From a non-professional railwayman's view, anything on the top of the rail is likely to ping off at very high speed in any direction when hit by a wheel.
So no Jenny Agutter heroics from me.
I would run.
(Though if there were no train coming, I would kick the clips off, trying to remember my long expired PTS and IWA training about sighting distances)
Last edited by Shed Cat; 13th September 2006 at 20:56.
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