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Originally Posted by Mike Harte
Yes, Mike, Network Fail managed to cock up yet again.
It is well known that the steam and smoke being emitted by a steam loco has the potential to set off false alarms in terminus stations, so standard procedure is that parts of the alarm system are disabled during the period that the loco is on site.
However, Network Failed to do so yesterday, thus causing unnecessary inconvenience (with one passenger panicked) and multiple train journeys delayed. All because of the wrong type of steam!
You couldn't make it up!
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The obvious answer is to ban steam locos on the railways.
Just like the solution to the problem of stabbings - banning sales of knives to under 18s - has been so successful in reducing knife based crimes.
The genius judge who, reportedly, suggested round ended knives as a less dangerous sort of knife that might help to solve the problem should probably be promoted to somewhere restful and away form decision making. There he could come up with new designs for other potential weapons. Redesigned screwdrivers perhaps. Or maybe even some sort of social development that identifies the source of the apparently growing knife problem and goes some way towards eliminating it.
That's probably too much to expect these days. Especially at it seems not to have been something practised much in recent decades.