Do Trains Reverse?

[custardpie]

Stood on the platform at Watford Junction with the players when the train goes sailing past leaving us on the platform.
Squealing brakes, the smell of burning and the train stops just past the platform.
Guard says he can't come back, five minutes later you can see the driver in the 'back' of the train coming back for us all to huge cheers and applause
Manchester here we come

Anyone else on it?

 

[The perfect fumble]

Guard says he can't come back, five minutes later you can see the driver in the 'back' of the train coming back for us all to huge cheers and applause

It's magic!...

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Not sure about trains reversing , but there is an open top bus in North London retreating at fast rate of knots.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I was on a Northern Rail t'other week and it got just past Walsden before the driver had to stop because of a landslip on the line. It then had to reverse all the way back to the station.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

I've got a Fleshlight that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine. That's backed up a few times.

 

[The perfect fumble]

 

[dronefromsector7G]

I've got a Fleshlight that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine. That's backed up a few times.

That makes you the fat controller.

 

[totallywired]

If a railway manager is reading this thread, then you have just got the Driver a serious bollocking.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Pellers and Cousillas were in a right old tizz...

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Stood on the platform at Watford Junction with the players when the train goes sailing past leaving us on the platform.
Squealing brakes, the smell of burning and the train stops just past the platform.
Guard says he can't come back, five minutes later you can see the driver in the 'back' of the train coming back for us all to huge cheers and applause
Manchester here we come

Anyone else on it?

You're my new favourite poster.

 

[TheRubberRing]

Trains can reverse

 

[dennistueartismyhero]

Let Pellegrini drive it, he'll take it backwards

 

[manimanc]

Let Pellegrini drive it, he'll take it backwards

Now now flower put those claws back in.

 

[1961_vintage]

Let Pellegrini drive it, he'll take it backwards

.... or alternatively, he can see when something's gone wrong, take the necessary action to change it, and deliver the desired result.

 

[custardpie]

He's going to get a serious bollocking anyway
City have chartered two carriages and I don't think they would have been too pleased had they have been left on the platform
@totallywired

 

[Barcon]

I once met Mick Ronson.

 

[Steviesleftpeg]

Can trains reverse? Hilarious.

Have you ever seen a Virgin train do a U-turn after arriving at Piccadilly to head back to London? Once it gets to one end of the line, the opposite end of the train pulls it the other way. To be technical in some instances the opposite end is a dummy train (known as driving trailer van, or something like that) and it is effectively 'pushed' by the motor at the opposite end, rather than pulled by the engine at the front.

Think of it this way, if a train travels forward in one direction it surely travels in reverse for the other.

What I am trying to say is yes, trains can reverse.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Can planes reverse?

 

[city saint]

ahhhh but can women reverse

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

Can trains reverse? Hilarious.

Have you ever seen a Virgin train do a U-turn after arriving at Piccadilly to head back to London? Once it gets to one end of the line, the opposite end of the train pulls it the other way. To be technical in some instances the opposite end is a dummy train (known as driving trailer van, or something like that) and it is effectively 'pushed' by the motor at the opposite end, rather than pulled by the engine at the front.

Think of it this way, if a train travels forward in one direction it surely travels in reverse for the other.

What I am trying to say is yes, trains can reverse.

But that isn't reversing is it. That is driving in the correct direction with the key in the right cab.

Sticking a train into reverse is a big no no.

The correct procedure is to get permission to set back and then to change cabs in order to do so.