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L18[14:55:33] <FLHerne> .outcome add It is impossible to identify any particular cause for the subsequent disaster; no single factor being different would have prevented it.

L19[14:55:33] <LunchBot> Added outcome: It is impossible to identify any particular cause for the subsequent disaster; no single factor being different would have prevented it.

L20[15:01:43] <xxcoder> nice

L21[15:02:52] <FLHerne> (I'm thinking of the Radstock rail crash, which I think has to take the award for "most inevitable disaster of all time"

L22[15:02:53] <FLHerne> )

L23[15:04:58] <FLHerne> the signalling system was impractical, illegal and in direct conflict with a requirement the company had agreed to; it was being operated by three different untrained teenagers on 14-hour shifts, the most directly supervising member of staff 'on duty' had gone to the pub and got drunk

L24[15:05:38] <xxcoder> 14 hours? what the heck? why not double number of people 7 hours work?

L25[15:05:40] <FLHerne> the communications were set up so that the two people who most needed to talk to each other couldn't contact each other directly, but only through a third person who couldn't read or write

L26[15:06:27] <FLHerne> and the signals most relevant to the collision were being 'operated' by a boy who was physically too weak to operate them, and routinely just didn't, such that train crews had got used to ignoring them

L27[15:07:09] <xxcoder> insane

L28[15:07:41] <FLHerne> there were several extra trains operating which weren't in the timetable, and whose crews hadn't been sent any instructions on where they were intended to pass each other

L30[15:08:12] <FLHerne> and the person supposed to send those instructions was hampered by one of the signallers deliberately sending him gibberish instead of telling him where they were, due to a personal dispute

L32[15:12:29] <xxcoder> good grief

L33[15:13:43] <xxcoder> it sounds like insurance scam

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L37[15:25:34] <FLHerne> > I do not consider it necessary to instruct a station-master, as in the case of Sleep, to remain on duty; his sense of duty to the Company ought to govern him. If Sleep went from Wellow to Midford without my leave, he was doing what he had no right to do. A station-master is never off duty, and he may not leave his town or village without my permission.

L38[15:25:41] <FLHerne> re. hours of working, from the report

L39[15:32:02] <xxcoder> slave

L41[15:37:05] <Mat2ch> xxcoder: The answer to your question is: Money. Also back in those days it was quiet common to have orphans given to people for work

L42[15:37:19] <Mat2ch> at least so they had a roof over their head and something to eat

L43[15:37:50] <xxcoder> quite?

L44[15:38:00] <xxcoder> anyway yeah it all comes down to money eh

L45[15:40:37] <Mat2ch> *quite. yes...

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