The narrator of the whole video segment should know that conductors do NOT drive trains, engineers do

@jbj27406

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's true, but on trains which have conductors, the conductor is the boss of the train, not the engineer.

@alexnelson9512

4 ай бұрын

Nor the driver (not the engineer).

@Stefan_Boerjesson

3 ай бұрын

@@jbj27406 Maybe true in some countries but not in Sweden. Since a good number of years the driver is the captain of the train. The conductors checks passenger exchange is done and gives a ready signal, nothing more.

@RinaRavyn

3 ай бұрын

In america* Because in germany we only have conductors, and they operate the trains. We dont have engineers.

@Stefan_Boerjesson

3 ай бұрын

@@RinaRavyn No engineer? Who is the operator of the loco then? Likely a misunderstanding here.

I'll never understand why you wouldn't bust your way through a barrier rather than try to duke it out with a train if you somehow found yourself on the wrong side of it. They are not that strong.

@jenniferbeyer6412

5 ай бұрын

My thoughts as well. You would stand a better chance to survive a crash against another car or truck. But most likely against a train a car or truck will always loose.

@daveschmitt4499

5 ай бұрын

The reason truck's like this get caught in sitting like this is because the train track grade crossing it built high in the air and the landing gear of the trailer being pulled by the truck gets stuck on the pavement or the actual railroad tracks. The truck part can move IF they disconnect from the trailer, but that still leaves the trailer on the tracks. I have always said, truck drivers need to carry pieces of 2 by 8's 6 or more feet long on their trailer, so if the trailer gets stuck, the driver gets out, slides pieces of the 2 by 8's under the truck's rear wheels to raise the trailer end connected to the truck up in the air enough to clear the landing gear on the trailer. IF the driver had enough time, they could extend the landing gear all the way down, thereby raising the trailer enough to clear the tracks, then back the truck up onto the boards, reattach the trailer and drive off the tracks. But everything takes time. Paying attention BEFORE YOU cross a set of raised railroad tracks makes the most sense. If you feel you can't cross over the crossing without bottoming out, find a different crossing as not all crossing are raised.

@10Haille

5 ай бұрын

I would' not trust trust to fix the tract trust as India to fix trucks on a model tail tracks on a model railroad rail rail raiload

@gamingwhileotherssleep4650

5 ай бұрын

@@10Haille This folks, is what a having a stroke in the middle of your post looks like.

@sniperfreek

5 ай бұрын

@@10Haille say again?

As,a signalman on the railway in the UK, these videos actually scared me to watch. Im proud to say that i work for one of the worlds safest railways. We do get alot of crossing jumpers in cars and on foot though which is sad to think that they value a few minutes more than their lives 😢

@wadewilson-xi1zs

5 ай бұрын

How dumb can people be? Are polish people dumb? After watching the train hit the concrete panels, what I don’t understand is why they wouldn’t send someone down the railway in both directions to warm oncoming trains to stop? Were they not thinking about the worst case scenario after they knocked concrete onto the railway? Life is hard but it’s a lot harder for dumb people - John Wayne

@murkhuddindalal

3 ай бұрын

safest with the money from the colonial loot

@moonlightbay4814

Ай бұрын

@@murkhuddindalal But also the slowest and amongst the most expensive in Europe. Nothing to be jealous of!

Text: "Poland has the most dangerous railroads in the EU." Voiceover: "Poland had the most dangerous railroads in the world."

@zydantylov

3 ай бұрын

the data was from 2010

@pawelzielinski1398

2 ай бұрын

@@zydantylov Yes, but still EU is not the world. It's manipulating the data. Poland bashing. Poland is still much safer than US of A.

@johnbishop5316

2 ай бұрын

@@zydantylov To some poeple the EU is the world?

@ionion6006

Ай бұрын

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@iCE2sKY

Ай бұрын

@@johnbishop5316

Can someone inform this genius that the conductor is NOT the one who drives the train?

