this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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You can't park there, mate

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For all parking disasters, not just simple bad parking (for that see yplac.co.uk).

Also includes "you can't park there, sir" for the police equivalent.

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Original (full story in German): https://feddit.org/post/5322260

Derailment during a shunting operation, caused by the driver's negligence.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[–] GreatAlbatross 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] smeg 2 points 1 day ago

You sound just like the magistrate!

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles 1 points 22 hours ago

I think I have (eyesight) issues, thought that was a train set for second

[–] blackn1ght 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm surprised there's no buffers at the end of the tracks, the tracks look to just go right to the edge?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It looks like the dip in the ground is part of a transfer table that moves on top of the perpendicular rails. The original post said that the driver had requested to move to the transfer table, but was in the green locomotive, essentially driving in reverse (or forward but behind the blue loco) and couldn't see the end of the rails.

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They usually put a pile of ballast

Classic DB.