#Railway Crime

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Shocking Sexual Assault on Utkal Express: Pantry Worker Arrested

Differently-Abled Passenger Rescued from Attempted Rape in Train Bathroom A pantry car employee faces charges after allegedly attempting to rape a differently-abled woman on the Utkal Express, sparking outrage and swift police action. JAMSHEDPUR – On the Utkal Express, an alleged rape attempt was made by a pantry worker against a differently-abled passenger in the train’s restroom. The incident…

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Biatorbágy railway viaduct after the fatal derailment of the Vienna Express on September 13, 1931 by mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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North Korean M1989 Koksan 170 mm self-propelled guns being transported by train, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Russia, 2024. Source: Special Kherson Cat

P.S. Russian sources share photo which suggests that North Korea has began shipping M-1978 Koksan 170 mm self-propelled gun of North Korean manufacture to Russia. Visually those are very similar to 2S7 Pion 203mm SPG...

While North Korea's communists are suppling the Kremlin with artillery and soldiers penny pinching Western media outlets are busy to spread B.-S. advertisements of dumb billionaires and celebrities..., and endless complaints that Ukrainians are defending their nations independence and freedom way too efficiently...

The modern Western political and business elite have betrayed the "free world" and it looks so pathetically helpless and deeply corrupt...

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'David Tennant and Catherine Tate pay tribute to Bernard Cribbins after his posthumous appearance in Doctor Who's 60th anniversary special, "Wild Blue Yonder." In the special, Cribbins briefly reprises his role as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of Donna Noble (Tate) and longtime friend of the Doctor (Tennant). Sadly, Cribbins passed away on July 27, 2022, making his return as Mott his final TV appearance. He first began portraying the character in 2007 alongside Tennant's Doctor, which adds an emotional layer to their 60th anniversary reunion.

While appearing on Doctor Who: Unleashed, Tennant and Tate paid tribute to their late Doctor Who 60th anniversary co-star following the premiere of "Wild Blue Yonder." Tennant describes how "delighted" they were when they learned Cribbins was returning for the special, while Tate explained that she and Tennant had grown up watching Cribbins' works as children. Check out their statements below:

Tennant: We were beyond delighted when we knew that Bernard was going to be able to come back. It means so much to me, personally, and I think to the show as a whole, really, that he was there. That character meant so much to so many people.

Tate: Bernard will always, obviously, hold a very special place in my heart, because he always did, even before I knew him, because David and I kind of grew up with watching Bernard on TV, and he was the voice of the Wombles and loads of stuff that would define our childhood. And so having him play my grandad was amazing.

Bernard Cribbins' Doctor Who Legacy

Cribbins left behind quite a legacy following his decades-long career, in which he appeared in notable works such as The Railway Children and Frenzy. Additionally, as Tennant described, he held a special place in the Doctor Who universe. His experience with the franchise actually began back in 1966 when he starred in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. The film wasn't canon to the Doctor Who TV series, but it was inspired by the show and marked Cribbins' first stint as a companion of the Doctor. Little did he know that over 41 years later, he'd become an official Doctor Who companion.

Cribbins first appeared in Doctor Who as Mott in the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned." He was running a newspaper stand in London and was revealed to be one of the few residents remaining in the city over the holidays despite all the extraterrestrial happenings. The Doctor teleported away then, leaving Mott perplexed. However, that wasn't the end of the story. He returned in Doctor Who season 4, episode 1, "Partners in Crime," where it's revealed he is Donna's grandfather. With his interests in astronomy and alien conspiracy theories, he wholeheartedly supports Donna's desire to travel the world with the Doctor.

Occasionally joining their adventures, Mott fought Daleks, made daring escapes, and later helped save Donna's life by ensuring she wouldn't remember the Doctor. However, he was drawn to the Doctor again in "The End of Time" and became his temporary companion. Ultimately, the Doctor sacrifices his life to save Mott, a decision the Time Lord never regretted. "Wild Blue Yonder" brings Mott's story full circle as it's revealed his faith in the Doctor never wavered. His Doctor Who story ends with his reunion with the Doctor and his hope that the world will be saved again.

Note

Showrunner Russell T Davies has confirmed Mott will be mentioned in the final Doctor Who 60th anniversary special, but he won't appear onscreen as Cribbens only filmed one scene.'

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Mike the punk train.

[esteemed-excellency]

For Hiram! ⚓️ and 🎟️!

⚓️ Which faction is your OC closest to?

He's closest to hell, and most renown with the great game.

🎟️ Have they written anything for the Shuttered Palace’s court?

