Rail manager guilty in case of train left on B.C. mountainside without handbrakes
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REVELSTOKE, B.C. — A manager with Canadian Pacific Railway has been found guilty for his role in illegally parking a train carrying dangerous materials on a mountainside near Revelstoke, B.C.
A B.C. provincial court judge found Tim McClelland, director of dispatching in Calgary, guilty under the Railway Safety Act of contravening an emergency directive from Transport Canada.
“Despite his responsibility for overseeing the operations on that corridor of the network, and despite the confusion and frustration expressed by the crew … he did not make his plan for the movement of the train sufficiently clear before directing that it be left in emergency,” Judge Richard Hewson wrote in his July 16 decision.
“On a balance of probabilities, Mr. McClelland did not exercise all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offences.”
