On 13/11/2013 12:07, Gefreiter Krueger wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:26:42 -0000, SteveW
wrote:

On 05/11/2013 11:42, tony sayer wrote:
In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:05:34 -0000, Gefreiter Krueger wrote:

Here, it's the countryside - narrow lanes, etc, - that have the
lower
limits

How odd. I've never seen a lane with a limit on it,

Can't think of any around here either.

... and always thought it crazy that you could go faster on a narrow
road with blind bends than in a built up area on a straight with
excellent visibility.

Who will come of worse between a tractor and a car?

A large rabbit or even a pheasant can take out a headlight or smash a
radiator grill. A sheep would probably cause serious damage, roe deer
have long thin legs so will tend to get scooped up and have a good go
at coming through the windscreen. A red deer, probably will come
through the windscreen, you might survive...



Mate of mine had a new "ish" BMW written off by a wayward horse!..


A cow derailed a train once;!... 13 dead and 61 injured..

I remember that. I think that there was a bit of a fuss at the time as
the train was being run push-pull - pulled as normal to one end of the
line and pushed back to save moving the loco to the other end. I don't
know if that was to save time, effort or of there were no facilities for
running round the train at one or both ends of the line.

You mean it was being driven with no forward view?

Locomotives normally have the facility to be coupled together and
controlled from the cab of the leading one (multiple working) allowing
one driver to control multiple locomotives. In push-pull working, the
leading carriage has a cab built into it and the train is driven from
there when in push mode. Similar to the old 1950s Diesel Multiple Units
(DMUs) where one carriage had a pair of diesels under the floor and a
cab at one end and the other just had the cab and no engines.

SteveW