Hiram accepted all kinds of commissions to increase his reputation at court, as soon as he got back in touch with society after the fall. He always was a decent writer but he refined his talent and he got the hang of music composition too, favouring symphonic poems and waltzes. The literary works he's most proud of are A Nocturnal Rhapsody, A Gothic Romance, and A Bazaarine Tale. He also helped Tristram Bagley/the Topsy King to complete his unfinished masterpiece.

Needless to say, he was immediately interested about moving pictures when they were first presented in London and he instantly got into films.

He doesn't care for the position of Poet Laureate at the moment, he prefers to write academic dissertations and research journals, but it could be a nice opportunity for the future, you never know.

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"TRAIN WRECKER GETS TWO YEARS," Sault Star. May 6, 1912. Page 1. --- Found guilty of attempting to derail an A. C. R. train at Hobon last week, Mike Dunbovitch was this morning sentenced by Magistrate Mackey to spend two years in Kingston Penitentiary.

Dunbovitch was previously in the employ of the O'Boyle Construction Co., but had been discharged. He tried to derail the train by plugging a switch. He was arrested by Provincial Constable Connor.

[AL: Dunbovitch or Dunbodie was an 'Austrian' immigrant to Canada, 20 years old and unemployed; this was his first offence. He was actually convicted of breaking locks and stealing a railway handcar. He was convict #F-389 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in the quarry and trucking gang. He was a very poorly behaved according to prison rules - he was 'admonished' (reported and lectured) five times between June and October. He was reported again in November and December and lost his 'good time.' He was put in solitary for 12 days in February 1913, and again in March and April. Finally, he was transferred in mid-April 1913 to the high security permanent segregation unit - the Prison of Isolation. A few days later he was given 7 days bread and water in his cell. He was kept in Isolation for the rest of the year, and released at the almost full extent of his sentence in April 1914.]

[kariganleclair]

It always baffles me when people say things like there's no money in rail and it's so slow. Clearly (and I really shouldn't be surprised by this) they have forgotten that many of those Gilded Age business tycoons they hold up as paragons of capitalism built the empires they had on railways, both by building them and using them. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was richer than Bill Gates ever thought of being, was a shipping and railroad magnate. His youngest son, George Vanderbilt, who inherited a paltry $10 million from his father built the damn Biltmore Estate with railroad money. You want to know what is literally just on the other side of the river from that? That's right a large railyard that has several large freight trains that go through it on a regular basis. Asheville as we know it today was built around the railroad and transportation industry which allowed for TOURISM to become a major industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by MAKING IT EASIER AND MORE AFFORDABLE for people to go places and have money to spend. Hey look, more economical impact. But since the rail industry has faded into the golden glow of nostalgia, relegated to being conceived as a quaint, slow, dying industry and Americans are all about the next new shiny thing (if ever there was a poster child country for ADD it's us), it's easy enough to go along with the governments need for fast cash for the short term rather than taking the time and effort to invest in long term endeavors that would actually benefit us well into the future, but since they are largely old, rich, white guys who are looking at living only another decade or so, they don't give a damn about the rest of us or one of the industries that built this country, for both good and bad. No, I am not salty about this at all.

So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century

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A.P. man, daughter held for murdering woman, dumping body at Minjur railway station

The suitcase which carried the elderly woman’s body at Minjur railway station | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Government Railway Police in Chennai’s Korukkupet have arrested a 43-year-old goldsmith and his 17-year-old daughter for allegedly murdering an elderly woman, transporting her body in a suitcase via a suburban train from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, and attempting to abandon it in…

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Human Trafficker with 6 Children Arrested at Tatanagar Railway Station

Suspect from West Bengal nabbed with six minors en route to Delhi. A man from Malda, West Bengal, was arrested at Tatanagar railway station with six minor children, suspected of trafficking them to Delhi. JAMSHEDPUR – A resident of Nazaruddin Tola in Malda, West Bengal, was apprehended at Tatanagar railway station with six minor children, allegedly trafficking them to Delhi for work. Police…

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रेल्वे तिकिटांसह दलालांना अटक

गोंदिया : आमगाव येथील इंदिरानगर येथून बनावटी रेल्वे तिकीट तयार करणार्‍या दलालासह २४ हजार ३३१ रुपये किमतीचे ५७ तिकीटे जप्त करण्यात आले. ही कारवाई रेल्वे सुरक्षा दलाने २ एप्रिल रोजी केली. प्रवास सुखकर व सुरक्षित व्हावा, यासाठी रेल्वेचे आरक्षण हा प्रवाशांसाठी नेहमीच चिंतेचा राहते. याचाच लाभ उचलत काही दलाल बनावटी तिकीटांची विक्री करीत असल्याच्या घटना उघडकीस आल्या आहेत. (Brokers arrested with railway…

[trollprincess]

So I have a friend from high school who is a cop. (Yes, I KNOW.) I shared a photo on Facebook of a packed highway of people attempting to evacuate from Hurricane Milton, all while the lanes going in the opposite direction were open and empty. And my Facebook post was basically me screaming, “Open the other side of the highway and reverse it so that people can GET OUT.”

