Re: XPT failed again

[Graham D Baker <bakerss@ozdocs.net.au>]

 For a NR Driver to be qualified for an NR Class loco it is a 3 day school
plus road trial, and an additional 1 day school for the communications
system alone.

 The shear cost alone would be prohibitive, and also due to the fact that
the FC  or C/L crews would only ever be on them once probably once in
their lifetime and only then for their trial.

 If a fatality occurred where an NR crew was involved, and the only crew
to relieve them was a FC crew, they would be allowed to crew the loco at
that location only.

 They would not be allowed to move it, until a NR crew arrived to relieve
them.

 NR could haul the XPT dead I guess, but there would be no problem with
qualified drivers, if NR train crews ran the XPT's and other loco pass's
under contract to CountryLink.

 Rgds,

Graham

tezza wrote:

> Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
> snip
>
> :Does Countrylink have any agreements with other rail operators to get
> locos to
> :rescue the dead train.
> :On the main south now,at least south of Goulburn there isnt very much
> chance
> :of simply grabbing a spare loco from somewhere.
> :NR would be about the only source.
> :
> :cheers
> :MD
>
> FreightCorp refuse to qualify Drivers for NR's, so I doubt Countrylink
> would be any different.