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

["keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>]

And all NSW operators. The ARHS (ACT) is an accredited operator which even
uses "non railway" crews on main lines through out NSW. All this has been
achieved by volunteer time with little impact on operations.It's something
we had to do we had no choice.

Dave Malcolm

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 proceedure 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.
> .
>
> "Grahame 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 proceedure writing,
> > consultancies etc.
> >
> > Time and money that volunteer organisations do not have.  A vast
deversion
> > of resouces from restoring and maintaining rolling stock, to the
> equivilent
> > of a quality assurance department.  It requires many hours of book work
> and
> > proceedure 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!
> >
> >
>
>