Train Struck Tractor

[Gordy1]

Train has struck a tractor on a crossing between Whittlesea & March in Cambridgeshire this morning. No more updates as yet.

 

[Adeptandy]

Train has struck a tractor on a crossing between Whittlesea & March in Cambridgeshire this morning. No more updates as yet.

That explains why the trains are quiet past here then

 

[holywell farmer]

Train has struck a tractor on a crossing between Whittlesea & March in Cambridgeshire this morning. No more updates as yet.

Well I certainly hope everyone involved is ok.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Cambridgeshire: Train driver injured in level crossing collision with tractor. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58269427

No one needed hospital treatment

 

[Adeptandy]

Well I certainly hope everyone involved is ok.

Think it was a freight train, so at least minimal people involved.

 

[delilah]

Hate crossing railway lines, had the jockey wheel on stock trailer dig into the bank as climbed the other side once, was only for a split second and extra revs but stomach churning.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Hate crossing railway lines, had the jockey wheel on stock trailer dig into the bank as climbed the other side once, was only for a split second and extra revs but stomach churning.

Need to lift it up next time when you've hitched trailer on

 

[Gordy1]

That explains why the trains are quiet past here then

No trains between Peterbough & Ely I understand, Incident is at Kisbys Level crossing between Whittlsea & March so I’m told.

 

[Nearly]

Well it's unlikely to be the train's fault.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Hate crossing railway lines, had the jockey wheel on stock trailer dig into the bank as climbed the other side once, was only for a split second and extra revs but stomach churning.

First year out of school and went carting grain for an arable farm.
Ford 5000 2wd and 8 ton trailer, up hill pull onto a crossing between fields, hit the timbers on the crossing and sat there spinning.
Only way to get over was to take a run at it, not a pleasant experience

 

[Gordy1]

Same happened to me when I was a teenager, approached the crossing incline with four wheel trailer full of straw bales & a wheel began spinning half on the level crossing couldn’t roll back off the crossing then remembered to engage the diff lock that pulled it across……phew got me going for a second or two.

 

[Gordy1]

Hate crossing railway lines, had the jockey wheel on stock trailer dig into the bank as climbed the other side once, was only for a split second and extra revs but stomach churning.

If it’s a user worked crossing always remember to use the phone to get the signalmans permission to cross & let him know when you have crossed safely & gates are closed, if you get stuck in the middle of the crossing phone the signalman immediately don’t mess about trying to move it.