Call the midwife 2!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Wow. I've never filled a thread before!

I don't think Sister Crane (who they said was having a week's holiday in Kent after her international travels), will have been on a train from Chelmsford (Essex) but stranger things have happened at sea!

When were steam trains phased out - 70s?

Was the driver supposed to be having a fit? I thought he was just nodding off.

The train filmed was a diesel loco (DH is a train nerd!) but the line from Chelmsford to London was third rail electrified at that point so people would actually have been in more danger on the tracks than in the coaches.

@GruffaloSolja yes. He's probably got a brain tumour.

I thought the driver was having a stroke.

I normally watch CTM a week late (and catch up on this thread a week late too). But the spoiler on here a week ago and it being headline news have made me watch it yesterday.

I thought the train driver might have sleep apnea. What were the pills supposed to be?

I thought the train driver might have sleep apnea. What were the pills supposed to be?

He was having headaches so I assume he was taking painkiller - asprin probably.

I thought it was pointing to a brain tumour

yes the train driver/husband mentioned headaches, and i thought it was salt he was taking, but i guess aspirin came in those funny bottles?

[quote Toddlerteaplease]@GruffaloSolja yes. He's probably got a brain tumour. [/quote]
Ah, that would make more sense and explain why he didn't let go of the dead man's handle. I remember the driver involved in the Moorgate tube crash was supposed to have had a seizure that prevented him releasing the dead man's handle.

One of my friends who did stay on the BEd didn’t pass her A levels, but the teaching certificate qualified her to continue to the degree

Sorry, but this is appalling. So she could then go on and teach A level without passing it herself? I, for one, am glad you need a degree these days.

That doesn't make sense. The friend got a degree. She was in the same position as a mature student who didn't do well at school or didn't get the change to stay on to do exams, and is later accepted onto a degree course after doing an Access course or Foundation year. Lots of late developers do extremely well on their degree courses, and a good many who got decent grades at school flounder at university and drop out.

*chance

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

That doesn't make sense. The friend got a degree. She was in the same position as a mature student who didn't do well at school or didn't get the change to stay on to do exams, and is later accepted onto a degree course after doing an Access course or Foundation year. Lots of late developers do extremely well on their degree courses, and a good many who got decent grades at school flounder at university and drop out.

I suppose you're right, I didn't see it that way. I think because they failed and then straight away did the degree seemed weird.

Access courses are sometimes used to go to on to universities

Nursing is sometimes done this way as the students struggle with exams but write assignments

After all nursing didn't used to need a degree.

Maybe primary school teacher with access degree?

I mean access rather than A levels

The train crash was filmed at the bottom of my garden (watercress line), it was very well screened off so we couldn’t see much and it was all done in the middle of the night. It was two weeks of excitement anyway!

Wow! Did you have to sign some sort of confidentiality agreement? How exciting. I'd have burst!

Oh, we love the Watercress Line and have been so many times over the years, although now DS is 18, it no longer holds the same appeal for him
Which part of the line did they film on fanacapan?

@GruffaloSolja I did quite a lot of reading into the Moorgate disaster. Apparently the investigation team thought privately that it was suicide. But from what I read it was very unlikely. I think he had some sort of black out of seizure. As he was seen staring straight ahead.

[quote Toddlerteaplease]@GruffaloSolja I did quite a lot of reading into the Moorgate disaster. Apparently the investigation team thought privately that it was suicide. But from what I read it was very unlikely. I think he had some sort of black out of seizure. As he was seen staring straight ahead. [/quote]
I can see why the investigators thought it was a suicide. But even so, to drive full speed into a wall and to not react is very unusual. I know that when his body was found his hand was still on the dead man's handle. He'd not even put his arms up to protect himself from the impact. Which is odd. And if it was a suicide attempt he would have been aware that it was likely that passengers would die in the crash. Nothing anybody has said since indicates even in hindsight that he was the sort of person to commit suicide or harm others.

It was the crash, the view of the station through the train windows is Alresford. The carriage arrived battered and they set up explosions and fires, there was a lot of noise but couldn’t see anything and they were very tight lipped about it all!

We did have letters through our doors saying what was going to happen but no mention of what they were filming but it became common knowledge very quickly!

I think there could be a death in the Turner family but not necessarily the good Dr. There must be a reason Timothy came home and the actor has said these two episodes were the most emotionally and physically draining he’s ever done but that he’s incredibly proud of them. Not sure lying on the sofa with GF would elicit that sort of reaction. But it could also be Fred with the fireworks. I definitely think there’ll be a fatality on the ground.

@Puffalicious

One of my friends who did stay on the BEd didn’t pass her A levels, but the teaching certificate qualified her to continue to the degree

Sorry, but this is appalling. So she could then go on and teach A level without passing it herself? I, for one, am glad you need a degree these days.

Most teachers teaching A level students would have had a degree in the subject but BEd was a degree and she could have taught her main subject. I think that would only happen if the school couldn't get anyone better qualified so fairly unlikely. On the other hand teachers still occasionally get asked to teach subjects other than the one their degree was in.

@GruffaloSolja no, and he had £200 in his pocket as he was going to by his daughter a car after his shift. I think he had some sort of medical event, but due to the higher temperatures in the tunnel and the delay at getting him out. A detailed post Mortem wasn't possible.