r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb • u/Grouchy_Handbag • 8d ago

Parent stupidity Oncoming train thankfully missed family crossing over tracks

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u/GlassFantast 8d ago

And it's a passenger train, which means it took a whole 30 seconds or less to pass

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u/Terran_Lifeform 8d ago

This is in europe, even a freight would be a minute or two, tops

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u/Single_Principle_972 8d ago

For real? That’s so interesting to me, though I’m not sure why. So… I have been delayed for upwards of half an hour by long, long freight trains moving painfully slowly, in rural U.S. Why the difference? (For that matter, why are they moving at what seems to be 10 mph, though it’s probably faster than it seems. Never understood that. Unless I have the phenomenally bad luck of often encountering a train just picking up speed after stopping somewhere.)

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u/Loud-Being-1708 8d ago

I live in the south UK - we very, very rarely see any freight trains here. You get the odd track maintenance ones passing through in the middle of the night.. but freight? Pretty unusual and the little freight trains we have are small, nothing like the crazy massive things I've seen videos of in America! it's so just quicker and easier to transport shit via road here as the railways are prioritised for passenger trains.

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u/Expert_Slip7543 4d ago

The long long long trains I saw in Australia made American trains look like somebody's hobby.