Time was they'd have brought in their own breakdown crew and rail mounted cranes; the mishap being cleared in a day or two. Now they bring in contractors to build a temporary access road and a massive crane at, God knows, what cost.
Yes in house years ago that derailment would have been handled easily enough. Too many fingers in the pie with privatisation, costs increase, without any significant performance improvement in a lot of cases.
Much cheaper to hire in special kit and specialists on the rare occasion you need them than pay for kit and crew to wait around for an accident to take place.
Nobody waited around for a call out the staff used on the breakdown train were all employed in the loco sheds as fitting staff and labourers who were paid a little extra if they were called to an incident.
Hardly call it a train crash, more likely the road spread or a broken wheel jornal
.a class 56 was laid on it side and removed first. brakes failed on loco at hunt cliff an ran away, So yes it was a crash. I DO KNOW THE DIFFERNCE
@@RTTVProductions the brakes failed always thought that if the brakes fail then the brakes should lock on, as a fail safe device,
Time was they'd have brought in their own breakdown crew and rail mounted cranes; the mishap being cleared in a day or two. Now they bring in contractors to build a temporary access road and a massive crane at, God knows, what cost.
Yes in house years ago that derailment would have been handled easily enough.
Too many fingers in the pie with privatisation, costs increase, without any significant performance improvement in a lot of cases.
Much cheaper to hire in special kit and specialists on the rare occasion you need them than pay for kit and crew to wait around for an accident to take place.
Nobody waited around for a call out the staff used on the breakdown train were all employed in the loco sheds as fitting staff and labourers who were paid a little extra if they were called to an incident.