Railtrack contractors - East Midlands

[benedmonds]

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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[Mark Bolam]

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

[benedmonds]

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. 

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, benedmonds said:

Railtrack,

Railtrack was the privately owned network operator that went out of business to be replaced by the government owned Network Rail who don't appear to be accountable to anyone other than the office of raill regulation for safety stuff.

[dan blocker]

Because of the problem for land owners to manage tees next to rail lines are Network Rail not responsible for dangerous/ dead/ problem trees adjacent to the network that could fall onto their property? I’m not 100% sure but heard it many moons ago🤔

[dumper]

Try ground control do a lot of railway works

[patrickgalloway3]

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.

[benedmonds]

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..

[LGP Eddie]

Try Richard Sanders at Total Trees, that’s his patch.