Re: The NSW Rail Safety Act.
Jim Gordon (j.gordon@bigpond.com)
1 May 97 20:22:26 GMT
David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
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> 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].