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Does anyone know who works track side in the East midlands (Derby way), I have a client with trees next to the track, including a fairly big dead ash.

I loath working with Railtrack, not sure I want to jump through the hoops including the £20,000,000 insurance, bird and bat surveys.

We have been trying to get an estimate for the supervision since well before Christmas and the chance of getting done before bird nesting is now impossible.  

 

It would be 3 days work in the day probably more at night depends how often Railtrack stop the work for trains.. 

Line blockages are available between:
Midweek nights 00:05 – 05:30 or Saturday nights 23:30 – 07:30

 

I am thinking the client might get a better value from someone who already work for Railtrack as they will be used to their way of working.

Railtrack won't tell me who their contractors are..?

 

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3 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Slight derail Ben but did those trackside connies ever get done?

Yes, we did those after jumping through the many hoops including formal tractor training for someone who had been driving tractors for decades... These are same section of track probably less than a km away but definitely need more supervision...  Annoyingly the track was closed due to flooding for a number of weeks last year. 

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7 hours ago, patrickgalloway3 said:

If the trees are a threat to the railway there is a good chance network rail will remove them free of charge. Other contractors who might operate in that area are QTS and taziker.

They are NOT willing to remove FOC... Quite the opposite.. 

I will look up QTS and Taziker..

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