I think you mean 'driver' (US -engineer) The conductor (or guard in UK) looks after the train further back.

@maj0072

5 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same.

@WAL_DC-6B

4 ай бұрын

@@maj0072 Me too.

@Dutch_Uncle

4 ай бұрын

The conductor is the train boss. It moves when he gives the OK, and he is the communicatin to the the dispatcher.

1:47 "In the world" as it's said or "in the EU" as it's written? Minus

'Conductors' - Drivers 'drive' the train, 'conductors/guards' check tickets and look after the passengers inside the train and normally open and close the doors too.

PS. I worked on a railroad years ago. Biggest washout I worked the rails stayed connected including most of the wood railroad ties still attached to the rails. The washout was 150 feet deep and 200 yards long. We used railroad ties stacked like a cage, called cribbing to build up under the hanging railroad tracks. It took 30 men 3 days of cribbage to get it built up enough to support the tracks. Then came the fun part. An engine with railroad cars full of rocks, also known as ballast, slowly backed out onto the open track as some of us, including me, rode on the side of each car, emptying each car of rock into the never ending deep hole. It took 57 cars of rock to fill that hole. The first ballast cars had giant rocks in them to fill the hole. Eventually we emptied normal ballast on top.

It's not the "conductor" who runs the train.It's the Engineer, train driver or motorman

@richardvoogd705

5 ай бұрын

That was bugging me too!

@kastandlee

5 ай бұрын

@@richardvoogd705 Me too!

@jovetj

5 ай бұрын

In US parlance, the conductor oversees the train and the engineer controls the locomotive(s).

@paulweaver3787

4 ай бұрын

Same here!

@Lurks90

2 ай бұрын

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The conductor checks the tickets !!! The ENGINE DRIVER of ENGINEER drives (and brakes) the train !!!!!

I says Poland has the most dangerous railroads in the EU NOT the world

Anyone else notice (in the last clip) the repairman under the train when it started moving and yet his sparkly white clothes didn't have a speck on him when he emerged? And how about all that garbage on the ground around the train tracks?! Gross! They need to clean that place up!

I think the wash-out was in Australia. Also the report said 'Poland has the most dangerous railways in the EU' and not 'The World.'

@janegilmore102

3 ай бұрын

EU = Europe……….Australia = AUS

@tom201090

3 ай бұрын

​@janegilmore102 incorrect. The EU is a block of countries within Europe. Most European countries in fact. Europe is a Continent. There is a difference.

Wouldn’t surprise me if those bends in the track that caused derailment were actually from thermal expansion during the heat of the day. Train tracks actually shorten and lengthen throughout the day and change of seasons, they’re designed to accommodate this expansion but looks like someone made a wrong calculation in that video

@FriedrichGoring

5 ай бұрын

Thats exactly what would've caused it

@NathanSmith-cs3yi

5 ай бұрын

Agree. We see this a lot in the Australian summer. Trains can be cancelled or slowed to half-speed just in case a bend like this forms without being noticed ahead of time

@RailRide

5 ай бұрын

In US parlance, that sort of defect is called a "sun kink". It's a failure of the surrounding ballast to constrain the track as it expands in hot weather.

@daveschmitt4499

5 ай бұрын

Have you ever stood on railroad tracks when they move like the pictured tracks. Or have you ever had to add more rail in the winter when the tracks pull apart because of the cold. I have seen the heat through sections of track 15 to 20 feet to one side. Usually in a case like that, the tracks and ties stay connected to each other but lift completely out of the ballast and literally jump one direction. You DO NOT want to be anywhere near it when it happens to move that far. Shorter moving distances you can stand on the railroad ties and feel them moving under your feet as you are just along for the ride.

@Dutch_Uncle

4 ай бұрын

The newest equipment is welded rail in sections 1/4 of a mule long, bolted to concrete ties. This firm attachment pevents the rail from sliding. Sounds strrange, but it works. On the hotest days there are still inspections for sun kinks.

