Off Topic Politics Thread (no personal schizzle)

Last year at secondary school. You probably didn’t go

 

I did, it was year 5....

I'm not daft you know.

 

I’ve only ever known it years 1-6 at little school
Then 7-11 at big lad school

 

A 15-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a bus crash in the south London borough of Croydon.

A double-decker bus is believed to have collided with a car, another bus and a bus shelter just after midday on Sunday, police said.

The teenage girl was a passenger on the double-decker.

She was treated by ambulance crews at the scene before being taken to a hospital in south London.

A number of other people were treated for minor injuries.

The male driver of the double-decker bus has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and is in custody at a police station in south London.

 

Leaf warning


Southeastern Railway will run a reduced timetable next week to cut the chance of accidents due to leaves on the line.

As autumn leaves begin to pile up on the ground, 50 million of them fall onto railway lines.

When mixed with rain and squashed by train wheels, they form a slippery layer on the rails like black ice on roads.

Many companies announced their autumn timetables at the end of September but Southeastern is bringing in a short-term amended autumn timetable during the "worst of the autumn weather" between 12 and 16 of November.

This means that some off-peak trains will call less frequently at 28 stations in greater London.


Among the places affected are Bexley, Deptford, Plumstead and West Dulwich.

Up to 6,000 passengers will be affected each day, according to the company.


50 million SEEMS LIKE A RANDOM GUESS TO ME.

 

Same old **** every ****ing year. They were blaming the leaves ( which, surprise, surprise, fall every year at this time) 30 years ago.

 

But was there 50m then?

 

I bet there used to be more leaves before the Great Storm. I reckon the weather did the railways a big favour by destroying 80% of trees in the South

 

Here's a tree that's not a leaf problem anymore;

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But the leaves are bigger now

 

I hope @PISKIE wasn't chained to it.

 

Well Sevenoaks was reduced to One Oak so are they 6 times bigger

 

Must be, if they can stop a train.

 

It appears @PISKIE had a lucky escape as a kid....

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So Piskie is a hobbit.

 

Thst year is was trees on the line!...

We had leaves, people, dogs, trees, just about everything on the line - except trains!

 

You been on the Sangria?

 

Nope...not had a drink in over 6 months...

I was serious...the line was closed for days because of fallen trees...

 

You can understand a tree stopping a train, but leaves..

 

Like the article says, the leaves compact on the line and the train wheels can’t grip. But this problem has been known for decades and still it persists.

Things are no better now ( maybe even worse) than 30+ years ago