How to make money from misfortune
The weekend was a bit more interesting for some people then me. The Weighbridge broke its £20,000 sales target late on Saturday, mainly as the last train was held at Levisham as a trainee guard fell out of his train on the long siding at Pickering, got up, tripped over the tracks and suffered a compound fracture to his lower leg. As Clive was there, and he is a army medic he helped sort it all out, including helping 2 fire appliances set up lights for the ambulance crew to extract him. When he got he gave us ALL the gory details. The break sounded nasty but uncomplicated, so hopefully he'll be OK, but he didn't have Personal Track Safety training as it was his 1st day out, so now the management is panicking, even though he was escorted by someone who has PTS so its fine under our safety case. Ah, the politics of accidents in a compensation culture.
Yesterday there was a bad crash around Saltergate, closing the main road and diverting all the traffic down past us. Lots of people stopped to use the loos and the Weigh Bridge sold a lot, so what should have been a quiet weekend preparing for next weekend's manic craziness wasn't.
Ah well, back in York now for a busy week.
Yesterday there was a bad crash around Saltergate, closing the main road and diverting all the traffic down past us. Lots of people stopped to use the loos and the Weigh Bridge sold a lot, so what should have been a quiet weekend preparing for next weekend's manic craziness wasn't.
Ah well, back in York now for a busy week.