Working close to railway

[drinksloe]

Been a good few years since i worked on the rails, but really NR only concerned with trees if branches come within 5m of there tracks/lines/infrastructure.

I have been into private gardens and sided trees up if the branches were inside the 5m.

 

Must admit i think i'd just go on and do the job without speaking to them officaly.

As long as job is straight forward and ur very confident u can do it, just ower any limb on the far side of tree. If that was a road 30m away would u still be happy reducing the tree??

But at same time if u have plenty other work on is it even worth it?

[peatff]

Why do you need NR permission to work in a client's garden, is the bank vertical and the trees on the rail side ? Crack on and just watch where you drop stuff.

[Khriss]

If you demonstrate safe workpractice and they ain't near running rail, I would just do it. The paperwork is a nightmare for us with Third Party tree works on our boundary fences. Don't go over to retrve any twigs or branches as that's trespass.  That will get cleared by the land management teams , if ever. K

[Con]

1 hour ago, peatff said:

Why do you need NR permission to work in a client's garden, is the bank vertical and the trees on the rail side ? Crack on and just watch where you drop stuff.

Thanks. I didn't know if I need permission which is why I put the post up. I thought I might need to inform the rail. Since 2004 I have never done a job anywhere near a rail track and then I was working for someone. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

17 hours ago, openspaceman said:

the cock up that KMBE's mates

I'm guessing you mean the Conservative party?

 

What makes you think they are my mates?

 

I like Boris and JRM, Thatcher was decades ahead of her time, there may be a few others that are noteworthy, but there are many that I dislike intensely.

 

That said, the current state of the Labour Party under Corbyn is a nightmare waiting to (hopefully never) happen.

 

If I had to choose one or the other as a binary choice it'd be a no-brainer - but that's not to say I'd vote Tory if a viable option was available.