Hoo Junction Training Exercise
7th March 1993: By David Morgan
On Saturday 7th March 1993, the Trainload Freight division of BR hosted a joint emergency exercise with other departments and the emergency services at Hoo Junction. The emergency scenario assumed that a car waiting at Shornmead Level Crossing had been struck by a bus and pushed onto the crossing, where it had then been hit and pushed along the line by a passing train. Numerous suitably made up casualties were dotted around the scene and the fire brigade provided smoke canisters to simulate a fire on board the train – unfortunately these worked rather too well and some real fire damage occurred. The train was formed of Training Unit 930997 (ADB977780 / 778 / 779 / 777), whilst the fire brigade provided a suitably damaged car, and Maidstone & District supplied bus No. 5847.
7th March 1993
Here we see the car occupants and train driver ready and waiting just prior to the initial 999 call being made.
© David Morgan
7th March 1993
A few minutes after the 999 call was made, the first fire engine arrives on the scene. By this time the smoke canisters
in the second coach were having some effect. © David Morgan
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