Recent content by RPTC

With the arrival of 68's on AGA services, how can I find out what services they are due to run on? Thanks.

With the seriousness of the problems and the legal responsibilities that rests on any company who sub-contracts to WCRC, the real damage is that their corporate customers should be looking elsewhere, as Belmond have done. A luxury brand like Belmond needs a well run, properly managed supplier...

Don't know about trains, but haulage companies are required by law to verify that every driver has the correct licence in place before they drive. They also have to keep records of this and can be prosecuted if they don't comply. Would be surprised if the same did not apply to the railways.

We have that in our road vehicles, and explicit statements that it can be sampled. It rarely happens as our management has more than enough to do. Perhaps you should write a business case for efficiency savings as it sounds like you have too many managers with not enough work. It can't be...

I don't get the mentality of those who bang on about some mythical and imagined anti-steam vendetta. Imagine the media outcry if some company was running ancient planes in and out of Heathrow with zero hour crews, inadequate training and safety systems, and had a near miss with another airliner...

I' no expert in railway offences but do know about enforcement elsewhere. If it is a strict liability offence then all that needs to be proven is the offence i.e. wrong ticket You can mitigate all you like but Strict Liability offences do not allow for this and some are extremely harsh...

Have you read the full 9 page letter, with things like WCRC did not have up to date route maps, had no idea if its crews had the necessary knowledge etc? No one knows, not even WCRC, if its crews were up to scratch or had access to the required information to perform the tasks competently...

I'm afraid you do not appear to understand health and safety. There are several levels to it. There is no "leniency", and without getting bogged down in safety management, a key issue is the high level safety culture and processes. As we stand now, whatever the facts of the Reading incident...

Utter cobblers. The behaviour of WCRC at various points regarding safety at various points was a disgrace and it is by pure luck that they are not the wrong end of a mass fatality collision and some serious prosecutions and paying for funeral expenses. I suggest you start at the beginning of...

Not uncommon to find companies avoid having specifically named individuals who are "in the frame" if something goes wrong, given they could end up in prison. The people now involved at WCR will have only done so if they have a large degree of autonomy to change whatever they think is required...

They probably will have, but the simple fact is NR are bound by the legislation and regulations governing the suspension and the basis of it. NR issued the suspension and said it would be removed if specific requirements were complied with. As it appears that these have complied with they have...

Probably more to do with his perception of the skill levels required between operating a coach and a steam train, and the role of maintaining skills. I've not operated either, but a non-working coach driver is still maintaining basic skills by driving their car on the road, skills probably first...

Errr, I'm not a railway worker but presumably as the signaller noticed the junction was blocked by a stationary train that was supposed to further back on the line. And I would assume in this day and age some system will have alerted them to the SPAD. Plus I believe everything is recorded in the...

The irony is that if people had spent less time on the conspiracy theories and more time complying with basic safety practices there wouldn't be a threat to steam. And how arrogant is it to not cooperate with NR on safety? What planet are some of these people on? How can it be good for a...

To better understand the situation I'd suggest reading this arbitrators decision regarding an earlier incident involving WCR. This occured in 2014 and the report came out in October. Note the comments about WCR's safety performance, especially their actions in section 5.7, as well as the...