Re: Risky Freight Trains

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

"Jeffrey Schmidt" <jschmidt66@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
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> A couple of thousand accident reports say otherwise Russ. Do a little
> research into how transport operators work world wide. Australia is no
> different.

How many of these *couple of thousand* accident reports are directly
attributed to a willful disregard of safety procedures, due to cost cutting
(which was Tezza's argument). No-one would be operating trains if this was
the case.

Australia is different. Have a look at how many major smashes occur (on
almost a daily basis) in third world railways, where they are still trying
to define the word *safe* in safeworking.

Russ.