His response was essentially, “Yeah, that is *really* difficult for us to do.” Not in a condescending way, because he genuinely isn’t a huge asshole. (Yes, I KNOW.)

And then I may have vented in my response, in which I tried not to imply that the police were a problem. Because to be honest, I don’t see this as a police problem. I see this as how we have fucked ourselves as a nation by making ourselves so dependent on cars.

There is that poll on this site – or multiple polls, at this point – asking how long people can tolerate being in their cars. And the thing is, Americans (and Canadians as well, I am imagining) have almost no other options. We have to be used to spending a good 12 hours in a car without breaking a sweat. Everything in this country is built around being in a car. There’s a reason when you ask us how far away a place is from somewhere else, we normally give that distance in hours and not miles.

Air travel sucks. It sucks for a multitude of reasons – cost, the hassle of dealing with security, the time suck, etc. – and in an emergency, only a select few are going to be able to use it to get away from a hurricane. And that’s one of the few disasters where air travel is an optional escape.

Train travel sucks. Amtrak is not something you’re gonna be complaining about if you’re trying to get away from whatever disaster you need to evacuate from. But next to so many other countries, Amtrak looks like we’ve been receiving other countries’s leftover railway systems from the 70s. It also doesn’t go everywhere. I live in northeastern Pennsylvania near Scranton, which prides itself on its history in the train industry. We have a museum and everything. We have multiple things named after that museum, including the Steamtown marathon which is happening tomorrow.

Can you get on a passenger train in Scranton? Nope.

(The main argument against this always seems to be that people will come here from New York City and commit crimes, which is hilarious considering if somebody wanted to come here from New York City and commit crimes it’s only a 2.5-hour drive.)

Anyway, disasters.

If the only option you’re gonna give most people to get out of areas of Florida that are being targeted by hurricanes or areas of California that suffer from wildfires or places in the Midwest that face flooding are cars, then we need a better fucking emergency management system regarding transportation in this country. You can’t just sit there and mock people for not evacuating because they can’t or won’t when getting away from Milton meant sitting on highway for hours with absolutely no gas stations whatsoever nearby having any gas at all. (It just makes me think of those photos of people stranded on the highway in their cars in blizzards where people are like, “Now imagine imagine how bad it would be if all of those cars were electric!“ Well, all of those cars in that photo in that blizzard run on gas and they’re fucking stranded, sooooooo.)

Look, we can change the transportation system in this country. we did it before and we can do it again. We used to have more train options, fewer highways. My small hometown had a fucking trolley in the 40s. Now, if you don’t have a car here, you’re stuck. You can’t even get Uber here. if a wildfire started here and surrounded the town, it would be a clusterfuck.

Regardless of how you feel about the police, if police and fire departments in this country cannot organize an evacuation on a highway in a way that will reduce the backup so that tens of thousands of people aren’t sitting in their cars when a hurricane hits, that’s a problem – not just for those people, but for the police, and the fire department, and emergency management in general.

The people in charge of emergency management are just people, just human. I���m researching the Camp Fire in 2018 right now, and you had a bunch of people calling 911 saying, “I can see a huge fire off to the east. Are we safe? Should we evacuate?” The 911 operators could only work off the information they had. They could have told people to evacuate earlier, but Cal Fire didn’t anticipate the strength of the fire. Which is understandable. Nobody could anticipate the strength of that fire. But the 911 operators were sitting in an office with no windows, and they had no idea what was going on the east. They couldn’t look out and see exactly what was happening. If they could have, they probably would have told people to leave as soon as possible much sooner than they were told to. Instead, they waited for official confirmation, and when they did start telling people to evacuate, traffic managed to back up in a small town of 25,000 people until many of them were trapped in an unimaginable hellscape.

When people need to evacuate from a disaster, and they stay instead, far too many people - including those in positions of power – just kind of wave their hands and say, “Well, we tried.” No, we didn’t. This country made not trying its watchword, and now we’re at a point where unless you own a car, which is a luxury a lot of people cannot afford in this economy, escaping from disaster is impossible. So you can get in your car or somebody else’s car and go sit on a highway and hope your gas doesn’t run out, since none of the gas stations for 100 miles have any gas to give you, or you can stay in your house and hope you don’t die.

