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Post by snoggle on Aug 27, 2016 16:45:07 GMT
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Post by M1104 on Aug 27, 2016 17:11:06 GMT
They used to do similar on the back of DRLs* back in the 90s but on skateboards. We did code reds every other day due to kids clinging on in the Clapham Junction/St John's Hill/Plough Road area on the 295. * step entrance predecessors to the LDPs |
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Post by vjaska on Aug 27, 2016 21:40:31 GMT
They used to do similar on the back of DRLs* back in the 90s but on skateboards. We did code reds every other day due to kids clinging on in the Clapham Junction/St John's Hill/Plough Road area on the 295. * step entrance predecessors to the LDPs I know someone who used to do about 10 years ago on the Brixton Hill routes - he stopped after he broke his arm doing it one day. |
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Post by thesquirrels on Aug 28, 2016 10:23:33 GMT
They used to do similar on the back of DRLs* back in the 90s but on skateboards. We did code reds every other day due to kids clinging on in the Clapham Junction/St John's Hill/Plough Road area on the 295. * step entrance predecessors to the LDPs I know someone who used to do about 10 years ago on the Brixton Hill routes - he stopped after he broke his arm doing it one day. This was a regular occurrence on the WAGN (now LO) line towards Edmonton of a morning around the turn of the millennium. My brother kept some interesting company.. I know the South London Lines were pretty notorious for it as well. I gather this was much more of a thing in the late 1980s/early 1990s. There is a local legend that someone on skates ended up sandwiched to their sorry end between two 279s on my native bit of Seven Sisters Road after clinging to the back of the front bus and screwing up - most Ms could hit 30 easily on the downhill there. I think that story comes with an element of embellishment - if the bus behind was close enough to cause that sort of situation then that's pretty serious negligence on the part of that driver. OTOH my father had cause to write a couple of serious complaints to LB about dangerous driving around his bicycle from E drivers, so they certainly weren't all angels there. My previous line of work as a cycle courier was pretty notorious for people hanging from vehicles to get 'a tow'. There has been an acceptance among them that buses have had the ability to 'hang' from them designed out as far as possible. |
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Post by T.R. on Aug 31, 2016 10:59:20 GMT
IIRC Class 465 units had their front ends modified to prevent train surfing.
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