Re: Risky Freight Trains

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message >
>
> Safety and maintainance has not gone "out the window" with the major
> players. Indeed, compliance now is greater than it ever has been. Smaller
> operators, where "privatisation" and "world's best practice" do not apply,
> may be another case.


FC and NR and AT are all guilty of putting profit before safety and
maintenance. Then of course there's no-one to make sure that NR and AT do
proper train inspections - which they quite often don't. Even many FC staff
don't bother to do brake retention tests any more.