Bridge bashing

[Michael Hodgson]

1 hour ago, GrumpyPenguin said:

As often as thought a suitable interval - I'm pretty certain NWR have suitable time intervals for checking other equipment on their estate, could start with say 3 months for the most vunerable 12 months for less vunerable and soon they would have some algorithms to go by.

 

Would probably be far less trouble than the mountain of paperwork to deal with from every bridge strike.

 

 

The paperwork for a bridge strike is mostly for the old bill and the court system, and of course the driver and his insurers.  The railway just has to send a qualified chap to go and inspect the bridge to confirm it's still OK, or very occasionally report what needs to be done to fix it.

[GrumpyPenguin]

29 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

Measure the bridge & take photos .... road resurfaced next day leaves regular inspection period for the bridge to get struck.

Oh, you do love a worse case.............

You seem to think that my "solution" would prevent bridge strikes 100%. Maybe then I should make it clear that my "solution" would help to prevent them.

Nothing is really 100% - you could park your car in the street instead of your drive in case a forcasted gale wind blows the tiles off your roof onto your car and then another vehicle collides with it.

[Wickham Green too]

3 minutes ago, GrumpyPenguin said:

Oh, you do love a worse case............. 

OK - AVERAGE case then : Measure the bridge & take photos .... road resurfaced half way through regular inspection period leaves half regular inspection period for the bridge to get struck.

[GrumpyPenguin]

3 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

The paperwork for a bridge strike is mostly for the old bill and the court system, and of course the driver and his insurers.  The railway just has to send a qualified chap to go and inspect the bridge to confirm it's still OK, or very occasionally report what needs to be done to fix it.

What a half baked comment !

 

No paperwork then between the ToC's & NWR regarding compensation to delayed passengers & then to the loss adjusters for the guilty vehicles insurers. Then there is the possibility of repairs to NWR property, their contractors. That's before everyone else passes the buck if the finger gets pointed at them - highway/local authority (could be local, regional or national), lets wheel TfL in too. Maybe a public works contractor has been given the job to update signage & not done it withing the alloctade time frame. All these organisations, all wanting to deflect liability (i.e. paying out).

 

In your haste to post something you missed quite a bit !

 

note : (& before anyone points it out) "paperwork" in this context could be electronic and stored on any form of media available.

[Nick C]

1 hour ago, Wickham Green too said:

Measure the bridge & take photos .... road resurfaced next day leaves regular inspection period for the bridge to get struck.

That could happen whatever your regime though - so the onus should still be on the council to inform NR, but at least a regular check reduces the risk, and demonstrates that you're being proactive...

[corneliuslundie]

Or replace all bridges by level crossings. Only OHLE strikes then. Much safer, of course . . . . .

Hat, coat . . .

J

[Hobby]

12 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

Or replace all underbridges by level crossings overbridges.

 

[TheSignalEngineer]

Hope this one paid accidental damage excess before turning left as he came out under the bridge by Chinley SB a few days ago. Photo from Peak Travel Watch on Facebook.

 

 Second incident this month, an artic had a container damaged doing the same move.

[TheSignalEngineer]

19 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Hope this one paid accidental damage excess before turning left as he came out under the bridge by Chinley SB a few days ago. 

Not sure of it's current ranking but before the RSJs were installed it was no.5 in NR's top hits chart.

[MarkC]

1 hour ago, corneliuslundie said:

Or replace all bridges by level crossings. Only OHLE strikes then. Much safer, of course . . . . .

Hat, coat . . .

J

Road vehicle drivers would only offend once, one would hope - the flashes & bangs before the line breakers tripped would put them off reoffending...

[Wickham Green too]

Maybe just string a 25kV line across in front of all low bridges then - save the cost of rebuilding as overbridges. 😉