10 - Sunday, August-20, 1989 - North Shore News

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WV Council objects
to speeder car loss

THE ELIMINATION of railway
“‘speeder”? cars proposed by BC
Rail for next January has been met
with disfavor by West Vancouver
District Council.

“Having lived near the railway
at one time, I can say that the
speeder cars give some degree of
comfort to people,’’ said Ald.
Mark Sager, following council’s
decision to register their disap-
proval of the scheme with BC Rail.

Council also pointed to the con-
cerns being shown by the West
Vancouver Fire Chief Colin Evans,
who is concerned with the poten-
tial reduction of rail safety in the
district.

BC Rail wants ‘to eliminate the
speeder car patrol, which scouts
for track obstructions, because
company officials say it is umnec-
essary.

But, stated Evans in a memo to
council, “The possibility of track
obstruction by a stalled vehicle or
debris or vandalism must surely be
considered as possible obstruc-
tions, not to mention rail failure
which is major cause of train acci-
dents, as is hunzan negligence such
as siding switches not being clos-
ed.”

BC Rail also transports a bread
range of hazardous materials via
its West Vancouver tracks.

According to West Vancouver
assistant engineer Gordon

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MacKay, CP Rail patrols their
tracks periodically (rather than be-
fore each train as BC Rail has
done), except in mountainous
areas.

CN Rail’s use of speeder cars is
disappearing, although tracks are
inspected periodically either on
foot or with a truck adapted to rail
use,

BC Rail proposes to eliminate
the speeder car patrols but retain
their other inspection activities,
which include weekly inspection by
a roadmaster and twice weekly in-
spection by alternate inspection
crews.

The assistant roadmaster and
maintenance crews are always
somewhere on the track, which is
always electronically monitored.

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