Close but......

[bill937ca]

A bit too far.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_xnnLnMpbc

[Tecchan]

I'm sure the driver was deeply ashamed, was sanctioned and the train company made tons of excuses.

 

Anywhere else thus would have been: "Sorry folks". ^^,

[scott]

Now we see the danger of having tons of railfans with video cameras hanging around. 

[Nick_Burman]

I'm sure the driver was deeply ashamed, was sanctioned and the train company made tons of excuses.

 

OK as long as it doesn't cause another Amagasaki...

 

 

Cheers NB

[clem24]

Bahahahahahahahaha this is usually what happens when I play Densha De Go! I've always wondered what happens in real life when the train overshoots the platform.

[bill937ca]

Bahahahahahahahaha this is usually what happens when I play Densha De Go! I've always wondered what happens in real life when the train overshoots the platform.

 

JR has suspended operators for being as little as 50 seconds late.

[Mudkip Orange]

Yeah Sunday I was on a Spamtrak that overshot that platform at Exton by about 200 yards or so. Then we had to chill for several minutes while they radioed to get permission to back it up.

[bikkuri bahn]

Disciplinary measures for unforced delays and overshoots is another ball of wax, but the way the operating diagrams are constructed, with timepoints pegged down to 15 second increments, leaves little leeway. When you are running an operation with 2~3 minute headways,  a 50 second delay has repurcussions beyond the original train and following one.  Some lines are more susceptible than others- in Tokyo, the JR Chuo Line and Tokyu Den-en toshi Line come to mind.

[westfalen]

We call that a Saturday night stop (any trouble makers on the platform can't get in behind the driver). Our rules allow you to set back if you overshoot by one car or less, more than that requires written authority in case you overlap the signal circuit behind you, that takes at least five minutes to do so if there is another train close behind control often tells you to skip the stop and keep going.