{"id":51579,"date":"2016-01-29T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51579"},"modified":"2016-01-29T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:25:17","slug":"train-tragedy-averted-by-level-crossing-gate-keeper-should-be-heavily-rewarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/29\/train-tragedy-averted-by-level-crossing-gate-keeper-should-be-heavily-rewarded\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAIN TRAGEDY AVERTED BY LEVEL CROSSING GATE-KEEPER, SHOULD BE HEAVILY REWARDED."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Susantha Wijesinghe<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Level Crossing Gate Keeper had closed his gates and was expecting an Express train to come from a certain Direction, when he noticed that there was another train coming from the Opposite Direction, on the same tracks.\u00a0He immediately took a decision to hail or gesture to the Engine Driver, not to proceed but to stop the train. The Engine Driver took serious notice and brought his train to a halt. The other Express train Driver too, noticing a Train on the same tracks, in the opposite direction, engaged to bring his Train to a Halt<strong>.\u00a0\u00a0THE TWO ENGINES STOPPED WITHIN A DISTANCE OF ABOUT TEN FEET OF EACH OTHER.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> This should be truly International News.<\/p>\n<p>The timely, spontaneous, decision taken by the Level Crossing Gate-Keeper,<strong>\u00a0 possibly saved the lives of at least a thousand people on both Trains<\/strong>, MIRACULOUSLY\u00a0AVERTING a disastrous tragedy, of life and limb, which may have been THE BIGGEST TRAIN DISASTER OF OUR TIME. Both are Express Trains.<\/p>\n<p>Serious decision making, and decision taking\u00a0 can come from such a simple man as the LEVEL CROSSING GATE-KEEPER. HE SHOULD \u00a0BE GARLANDED FOR HIS BRAVE ACTION, AND SHOULD BE HEAVILY REWARDED. I believe that the President and Prime Minister would hear of this simple mans action, and respond positively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susantha Wijesinghe The Level Crossing Gate Keeper had closed his gates and was expecting an Express train to come from a certain Direction, when he noticed that there was another train coming from the Opposite Direction, on the same tracks.\u00a0He immediately took a decision to hail or gesture to the Engine Driver, not to proceed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}