Re: Risky Freight Trains

["Jeffrey Schmidt" <jschmidt66@bigpond.com>]

"Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> > "Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message >
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> > > 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.
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> 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.
>
>

A couple of thousand accident reports say otherwise Russ. Do a little
research into how transport operators work world wide. Australia is no
different.

Jeff