Great Western Railway

[knutstransport]

RE: Great Western Railway
The fine was because they were told 2 months earlier a risk assessment was done and GWR hadn't actioned the point about adding more visible warning signs to the droplight windows.

[507022]

RE: Great Western Railway
The point I was trying to make was that it was NR’s fault that there were overhanging tree branches so close to the tracks. Maybe NR has been fined for that incident as well,
I don’t know. What I do know is that prior to privatisation when BR ran weedkilling trains (admittedly the stuff they used the killed off everything within10 yards!) there wouldn’t have been a need for such complicated risk assessments.
Nowadays NR don’t seem to bother - I’ve seen main lines that appear to have a garden growing in the “four foot”

[knutstransport]

RE: Great Western Railway
It's likely what BR used that killed everything has been banned. Using chemicals is supposed to be a last resort these days. Hence, the Network Rail 'trainsaw massacres'

They do also submit responses to planning applications near train lines saying which types of trees should and shouldn't be planted on private land close to railway lines. Partly due to reduce the wrong type of leaves falling on the line.