BBC HORIZON (1972) - RAIL CRASH full documentary VHS to
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From my VHS to AVI collection this episode of popular series Horizon from 1972 - title RAIL CRASH.
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I am a bit of an ignorant dumb arse - but that interlocking signalling system is ingenious...
~18:00 +
I learned a bit more today, that I had forgotten about yesterday.
Ahhhhhhh 14:49 - two trains having a collision inside a tunnel.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh --- The modern trains "telescope" where one big long tube or carriage, goes through the guts of the carriage it runs into - There was a UK tube train and a USA new york subway train it both happened too....
Genius comes from simple disasters....
"Oppps didn't think of that."
New methods of control and regulation.
Great Description in movie.
"Finding new loop holes to squeeze through".