The Trains The derailment on the Wirral Line between Liverpool Central and Lime Street this evening. Thankfully there were no casualties or massive injuries and I hope the pensioners who suffered from shock get well.
That said.
The incident did afford the opportunity to see Jane Hill and her cohort on BBC News 24 trying to get to grips with the information as it came in from interviewees and emergency services. Somehow for the first twenty minutes they referred to the Merseyrail network as an underground, the London tube being their obvious frame of reference. Luckily an expert was on hand to set them straight -- I'm paraphrasing the interview in the style of a pub conversation after many beers.
Jane Hill: So is an underground.
Expert: No.
Jane Hill: But it goes underground, ri
Expert: Yes. But no the 'ole thing.
Jane Hill: So it is an underground.
Expert: Jus' bits of i. In the city cennre.
Jane Hill: Huh?
Expert: There are five stations in the ... in the ci'y..
Jane Hill: 'An they're unnerground.
Expert: Yeah.
Jane Hill: Right. So i is an unnerround.
Expert: No. Look...
Jane Hill: I love you...
MP Louise Ellman was also happy to give us her opinion on what she'd seen on television. Someone from the fire brigade was asked if he knew what happened during the derailment. He said: "A train was proceeding down the track and then due to a mechanical fault it left the track."
Actually it's fairly exciting hearing what are to me fairly mundane daily, everyday names like Lime Street being read out on television. It's even wierder seeing footage of the entrance to Central somewhere I've passed daily for two or three years and off and on for the rest of the time. If you'd like to know where it is, the BBC have a handy map here. They don't say what that purple spaghetti is but I'm guessing it's supposed to be the unnneround rail network.
Good luck to the men and women who'll be down in the tunnel this evening trying to get this thing sorted out.
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