Do they not have thick yellow lines on the platform these days? With a Do not stand over this line or something written in big bold yellow letters.
That was one of the first things i saw when i came back round. It's still a bit hazy to this day.
James Hall's Awful
This station is really old and had it all worn off. What I have noticed is they have some plastic bobbly stuff now and a fluorescent line now.Lorns wrote:Do they not have thick yellow lines on the platform these days. With a Do not stand over this line or something written in big bold yellow letters?
Beep wrote:I was too busy talking to notice I was stepping backwards until it was too late. The last word I said before falling was "Shit".Sput wrote:Sorry, but I have to ask: how do you fall off a platform? Is it not the single strongest thing to be wary of when you're at a station?
The Darwin Awards are calling. Who walks BACKWARDS on a platform TOWARDS the rails?!?!
A Heavily distracted teenager?Alexia wrote:Beep wrote:I was too busy talking to notice I was stepping backwards until it was too late. The last word I said before falling was "Shit".Sput wrote:Sorry, but I have to ask: how do you fall off a platform? Is it not the single strongest thing to be wary of when you're at a station?
The Darwin Awards are calling. Who walks BACKWARDS on a platform TOWARDS the rails?!?!
Just how heavily are we talking? What is there on a train station platform to distract you? Did you hear the word "Manchester" perchance?Beep wrote:A Heavily distracted teenager?Alexia wrote:The Darwin Awards are calling. Who walks BACKWARDS on a platform TOWARDS the rails?!?!
I'm sorry but that is absolutely superb! I echo others comments in how you manage to "fall" off a platform? Just be thankful that the platforms aren't that high at Berkswell else it could have been a lot nastier. Do be more careful in the future, if you can ever bring yourself to stand on a platform ever again.Beep wrote:I fell off the platform at a place called Berkswell and broke my wrist, I got myself up to find towering above me 2 police officers and Network Rail security and they tried to give me a fine. They said a max. fine of £8,000 and/or a custodial sentence, they wouldn't let me say I had fallen off, onto the track. In the end the police had said there lecture and I said I fell off and they just said "Oh" and then they called me an ambulance, because my wrist was swollen.Hymagumba wrote:sorry lorna but I've been sniggering at that for about 5 mins now. As revenge I'll let you have a good cackle about me breaking my wrist when I ran to ethusiastically tell my friend that I'd passed my driving test, and therefore was unable to drive for a fortnight.Lorns wrote:I haven't been on a train since i accidently fell out of one of those old British Rail type. I only broke my leg and arm when i hit the platform. I've been a bit wary of trains since then.
Good Lord!
Wait. Let me get this straight. You need a big yellow line to tell you not to stand close to the edge of the platform at a train station? Just how dumb are you?Beep wrote:This station is really old and had it all worn off. What I have noticed is they have some plastic bobbly stuff now and a fluorescent line now.Lorns wrote:Do they not have thick yellow lines on the platform these days. With a Do not stand over this line or something written in big bold yellow letters?
How distracted where you anyway? Was James Blunt singing 'You're Beautiful' while strumming a guitar with his knob?
Firstly, I was talking, and not paying attention.James H wrote:Wait. Let me get this straight. You need a big yellow line to tell you not to stand close to the edge of the platform at a train station? Just how dumb are you?Beep wrote:This station is really old and had it all worn off. What I have noticed is they have some plastic bobbly stuff now and a fluorescent line now.Lorns wrote:Do they not have thick yellow lines on the platform these days. With a Do not stand over this line or something written in big bold yellow letters?
How distracted where you anyway? Was James Blunt singing 'You're Beautiful' while strumming a guitar with his knob?
and that second comment is just
PS. It is 'were you' not 'where you'
Oh, do piss off. I'm on a train again, back from a very long and tiring day at a drama school, where I might or might not be offered a place, and I'm not in the mood to be corrected by a 15 year old busybody who can't even keep his feet on a bit of concrete without toppling off onto a set of rails.
At least when I went to get on the train there WAS ACTUALLY A TRAIN THERE. Oh - and I wasn't a "Heavily Distracted teenager", whatever the hell one of those is (read: fuckwit).
At least when I went to get on the train there WAS ACTUALLY A TRAIN THERE. Oh - and I wasn't a "Heavily Distracted teenager", whatever the hell one of those is (read: fuckwit).
