Article: Train beds found to be unsafe

[ozbob]

From the Couriermail 21st November 2012 page 17

Train beds found to be unsafe

[ozbob]

New standards come into effect in 2013, the carriages are presently compliant.  Been thousands of kilometres in these beds since 1969.

Not sure if the carriages will modified or simply scrapped.  Put thousands more on the roads to be killed and maimed .. strange priorities ..

[mufreight]

Another beat up over nothing, having travelled using a sleeper both alone and with family and sometimes on trains where the train handling left much to be desired I have never experienced nor have I known of anyone being thrown out of a bunk.
As for someone rolling out of a bunk, that also is rare.
Untill recent years there were no restraining straps fitted to sleeper berths.

[HappyTrainGuy]

Pretty sure there used to be rails available too on the First Class Queenslander Fleet... maybe at request? Most of the instances (The few that I've heard about) when people have fallen off have been people sleeping on top of the sheets with their back facing the edge during emergency brake applications but mostly kids skylarking around. I nor my family have never had issues with them.

[colinw]

Oh good heavens. 

Has all commonsense departed from our society.  Generations of travellers have used those beds on the 'Landers, and there has hardly been a constant stream of injuries.

I sometimes think our entire civilisation is too damn stupid to deserve to survive.

[Stillwater]

Does not the top bunk have a net affair that is designed to prevent someone tumbling out of bed?  Seems to work perfectly.  I am with rtt_rules on this one.  Sounds like a softening-up process to move to sit-ups only, thus limiting journey options to a bus on steel wheels only.

[ozbob]

Crikey all bottles and cans are to banned as well.  They have sharp edges and bottles might break if you drop them.  All booze will be supplied in dual purpose bags, drink the p%ss and then one can use them for relief.  As toilets will not be allowed as someone might fall down the hole ...

58 years or so M series carriages have been running as sleepers.  Very safely too, 100 times safer than roads.  Any coherent risk assessment would determine that.  Force people onto roads, a much more unsafe scenario by any risk assessment.  Colin is right, these clowns really don't deserve to survive ...

[HappyTrainGuy]

Crikey all bottles and cans are to banned as well.  They have sharp edges and bottles might break if you drop them.  All booze will be supplied in dual purpose bags, drink the p%ss and then one can use them for relief.  As toilets will not be allowed as someone might fall down the hole ...

Might have to get rid of that carpet. You know how dangerous carpet burns are.

[Stillwater]

Doors too - fingers can get jammed.  Glass - can shatter.  Timber - splinters.

[WTN]

Lights can fall down and burn someone. Hard floors can cause slips if someone spills or pees on the floor. Hand luggage should go too. People can trip over. Oh, never mind even putting passengers in seats. They might collapse suddenly.