train, on a train track, how's a motorcyclist going to have a chance?

[J.A.W.]

Ban them.. they're always bloody hooning around at stupid speeds - recklessly endangering proper people in cars..

[tri boy]

Nearly got hit by a crazy train once.....:

I have had two score and ten hits, while listening to "crazy train".
Being found naked, up a tree talking to myself, proves that ..............well, fucked if I know actually

[trustme]

I have had two score and ten hits, while listening to "crazy train".
Being found naked, up a tree talking to myself, proves that ..............well, fucked if I know actually

Is this what is commonly termed PUI . Having polished off a couple of me mates Guineseessess we might be in the same boat.

[J.A.W.]

Is this what is commonly termed PUI . Having polished off a couple of me mates Guineseessess we might be in the same boat.

Whaaaa?
On a couple of cans of piss weak soapy ol' oirish dish bloody water? Get some hi-test Absinthe into ya.. then you climb on the ghost train..

[Scuba_Steve]

Trains obviously need to wear hi viz jackets so they can be seen!

They already do, there's a reason they all have yellow fronts now... Good thing it works so well ay

[J.A.W.]

S'pose they could paint a giant ghost face/death's head on it instead.. but that might make goths flock even more ardently..

[varminter]

There's a good one on the way to Whakatane just past the Kawerau loop. Got lights and allsorts. Most people, including me, go over at full noise but I have to say if one of those special trucks they use on rails failed to trip the warning bells/lights etc it could be a little worrying. having said that I'm sure anyone going real slow would be run off the road by the locals (seen it done)

[Edbear]

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...ectid=11511924

This may suit its own thread but in a similar fashion, these offenders are as bad as drunk drivers and should suffer the same punishments.

[Scuba_Steve]

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...ectid=11511924

This may suit its own thread but in a similar fashion, these offenders are as bad as drunk drivers and should suffer the same punishments.

texting, arguably yes; talking, no; watching porn, definitely

[Edbear]

texting, arguably yes; talking, no; watching porn, definitely

Every case should at least come under a careless driving charge. Obviously $80.00 and 20 demerits is no incentive.

[jellywrestler]

Being found naked, up a tree talking to myself, proves that ..............well, fucked if I know actually

was that you at the Cold Kiwi last weekend?

[jonnyk5614]

I just headed over the forgotten highway. Every single crossing is protected by a STOP sign. Now, I admit I didn't actually stop but I did slow and look. No-one else was though.

The reality is, our rail lines are used once a day so whatever people say about blind spots, overgrown hedges, etc.. is BS. They aren't looking because they can't be bothered. They've never seen a train there so assume there will never be one.


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[Maha]

I just headed over the forgotten highway. Every single crossing is protected by a STOP sign. Now, I admit I didn't actually stop but I did slow and look. No-one else was though.

The reality is, our rail lines are used once a day so whatever people say about blind spots, overgrown hedges, etc.. is BS. They aren't looking because they can't be bothered. They've never seen a train there so assume there will never be one.


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About the only thing you'll see on the track/get hit by down that way, is a golf cart..

[GrayWolf]

I just headed over the forgotten highway. Every single crossing is protected by a STOP sign. Now, I admit I didn't actually stop but I did slow and look. No-one else was though.

The reality is, our rail lines are used once a day so whatever people say about blind spots, overgrown hedges, etc.. is BS. They aren't looking because they can't be bothered. They've never seen a train there so assume there will never be one.


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the line along the forgotten highway is 'disused' due to that subsidence/collapse a few years ago,Kiwi rail cannot afford to fix, and shonkey wont cough up, although he would for a road. It's the line thats used by the tour operator using modified 'golf carts'. They have to manually operate the 'barriers' to pass the crossings.
as for cars being hit on Xing's? most of the time it's stupidity.... I nearly had one a few weeks ago at Otiahanga, barriers down, tosser decided to 'bash the lights' and drive round them. Hit the horn full blast, and the wanker stopped in the middle, either 'stunned/shocked' by the realisation, and/or stalled the bloody thing, close, but he got through. At 90km's? not ruddy chance of stopping in time, even at the 25-30km's I reckon i'd have ben still travelling at, it would do a lot of damage.
he had either wife/girlfriend in the car, I do hope he went home with at least one extra arsehole ripped open.

[jonnyk5614]

Many of the people on the forgotten will be tourists and won't necessarily know about the disused nature of the railway. None of the crossings have barriers.

And regardless, would you want some old biddy driving a 200kg buggy with 4 people on board into the side of you at 20mph?

And herein lies my point - drivers "assume" our branch lines are disused. It is why there are far more accidents at uncontrolled crossings here than in other countries. These lines often are not - it may be three times a week but three times a week, no-one will be looking for the train when it goes by.


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