How quaint - a night job where everyone doesn’t glow in the dark. But the OH&S thingy that surprised me is that the crane crew look like they’re wearing Dunlop Volley sandshoes. It’d be only heavy steel capped boots these days, and I doubt lighter weight safety shoes - like the steel capped Volleys available now - would be acceptable.

In the caption under the video the critical words are “the line had not been officially closed”. I reckon the RTA (now RMS) would have got much legal advice on their obligation to reopen this crossing, looking for a way to weasel out of doing it, but as it was an “unclosed” railway they had no choice in the matter. If the current government’s mad plans for a tollroad through the area proceed I’m sure the RMS could contrive some “insurmountable technical difficulties” standing in the way of keeping the National Park line open.

Tony G

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> > Interesting to note no or very few hard hats. No bollards seemingly

> > as well although they were probably there somewhere. Down in Mexico

> > VicRoads would have had an exclusion zone of about 10kms around the

> > site and the next 10kms would have been 40kmph speed limit. Tongue

> > in cheek but not as far as you might think.

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> It was in 1993 or so and the excessive 'safety' cuture was only just

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> So do this crossing now would require all of the above and more. It

> would probably be deemed impossible.

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