The ENGINEER controls the brakes, NOT THE CONDUCTOR!!!

"Conductors" do not operate the train; that is the job of the "driver" or "engineer." Conductors do managerial tasks concerning the freight or passengers.

Dude, railroads clearly are not your forte. 👎

“The conductor…”? How’s the guy in the back collecting tickets going to stop the train? Might want to learn correct terminology instead of sounding like an amateur.

8:08 "Maintenance worker"??? THAT's no a maintenance worker! No safety helmet, no safety shoes/boots, no safety gloves, no appropriate clothing! It looks like some office clerk!

@RecklessBeamngshorts

2 күн бұрын

Indians always test their luck

5:48 You have no idea what you're talking about.

poland has the most dangerous railroads in the world? My guy, the article youre shwoing us just as you say that, says that they have the most dangerous railroads in the EU

thanks most dangerous for another interesting video ! Have a great day :)

As a retired train driver of 30 years, before retirement, my heart always goes out to the train drivers.

They are train operators or engineers

kudos to the last guy in the last video for NOT having a giant brown stain in the seat of his white pants.

Este vídeo é uma delícia visual! Os momentos da estrada são de parar o coração e de tirar o fôlego.

polish railway has gotten better and their trains are amazing as a half polish person and ive been to poland many times but never witnessed a crash

@Dutch3DMaster

5 ай бұрын

For me as a European, it sounds like a typical American exaggeration for not knowing all that much about it, which is already very obvious from comparing Warsaw to the rest of Poland. It would hit the Dutch news if they were so common, I am 100% sure of that, and yet, they are about as rare as they are in The Netherlands: one happening means it is already super-severe, and the data they show in that little report of theirs is also heavily outdated even for 2012 means. Also, at 1:35 or so: As an American channel, having the guts to claim a system is wrong with their massive amounts of very serious derailments involving freight trains that in the past have obliterated towns due to the massive fires that ensued after the collision...is from another planet, and actually are so common that the ones in which no injuries, fires or serious chemical spills are involved, don't make the news. A report showed that some states have to deal with derailments/accidents more than there are days in the year, but nope, 2 collisions (that could also just be really bad luck and a statistical deviation) in a country in Europe is definitely a sign it's freaking dangerous here! The little report thingy they show directly after also doesn't really mention much: rail accidents are not just train-on-train, also person-and-train, train-and-vehicle (and yes, sometimes that also means a death from the vehicle's occupant, but you get the idea). If I count the amount of accidents between trains and vehicles, and trains and people in The Netherlands, I think I can also easily come to a pretty high number, and even though vehicle-train collisions are still rare, they do happen. Train-on-train collisions however, are incredibly rare here, and for there to be deaths in vehicle-train and train-on-train accidents is even more rare, even with the higher speeds. One of the most recent, severe accidents ever saw one death and 30 wounded. A freight-train hit an excavator kind of vehicle that was crossing the train tracks in a manner the driver wasn't supposed to do, killed the driver of it, and knocked the remains of the excavator on the other track where an intercity hit it and derailed in a spectacular fashion (with several parts ending up in farmland right next to the tracks, with one of the wheelsets getting torn off and ending up around 30 meters from the carriage...) It made headlines all week, first because of how rare it was, then that there was a death involved, the injured, how they were treated, how farmers provided the first aid after hearing a massive amount of noise and what not... If Poland was so behind on security, we would hear about this in The Netherlands, I'm 100% sure...

@kanapkazewszystkim

5 ай бұрын

@@Dutch3DMaster As a Polish: we just have big organizational mess on the management level. Our trains and tracks are ok, but often accidents happen because of that. I worked in The Netherlands for some time and enjoyed order and... simplicity (?) of your system. Then, one time near Amsterdam train shook so strong for some reason I was scared for my life, I guess nothing is ideal.

