Re: The NSW Rail Safety Act.

David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
30 Apr 1997 23:33:23 GMT

Jim Gordon (j.gordon@bigpond.com) wrote:
>Maurie Daly <mauried@commslab.gov.au> wrote in article
><mauried.31.3366896B@commslab.gov.au>...
>> There have been a number of posts recently about issues relating in NSW
>to the
>> DOT and the Rail Safety Act.
>
>The genral ruling seems to be that any land between the fence line is
>considerd to be Victoria, therefore , Victorian Enginemen do not have to be
>qualified in any N.S.W. safeworking, also, David Bromage, how do you
>explain broad gauge equipment running into Deniliquin if they are not
>certified to operate in N.S.W.

You explained it well enough yourself. I suspect it was just a bit of
sabre rattling on the part of the DOT. Probably somebody pointed out that
there is NO bg rollingstock certified to run in NSW.

Cheers
David