Sometimes, I really wish somebody would make me the head of the department of transportation. I would demand an absurd amount of money to build a better train system, to provide better transportation options for smaller towns, to provide extensive training for rescue personnel in managing evacuations like the clusterfuck in Florida this week. I would become an absolute fucking nuisance to Congress. I would be asking for money left and right to make it so that our only options as Americans weren’t to get into cars we can barely afford these days and attempt to organize our own evacuations from the growing number of natural disasters in this country.

Y’all keep posting these polls about how long you can tolerate being in a car at the same time that tens of thousands of Floridians were sitting on highways trying to get away from Tampa so they wouldn’t die in a hurricane.

We can tolerate being in a car all goddamn day. It’s because we don’t have a fucking choice, even when it’s life or death.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"WILL VISIT JAIL FARMS IN SEARCH OF POINTERS," Toronto Star. August 12, 1912. Page 2. --- Officials to Get Ideas in the StatesMen Set Free Have to Walk Home. --- The rails and ties for the new C. N. R. switch into the Industrial Farm on Yonge street are on the ground. The switch will be laid shortly, and will facilitate the receipt of lumber for improvements to the barns and buildings at the farm.

Property Commissioner Chisholm has asked Superintendent Findlay to set a date for a trip through several American cities to inspect jail farms. Plans will then be prepared for the first unit of the new dormitory buildings. It is expected that the foundations of the new structure will be excavated this winter by prison labor.

Weekly batches of prisoners continue to be sent to the farm via the Rosedale Station of the C. N. R. They are carried directly to the farm where they are taken in charge. When discharged they must find their own way back to the city.

"Do they have to walk?" the commissioner was asked.

"I am afraid they do if they haven't the money to purchase a ticket," was his reply.

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hello and welcome to the uk is a fucking hell country, part 284829494

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Anti-monarchists receive ‘intimidatory’ Home Office letter on new protest laws

Home Office claims timing of new powers, taking effect days before king’s coronation, is coincidental

Ben Quinn, Rajeev Syal and Vikram Dodd

Official warning letters have been sent to anti-monarchists planning peaceful protests at King Charles III’s coronation saying that new criminal offences to prevent disruption have been rushed into law.

Using tactics described by lawyers as “intimidatory”, the Home Office’s Police Powers Unit wrote to the campaign group Republic saying new powers had been brought forward to prevent “disruption at major sporting and cultural events”.

The new law, given royal assent by Charles on Tuesday, means that from Wednesday:

Protesters who block roads, airports and railways could face 12 months behind bars.

Anyone locking on to others, objects or buildings could go to prison for six months and face an unlimited fine.

Police will be able to head off disruption by stopping and searching protesters if they suspect they are setting out to cause chaos.

Jun Pang, a policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said: “Key measures in the bill will come into force just days before the coronation of King Charles – a significant event in our country’s history that is bound to inspire a wider national conversation and public protests. At the same time, the government are using a statutory instrument to bring draconian measures that the House of Lords threw out of the bill back from the dead, once again evading scrutiny and accountability.

“It’s worrying to see the police handed so many new powers to restrict protest, especially before a major national event. When the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act came into force, the police repeatedly misused them – in part because they simply did not understand them. Similarly, when Queen Elizabeth died, we saw police acting in inappropriate and heavy-handed ways towards protesters that violated their rights.”

Shami Chakrabarti, the former shadow attorney general, said: “During the passage of this illiberal and headline-grabbing legislation, ministers admitted that the new offence of ‘locking on’ is so broad as to catch peaceful protesters who link arms in public.

“Suspicionless stop and search is notorious for racial disparity and it is staggering that more of these provisions have brought into force so soon after Louise Casey’s devastating report [on the Met police]. The home secretary can blast ‘ecowarriors’ but this legislation may be used against anti-poverty and Ukraine solidarity protesters too.”

A statement from the home secretary, Suella Braverman, said: “This legislation is the latest step the government has taken against protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to deliberately delay members of the public, often preventing them from getting to work and hospital, as well as missing loved ones’ funerals.

“The range of new offences and penalties match the seriousness of the threat guerrilla tactics pose to our infrastructure, taxpayers’ money and police time.”

full article here

so just to sum this up, peaceful protesting can now land you in prison for a year and you might face an unlimited fine which i believe is up to £5000, and police can now stop and search you if they believe youre "setting out to cause chaos"

its specifically being put in place right before charles' coronation, but these are now considered criminal offenses so theyre not exclusive to it.

you know, a country where you can be put in prison for a year for peaceful protesting really doesnt sound like a fucking democracy to me.