Re: Vale Vic Steam (and all special trains?)

["Michael Wierzbinski" <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au>]

All tourist railways are required to be accredited.

"Paul Nicholson" <pn1@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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> What about Puffing Billy and other tourist operations in Victoria? Surely
> they are accredited operators in their own right and would have had to go
> through the process of  "hours of procedure writing, consultancies etc."? I
> recall that the Ballarat museum tramway advising its members that it was one
> of the first groups to complete the process of accreditation.
> Paul in Melbourne.
> .
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> "Graham Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Eddie Oliver wrote in message <3AC0A491.D20BA7C0@efs.mq.edu.au>...
> > >Frank Jones wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Many problems arise from the 'accredited operator' status (or
> > >> otherwise) of the various groups. You see, *none* of the groups in
> > >> Vic. (unlike say RTM in NSW) are accredited operators in their own
> > >> right.
> > >
> > >Why not? That seems to be a key to the problem.
> >
> > Why not is the KEY to the problem indeed.
> >
> > To be an operator requires many more hours of procedure writing,
> > consultancies etc.
> >
> > Time and money that volunteer organizations do not have.  A vast diversion
> > of resources from restoring and maintaining rolling stock, to the
> equivalent
> > of a quality assurance department.  It requires many hours of book work
> and
> > procedure auditing to achieve the status of an accredited supplier of
> > rolling stock and to stay at that standard, for which all are annually
> > audited.  To be an accredited operator in Victoria is a quantum leap.  It
> is
> > one which all desire to attain, but in the short term it is not possible!
> >
> >
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