Greetings from Poland💪🖐️

Just drive thru the crossing arm. Its damage is less than being hit by the train. Geez.

VERY NICE VIDEO 👍👍👍

The reason for a track bend like the one at 4:58 is because of heat. In summertime, thaintrack metal can stretch in the summerheat and cause them to bend. Happens all the time. Bus most of them a discovered before a train hits them.

@PatrickLipsinic

5 ай бұрын

Yep, Sun Kink

8:32 Durka Durka Durka Durka Durka Durka

@Eclipse1988

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Tilting trains doesn't change centrifugal forces

@ThomasWLalor

5 ай бұрын

Should have said "centripetal" not centrifugal forces counter balanced.

It was easy to tell in the first video who was probably at fault in the collision. The train the camera was on actually had a crossover with its points set to diverge just ahead of them, so they were almost certainly cleared onto the parallel track. The one coming at them, assuming there wasn't a signal malfunction, committed a SPAD infraction. (SPAD = Signal Passed At Danger, the railroad equivalent of running a red light). And that never, ever ends well. A signal on a railroad is set at red, or danger, *for a good reason.* In most countries, pulling a SPAD gets a driver/engineer instantly fired unless there's a fundamental problem with the system (signal malfunction, signal not visible due to obstructions, etc).

@Dutch3DMaster

5 ай бұрын

Let's not forget that the channel had the guts to have the voice-over say that 2 collisions in a short time means there is something wrong, while the US is the number 1 when it comes to severe derailments and accidents, sometimes ending up in severe chemical spills or chemical fires, up to the point that they have more derailments/accidents than there are days in the year... It also sounds like an American way to exaggerate things, and the fact it compares Warsaw to Poland is....eh...well, typical to me as a Dutch person...

@jovetj

5 ай бұрын

@@Dutch3DMaster Let's not forget that when you have the largest railroad network in the world, you tend to have the most trains, and it follows you will have the most accidents.

Between news-making events over the past few years and this video, if I'm ever in India I won't be taking the train.

@alancrisp1582

5 ай бұрын

🤔 Very wise decision, take the bus 🚍 instead ?- even more dangerous over there !..

Conductors are usually at the rear of the train. I think you mean ‘driver’, or the American nomenclature ‘engineer’.

"Liking" this video might not be the most appropriate response! I did find it fascinating, and I do appreciate the reminder of human frailty in combination with all the surprises our natural world holds! What this video demonstrates is the necessity to inspect, inspect, and inspect again!

GOD was with that train worker tying the air hose lines!!!!

In the bus video, kudos to the bus driver for saving the crossing arm!

According to data from the International Union of Railways, India has the highest number of rail accidents in the world. In 2019, there were a total of 3,840 rail accidents in India, resulting in 1,655 deaths and 1,342 injuries. This is significantly higher than any other country in the world. The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the deadliest recorded train disaster in history, claiming the lives of at least 1,700 people. The incident was the result of a devastating tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which caused severe destruction to railway infrastructure.

The trash in India is a disaster. You could see it next to the tracks but in the country side or in the cities it is the same.

I'll never understand why you wouldn't just break through a barrier instead of confronting a train if you ever end up on the wrong side. It's not that difficult.

The bend you referred to was caused by heat. When the rails get excessively hot from the sun's heat, they grow longer and move sections of track like you see in this video. The track maintenance team will come out as soon as they get this information and use a rail saw to cut out a section of rail on both sides and then reattach both rails so the line is straight again.

@extraterrestrial7424

5 ай бұрын

And what happens after the heat goes away and cold kicks in instead? Do they fill a piece again?

@jovetj

5 ай бұрын

The whole point is to: 1. Install the rails at a neutral temperature to minimize expansion and contraction over the range of the temperatures the track may be exposed to. 2. Install rail anchors which bind the rail up against the ties/sleepers and prevent it moving too far. 3. Reduce speeds during periods of high thermal stress.

