>David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
><5k8ks3$net$2@gruvel.une.edu.au>...
>>
>> 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.
>> > >In the not to distant future Victorian Enginemen will have to carry
>their licences that the N.S.W. conterparts have to carry[$2000 fine for
>driving a train in N.S.W. if the driver has'nt got it on him], I don't call
>this sabre rattleing, they have been givern a very big stick, and a very
>fragile box of eggs have the DOT, and the breuracrats don't seem to mind
>who ends up getting splattered.
>As for someone mentioning about Victorian broad gauge equipment operating
>in N.S.W., many is the time that I have seen Vic'y stock operating beyond
>where it should have gone,ie- VQLX's in Werris Creek,VHGY/X's in
>Cootamundra, seems a bit more than a sugestion to me, [I have photographic
>evedence to back these claims].
I got hold of a copy of this Act, its actually on the WEB,and whilst the aims
of the Act are themselves worthwhile,in actual practice I simply cannot see
how it can work,unless the bureacrats in DOT who are administering this Act
are themselves qualified in all aspects of Railway operation which Im sure
that they are not.
cheers
Maurie Daly
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Maurie Daly
Department of Communications Lab.
Canberra
Australia
mauried@commslab.gov.au
ph 6 2791331
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