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Old 1st August 2011, 11:49
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Passengers Ride on Top The Train

Hello, everybody

I am a new in this forum. But I am have interest in making video documentary about train, railways. Link below clips on commuter train in Indonesia:

http://www.pond5.com/video-sound-eff...ml?ref=NgartoF

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Old 1st August 2011, 12:34
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Hello AbuAjriya and welcome to the Railway Forum. Had a look at your video page and found it very intresting. In the U.K there is no way that people would be allowed to travel on the roof of a train.You may have seen on a post last week that someone managed to get onto the roof of a train in the UK. The police were called and the Fire service used a ladder to get him down. He was then taken away to see if he had any mental problems. I also have seen passangers in South Africa traveling on the roof and when the train is going slowly, they jump over the wire supports for fun.
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Old 1st August 2011, 15:45
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Also in the UK where the train is supplied by overhead wires like in your pictures they are not 1500 volt but 25000 volt so no one could ride on the roof like that and survive.
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The trouble is that in this day & age, kids see stuff on the TV and in films where extreme sports are considered to be not only 'cool', but have an awful habit of actually becoming accepted AS sport. Take'free jumping/running', where it's considered OK to be jumping across large gaps onto narrow walls, between roofs etc. Only this morning I turned on the TV, and a movie called 'Extreme Ops' showed grown youngsters (some taking drugs) achieving hero worship by doing such stunts as: skateboarding along the top of a train (USA), leaping from the top of one coach to the next using a skateboard and ropes with hooks to swing on and off; snowboarding using the train as a power source, leaping across each other and the track, not to mention trees, chasms etc, all the time being filmed from an awestruck cameraman lying upside down beneath the rear of the train. It's no wonder that kids do dumb stuff when there's this sort of thing about.
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The trouble is that in this day & age, kids see stuff on the TV and in films where extreme sports are considered to be not only 'cool', but have an awful habit of actually becoming accepted AS sport. Take'free jumping/running', where it's considered OK to be jumping across large gaps onto narrow walls, between roofs etc. Only this morning I turned on the TV, and a movie called 'Extreme Ops' showed grown youngsters (some taking drugs) achieving hero worship by doing such stunts as: skateboarding along the top of a train (USA), leaping from the top of one coach to the next using a skateboard and ropes with hooks to swing on and off; snowboarding using the train as a power source, leaping across each other and the track, not to mention trees, chasms etc, all the time being filmed from an awestruck cameraman lying upside down beneath the rear of the train. It's no wonder that kids do dumb stuff when there's this sort of thing about.
Could not agree more, well said
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Old 2nd August 2011, 06:00
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Thank for your reply and comment. Commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia, particularly economic class, usually full passengers in the morning and evening on weekday. As you can see a video in link below, some of the passengers ride on the roof and hangout of the door of the train. Because train full of passengers, reckless young man ride above the roof of the train.

http://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/6...ml?ref=NgartoF

The behavior like this one has long carried by young man even children. The police had often warned them to stay down.
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Here's a graphic illustration of the danger of getting on the roof of a train with overhead wires!

WARNING - VERY GRAPHIC FOOTAGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9HsIL_luUU
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While we are talking about Indonesia . . . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...1.html?image=7
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Old 2nd August 2011, 17:27
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Nice Picture

Nice picture! Talking about Indonesia, especially about Indonesia railway, is very interesting, like video that I upload before:

http://www.pond5.com/video-sound-eff...ml?ref=NgartoF

Thank you.
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Old 14th August 2011, 19:47
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Riding on train roofs.

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Hello AbuAjriya and welcome to the Railway Forum. Had a look at your video page and found it very intresting. In the U.K there is no way that people would be allowed to travel on the roof of a train.You may have seen on a post last week that someone managed to get onto the roof of a train in the UK. The police were called and the Fire service used a ladder to get him down. He was then taken away to see if he had any mental problems. I also have seen passangers in South Africa traveling on the roof and when the train is going slowly, they jump over the wire supports for fun.
Hi AbuAjriya & DSY011, sorry i am a little late on this one as i have had PC problems, SYD you mention South Africa,they have a game there called Surfing at which youngsters bet against each other as to who can go the furthest on a fast moving train by going from one end of the train to the other,ie 12 coaches,trying to miss the O/H wires all 25000 volts plus hanging and scaleing the outside of the carriages,conseqently their are quite a few deaths every month. Torquay.
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