Re: Risky Freight Trains

["Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "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.

Of course you have evidence of all this (in addition to mealroom gossip or
personal opinion), and of course you have also formally advised RAC and the
Department of Transport of these very serious breaches.

Major operators are very concerned about safety, and continuously review
performance and compliance. Disregarding safety procedures places an
operator in a position of losing their accreditation to run trains,a
situation which would have an obvious effect on an operators profit.

Russ.