How not to do it in German
 

Anyone else see this news item
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German passenger train was brought to a shuddering halt when a football flew from a nearby pitch and hit a brake pipe, triggering an automatic braking system, police said on Tuesday.


"The ball hit the brake pipe between the locomotive and the first carriage and undid it, leading to a loss of pressure," said a police spokesman in the western city of Muenster. "This caused the train to brake automatically."


A local youth team were playing football at the time on a pitch near the railway line in Emsdetten, near Muenster. No one has claimed the shot that stopped the train, the spokesman said.


The driver managed to re-attach the pipe and the train was delayed by only eight minutes, he added

John

Not surprised their football teams are good at winning on penalty shootouts.....

An eight minute delay doesn't seem that bad. I can remember an occasion a couple of years back when I was going from Heywood to Bury behind the Duke of Gloucester. About five minutes after leaving the station the train came to a halt, according to the gaurd a section of brake pipe had come away. The train sat there for about an hour and a half before we were rescued by D5054. Still, perhaps the Germans should protect there brake pipes better. Do they use air or vacuum brakes?

Adam

This story sounds rather comical but I wouldnt think taht anyone on the train would have thought so.

Had it been in the UK and a cricket ball, then Duncan Fletcher would have had the person responsible on the first flight to Perth for the 3rd test.

Perhaps the footballers were having a brake in training.
Alan Locojoe