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<blockquote data-quote="Len Matthews" data-source="post: 4792" data-attributes="member: 178"><p>I remember meeting Ian(Ginger) Sharples on the IOM in the late sixties. He had broken the rear brake cable of his Shadow so I offered the spare one I had with me but he declined-don't remember why. I believe he was in the British Transport Police as a draughtsman and, knowing I had an interest in railways,sent me a copy of a drawing he had made. This showed the outcome of a derailment at Ealing on the Western Region where an open battery box door of a diesel loco fouled some point mechanism resulting in considerable carnage </p><p> The upshot of this was resiting the hinges of the boxes at the top so that even if not fastened they could not swing downwards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Len Matthews, post: 4792, member: 178"] I remember meeting Ian(Ginger) Sharples on the IOM in the late sixties. He had broken the rear brake cable of his Shadow so I offered the spare one I had with me but he declined-don't remember why. I believe he was in the British Transport Police as a draughtsman and, knowing I had an interest in railways,sent me a copy of a drawing he had made. This showed the outcome of a derailment at Ealing on the Western Region where an open battery box door of a diesel loco fouled some point mechanism resulting in considerable carnage The upshot of this was resiting the hinges of the boxes at the top so that even if not fastened they could not swing downwards. [/QUOTE]
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