This summer on my holiday in the west of England just about every photo I took of a loco-hauled train featured class 47 bashers “flailing” out of the window. As far as I know, nobody suffered the fate of this guy.
But why would someone hang out of the window of a 4-CIG enough to have a fatal encounter with a tunnel? It’s not as if there’s any “thrash” with an electric multiple unit. Sadly the HSE Taliban will use this as an excuse to insist no trains can have windows that open (so no more taking photos from moving trains!)
Of course, the BBC illustrates this with a class 455, which doesn’t have opening windows.