@daveschmitt4499

5 ай бұрын

The answer to your question on if rail is added in extremely cold temps, is yes. They do add rail in extremely cold temps IF they can't pull or expand the rail already in place.

@daveschmitt4499

5 ай бұрын

There is absolutely no guarantee installation of a certain temp or time can guarantee no movement. I worked on a major railroad for 30 plus years. I started in the times when little was done to repair and rarely replace tracks because the costs were to be kept down. Eventually moving into replacement of tracks, ties and everything associated with them, but still needing to work sun kinks or pull aparts depending on the season. Real life experiences.

About the type of trains that lean in the curves: it's the train you don't want to take if you get motion sickness easily. I've gotten horribly sick on them.

Really surprised Palesrine, Ohio didn't make it. Wonder about that...the wrong destruction, I suppose.

@digitalchaos1980

5 ай бұрын

I don't believe that accident was caught on camera, or at least not on released footage.

@Acts-1915

5 ай бұрын

@@digitalchaos1980 Good point. I'm sure there's footage we will never be allowed to see.....for our "safety".

@Dutch3DMaster

5 ай бұрын

@@digitalchaos1980 Fairly sure it's because it's a US thing, I noticed the narrator had the guts to call 2 collisions in Poland a "wrong system", but yet: the US has more railroad accidents than there are days in the year... It almost seems that the train accident only needs to affect the train and people on it...and well, Palestine in Ohio wasn't exactly that, it was way worse....

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 ай бұрын

The video doesn't feature accidents involving fatalities.

The report you reference states worst railway in the EU ( European Union ). Not the world.

At 1:47 it is written: `the most dangerous railroads in the EU´ - NOT IN THE WORLD!!!

#3 that was some serious braking action before the concrete slab.

6:30 what a coincidence 😂

Why does the narrator keep referring to the operator of the locomotive as the "conductor"? He should be saying ENGINEER., not "conductor".

5:05 is a heat kink, they suck. This a small passenger train, try having a 3 mile long freight train and seeing this.

Bus driver: "-Oh, I'm afraid to break the barrier, it's better to stop in the way of the train!"

"Tiny Bend" the rails are off by a few *inches*. That's a lot for the flanged wheels on a train to handle. They are not designed for that.

I wouldn't say the Pendelino screamed through. The train clearly slowed down xD And good thing, otherwise I'm not sure how many of the passengers could've evacuated.

The safety on the indian railway is absolutely 0% i mean, the engineer was wearing office clothes ffs and thats just the tip of the iceberg. The protection of personnel on the railway her in the UK is second to none. That man could have lost his life that day 😢😢😢

@sarajoolae8197

2 ай бұрын

YES AGREED. THAT RAILWAY EMPLOYEE SO NEARLY LOST HIS LIFE WOULD LOVED TO OF HEARD WHAT HE SAID ON HIS RADIO AFTERWARDS.THAT TO ME LOOKED LIKE CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

1:52 No in the EU not the world

Super jesteśmy bezpieczni

Poland... Lovely country, just don't use the railways, you'd be safer using a pogo stick. Those washouts are nasty because they will take you by surprise. It is all well and good to say that the lines need to be inspected regularly, but landslips and slides and washouts can happen any time and not always where you expect. Water has a habit of making its own pathways and sneakily eroding the earth so you don't see it until it actually happens. Scary stuff. As for that Indian maintenance bloke. He was VERY lucky, his colleagues were able to get the passengers to pull the emergency cord. I'm surprised his pristine white clothing didn't go brown after his rather 'exciting' trip.

@pawelzielinski1398

2 ай бұрын

Poland is certainly much safer than US of A.

I'll skip my next trip to Poland! YIKES ! ! !

@johnjephcote7636

5 ай бұрын

I use Polish trains all the time and never had a problem.

