bungle Posted 5 May, 2009 Posted 5 May, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/8029491.stm Unless I am missing something, both these trains were travelling along a single track line TO Aberystwyth, but still managed to collide head on. I do not understand how this could happen?!
Pancake Posted 5 May, 2009 Posted 5 May, 2009 Looks like ****e reporting from the BBC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abermule_train_collision The crash arose from misunderstandings between staff which effectively over-rode the safe operation of the Electric Train Tablet system protecting the single line. A train departed carrying the wrong tablet for the section it was entering and collided with a train coming the other way.
Pancake Posted 5 May, 2009 Posted 5 May, 2009 The crash happened when an express train to Manchester from Aberystwyth collided on a single track with a train travelling from Whitchurch, Shropshire, to the Ceredigion seaside town. Is what it should say.
bungle Posted 5 May, 2009 Author Posted 5 May, 2009 Well then, that clears that up. I have e-mailed the BBC.
Pancake Posted 5 May, 2009 Posted 5 May, 2009 Well then, that clears that up. I have e-mailed the BBC. Ditto!
bungle Posted 5 May, 2009 Author Posted 5 May, 2009 I did once managed to get a BBC Sport article changed, so I feel we could see a change to this confusing article!
Hatch Posted 5 May, 2009 Posted 5 May, 2009 I did once managed to get a BBC Sport article changed, so I feel we could see a change to this confusing article! Hope they do it tonight before I go to bed. I'll be up all night worrying otherwise
bungle Posted 5 May, 2009 Author Posted 5 May, 2009 Hope they do it tonight before I go to bed. I'll be up all night worrying otherwise Just think of all the people left in a state of confusion when they get home from work and read this article. We can only hope it is altered by 6pm.
Pancake Posted 5 May, 2009 Posted 5 May, 2009 Woot for change! The crash happened when an express train from Aberystwyth to Manchester collided on a single track with a train travelling from Whitchurch, Shropshire, to the Ceredigion seaside town.
bungle Posted 5 May, 2009 Author Posted 5 May, 2009 (edited) Success! I got a nice e-mail from the BBC also! Edit: Just noticed in my e-mail the BBC chap said the train from Shropshire to Aberystwyth would be travelling "East-bound". I have corrected him on his further error! Edited 5 May, 2009 by bungle
Wilko Posted 6 May, 2009 Posted 6 May, 2009 That's exactly the sort of innacuracy I'd expect from the BBC. At a local level, it's doing a bad job of reporting a lot of news, while putting many hard-working honest local journalists out of business. Start using the local newspaper websites instead of the BBC - they're more interesting and will have more stories about your town.
TopGun Posted 6 May, 2009 Posted 6 May, 2009 That's exactly the sort of innacuracy I'd expect from the BBC. At a local level, it's doing a bad job of reporting a lot of news, while putting many hard-working honest local journalists out of business. Start using the local newspaper websites instead of the BBC - they're more interesting and will have more stories about your town. And still make plenty of mistakes. I placed a press release about some public exhibitions last week in Selby, Yorkshire. The story was the front page lead in the local paper as it has the potential to create 1,000 jobs but the journalist got the dates the wrong way around for the two venues meaning I had to organise a bus shuttle on both days to take people to the right place. Another newspaper announced that the project (which is a proposed new renewable energy plant) has the potential to save 1.85 tonnes of CO2 annually! All they had to do was paste 1.85m tonnes from the press release...
Wilko Posted 6 May, 2009 Posted 6 May, 2009 And still make plenty of mistakes. I placed a press release about some public exhibitions last week in Selby, Yorkshire. The story was the front page lead in the local paper as it has the potential to create 1,000 jobs but the journalist got the dates the wrong way around for the two venues meaning I had to organise a bus shuttle on both days to take people to the right place. Another newspaper announced that the project (which is a proposed new renewable energy plant) has the potential to save 1.85 tonnes of CO2 annually! All they had to do was paste 1.85m tonnes from the press release... Silly northerners. That would never have happened at my paper. As an aside - using a press release on the front page is laaaazeeee journalism.
TopGun Posted 6 May, 2009 Posted 6 May, 2009 Silly northerners. That would never have happened at my paper. As an aside - using a press release on the front page is laaaazeeee journalism. Had they used the release they would have got it right. They adapted (meddled) with it and screwed it up!
Marsdinho Posted 6 May, 2009 Posted 6 May, 2009 But did both trains leave at the same time, and were they going the same speed....
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