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

["Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au>]

Grahame Ferguson wrote in message ...
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>Eddie Oliver wrote in message <3AC0A491.D20BA7C0@efs.mq.edu.au>...
>>Frank Jones wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>Why not? That seems to be a key to the problem.
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>Why not is the KEY to the problem indeed.
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>To be an operator requires many more hours of proceedure writing,
>consultancies etc.
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>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!
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