The bus driver, losing his license would have been the least of his worries if I'd been in the bus.

Boneheaded bus driver is right! Wouldn't it have been better for him to just keep going and push thru the arm instead of stopping on the tracks which resulted in damage to the bus and train? His bus company would only have to pay for damage to the arm (and the bus) plus any legal fines, of course.

@Dutch3DMaster

5 ай бұрын

Gates are designed to snap off when hit sideways, so yes: when getting stuck between gates that do not provide an escape, smash right through the gate. You'll have a few scratches and dents, but that's it.

@daveschmitt4499

5 ай бұрын

It appears as if the bus driver stopped where he did to let someone off the bus, not realizing he was still between the gates. Clearly that bus driver should be fired even if no one was hurt.

Thank you for the video. I can't exactly understand why picking apart your videos seems to be a common commenters past-time on your videos. After research, finding clips you can use, editing, finding music you can use, recording, editing again, commenting, announcing, promoting making other videos on other platforms... youd think people would be able to understand what you mean when you say conductor and not engineer.

that bus driver shouldn't be allowed to push a shopping cart..

5:56, its wrong to assume instantly thats its human error, weather can play a huge effect on tracks.

20 Pendolinos bought in Poland have no tilting mechanism

Leave it to India for working wearing Flip Flops and no protection. 🤣

Autorzy prezentuja dane o wypadkach kolejowych w Polsce z 2010 roku! To nie jest w porządku, dane nie sa aktualne. Może lepiej przykładac się do tematu a nie szukać na siłe klikalności i subów

1:17 insert SpongeBob Hi how are you meme here

I couldnt help but notice all the garbage in the last minutes of the video in india

#2 looks like a "sun kink", expansion of the rails due to excessive heat during the summer. The rails actually become longer, and when the expansion allowance is exceeded, the rails bend out of shape.

That is some seriously creepy music on there!

I feel like you'd want to reduce centrifugal force, not centripetal force

The figures showed France had 15 train accidents, the highest in EU, yet Poland had 449 in 2010, and Germany 297 and Romania 271. Does not make sense.

2 things I just want to say as this was a bit weird to listen to at points: 1: Please just call them drivers, not conductors. They are only called conductors if it's a steam train. 2: "Railroads" aren't the correct term unless you're American, but apart from the bonus you should have referred to them as railways. If you are American, still please only say railroad when speaking about American stuff. Hope this helps for future videos

Wow. My country is really popular, huh? Nice. Our railroads are safe. There are accidents but it is not as dangerous as driving car. Don't worry if you visit us. Although I don't know why people would visit my country. The air is nasty ;p

Mishap #3 (4:23) how on Earth did the concrete slab end on the tracks and didn't simultaneously break the overhead power line?! I cannot believe slab was placed BELOW the wires?!? Yet I cannot believe falling concrete slab wouldn't have broken the overhead line if it was placed ABOVE it?!?

Why does KZread agree to such blatantly lying adverts?

5:11-I wouldnt say that was a tiny bend

I may have to avoid AMTRAK too. Bummer! Can I still walk? * Cav *

Till this day the worst train crash in Poland was under city name Szczekociny

02:50 - always remember the barriers or "arms" than come down at a crossing are DESIGNED to break easily in case some idiots are trapped on the inside, still on the tracks.

What I learned from this video is to stay away from public transit when visiting Poland.

I'm glad the person who posted this resisted the urge to capitalized the word "shocking."

High speed trains tilting while turning on tracks sounds dangerous.

@kastandlee

5 ай бұрын

Tilting trains are a known technology that works pretty well. It's not all that new, even.

@thomasschwarting5108

5 ай бұрын

No it's not, centrifugal force will keep it on the tracks! Think of it like roads. If all roads were flat going around bends, you'd have to slow down considerably just to keep from flying off the road. So in that case centrifugal force will send you flying OFF the road!!

