Practically Classics Forum

french train company sncf/ter have just bought & paid for 1300 trains and they are too wide for the tracks... 50 million euro to fix it.. you really couldnt make it up!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27497727

The error seems to have happened because the national rail operator RFF gave the wrong dimensions to train company SNCF.

Not quite as funny but the factory at work was surveyed before the layout being re-designed and new tooling, etc being ordered. They started installing it on Monday only to find that the plans show the factory as being 8 meters longer than it really is.
Someone doesn't know how to use a laser measure!

In Birmingham's Broad Street is a bridge that spans between the Hyatt Hotel and the convention centre. When it was delivered it was almost a metre short, that's why there is a glazed porch at the hotel to make up the difference. It was nicknamed the 'Bridge of wrong size'!

I worked at a company where the Commercial Director ordered a brand new delivery van. 6 wheeler 10 ton capacity it looked superb. Sadly it was too high to go under the loading bay canopy or into the service garage. It supposedly went away to be modified......we never saw it again!

A mate of mine lived on a housing estate where British Gas offered everybody a new gas fired central heating boiler to replace the oil fired ones that all the houses had. One Saturday BG arrived in force and started ripping out all the oil fired systems. They then discovered there was no gas on the estate!! Everybody was then asked to pay the share of a new gas main.

they walk among us.... just who lets them breed??

rich. wrote:they walk among us.... just who lets them breed??

Stupid can't work out how to use a rubber. That's why there are so many of them