Anyone else watching it

Its about the rail crash at Potter's bar in 2002


Brian

 

Brian,

I watched that program........was shocked at the attitude of Jarvis (the line maintainence contractors), not allowing it's employees to answer ANY questions without a company solicitor being present

Also, with the points slider bar lock nuts working loose and causing that accident (8 fatalaties and many horific injuries), why wer'nt they using Nylock nuts throughout the network - a proven solution where vibration would be a problem

And then, towards the end of the program seeing video proof that the Jarvis staff (or sub-contractors) blatently did not know how to use/tighten simple lock nuts

 

It don't give me any confidence after seeing that

And im a Train Driver but not over that bit of line.

Steve.

 

Yeah i saw most of it, it's shocking that people like that are in charge of something like railway maintanence.

 

Its all over.
Jobs go out to the cheapest tender most of the time.

Agency staff, crap training. It shouldnt be allowed.

 

The program certainly made interesting viewing.

While at work today, I had a look at a couple of sets of points on a mainline. The stretcher bars had not been replaced with the new "cam locking" nuts - still had the old type locking nuts on them

Altho, Jarvis no longer do ANY maintenence on the railway - its all done "in house" by Network Rail

 

When I worked in secuirty, I was contracted to work security when they installed the new bridge at the Potters Bar station. Was a spectacular site seeing them actually lift and install the already put together bridge

Didn't see the sho tho.....