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 ай бұрын

On the contrary; it's far _less_ dangerous than taking bends at high speeds in an upright position. It's why high-speed corners at velodromes and racetracks are banked.

Quando parli di Varsavia ci sono tutti quei grattaceli che fai vedere nel video ? Mah !!! Io non credo .

Conductors don't drive trains. Drivers do (Or if you are in the states they call him an engineer). 🏳‍🌈

America has roughly 1,000 train derailments per year.

i'll never understand why people just stop in the middle of the tracks bc they don't want to break the rail crossing arm. like no matter what you are going to be paying something either your car or the rail crossing. probably will get a ticket in both cases.

The second mishap, bent rails. In Sweden we name that "sun curve". It can look like on the video, or the tracks are raised up in the air, like a big bump. During intensive sunshine lots of thension is built up in the rails. Like a pop, the bad condition takes place. You can perform an inspection but for the neaxt train the trouble has broken loose.. Being the chief conductor, travelling in the very last part of the train, it was an upsetting experience to pass a "sun curve". The low speed, 40 kph, the entire train stayed on the tracks but the driver was more then upset and refused to drive a second time...... A shunter and one car had to be used to bring passengers home. The last mishap. Just open the air valve on the car connected to the loco. That applies emergency brakes up to the loco. Driving the bus one passenger went for her luggage. Looking in the mirror, it was all cleared outsid the bus so the luggage door was closed and driving took on. Upset people on the side walk started waving... The driver got the picture and stopped, opened the luggage door. The suitcase had moved deep into the luggage compartment and the lady crawled in there, and was not visible..... She got a hug an all excuses possible. Completely the drivers mistake.

Your comments on the "bent track" at about the 5-minute mark were completely ignorant and displayed a shocking lack of knowledge about railroad maintenance and operations. Where the rail kinked, the point where the fault occurred was not a smooth, even break, despite your description of it as "small". That train was moving at a pretty good clip and striking such an abrupt displacement of the track at that speed imparted very serious lateral forces on the locomotive which caused it to lose contact with the rail. You should also know that the point of actual contact between a wheel and the rail is about the size of a dime, so jarring the locomotive like that will cause it to derail. You also implied that maintenance forces had not done an adequate job. It wouldn't matter if a high-rail truck had passed over that section 1 minute before and found the track to be in good shape; thermal stress (sun kinks) displacements happen without warning in a fraction of a second. I can assure you that even in Poland once the fault was discovered they would have shut that section of track down and repaired it. No engineer/driver would attempt to negotiate that kink, even at 5 MPH. As it was they had no warning of the fault and had no way to stop before they hit it. That's no different than hitting a washout caused by a flash flood. Crap happens.

Engineers or Train Drivers operate the locomotives. Conductors are in charge of the train but don’t operate them. Also, the track was probably bent from a heat kink, not poor maintenance.

Best watched muted. These clips do not need a narrator.

4:56 Location Poland time 2010

Dont you mean either Engineer or in Uk Driver as a Conductor or in Uk a Guard dont usually drive trains. In my opinion the US has the worst accident record due to lack of maintenance as well as a lack of block signalling and automated signalling systems

The bus driver didn't have to stop on the train track even though he should have stopped way before the first closing gate. Since he had already crossed the first gate and could not make the second, it was perfectly okay for him to have cleared through the second gate completely destroying it than to stop on the track as he did. One should never ever stop on a train track in such situations. If your speed is too high and you can not stop, run the gates down. Remember that the barriers aren't there to kill you, but to save lives. They aren't that strong. However, avoid taking unnecessary risks and drive safe!

but the last clip he didnt get the brakes working again the train line (the main air line running through the whole consist) is still clearly severed

Good video , but the trains in Poland are terrible

The train in that last story must have been the cleanest in the world, cos his white uniform didn't even get a smudge of dirt!

2:38 that was a fucking czech logo ČD so its pendolino from czechia/prague