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Mishaps
1537 Off the Road1607 Doing the Splits
3447 Off the Road
Heavy Shunts
1521 Suspended in the Air
4-Cep NºUnit 1521 gingerly balances with the front power bogie completely suspended in mid air after demolishing a set of buffer stops at the end of the viaduct over Ramsgate Road at Ramsgate when a shunt move went "horribly wrong" in 1987!
photograph by John Horton
You can see how serious the situation was - fortunately no one was injured in this shunting mishap.
photograph by John Horton
1537 Off the Road
4-Cep NºUnit Nº1537 off the road with the front bogie buried up to the axles in the sand drag after pushing back too far and demolishing the stop blocks on 22nd December 1985. Earth and sand everywhere!
photograph by John Horton
Nº1537 never was very fortunate at Ramsgate - here it lies at an acute angle after colliding with the stop blocks in "2 New Sidings" during an ECS shunt move on 17th September 1993. Fortunately no one was injured.
photograph by John Horton
1607 Doing the Splits
4-Cep Nº1607 tried going into the carriage shed at Ramsgate sideways during July 1989, but this didn't quite work.
photograph by John Horton
A different angle on the same problem!
photograph by John Horton
3447 Off the Road
Due to a misunderstanding, the Driver of 4-Vep Nº3447 thought he was propelling out onto the mainline when he was actually proplling into a sand-drag. By the time he realised, it was too late and 3447 finished up at this angle. Sometime in 1989.
photograph by John Horton
Heavy Shunts
Back in June 1979, 350 shunter 08648 was "minding its own business" berthed on the stops waiting its next turn of duty when a raft of loaded Whale wagons was propelled into it. The resulting impact demolished the stops and pushed 08648 into the ballast (it was buried up to its axle boxes) and derailed three of the whales. As the siding was adjacent to the main line it was decided to rerail the vehicles on three successive night possessions and the rerailing was dubbed, topically, by the Brighton staff as the "Save the Whale" campaign! Glen Woods took some photographs on 10th June 1979, after the rerailing was completed.
NºDB982427 was rerailed at 2:30am on 7th June 1979 and the picture shows the damage to the near end after it had been overriden by another vehicle.<.p>
photograph by Glen Woods
Nº08648 was rerailed 1:55am on 9th June 1979, which signalled the completion of this rerailing task. The damage to the front end steps is quite apparent.
photograph by Glen Woods
Another heavy impact, this time at Earlswood in what was, at the time, Redhill Parcels Concentration Depot (PCD) resulted in two Internal Users becoming derailed and adopting unusual poses!
A rather sorry looking Nº083303 is nearest the camera with Nº082277 behind it.
photograph by Glen Woods
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