New fences to prevent rail crime (BBC News)

[RF News]

Steel fencing is being used around railway lines to help prevent crimes such as trespass and graffiti.

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Why not wire them up too!

[paul miller]

Dont get me on this subject. Yet another zillion pounds being spent to keep the little gits out. They will just move somewhere else along the track wont they. Fences are not the answer, but then again people would argue that my answer is not right either. So on this occasion I am sitting on the steel fence.
Paul.

[davat]

Fences won't stop them the little bu....s get car jacks and prise the metals apart. The only thing it will stop is us decent folk getting decent photographs.

A word to Paul Miller I bet it hurts but your piles will getr better quicker

[paul miller]

Originally Posted by davat

Fences won't stop them the little bu....s get car jacks and prise the metals apart. The only thing it will stop is us decent folk getting decent photographs.

A word to Paul Miller I bet it hurts but your piles will getr better quicker

How did you know I have piles? Have my medical recordes been sold on E Bay?.
Paul.

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Originally Posted by paul miller

How did you know I have piles? Have my medical recordes been sold on E Bay?.
Paul.

Nice to see "tongue in cheek" humour on this site!
But ...................How far do Railtrack have to go to prevent trespassing?

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"piles"............"tongue in cheek".........

If all members of British society could be relied upon to act responsibly we would not need miles and miles of expensive fencing and Network Rail would save an absolute fortune. Generally speaking in most countries fencing is only required to prevent animals from straying onto the tracks.

[Andy]

As my garden backs on to a small Watford - St Albans line, it's been great since these fences went up (2yrs now), the garden is totally secure and no thieving git will have our lawnmower again. Thefts via access from the track all along the whole stretch have gone down to zero since they were erected.

[paul miller]

To be very serious about this matter. I went by coach to Disneyland Paris over the bank holiday. Of all the miles of railway track we saw, many of it the High Speed Link to Paris and beyond, what was missing from the scene? Massive fences and anything that looked like a substantial fence of any sort.
Why do we need them? For the same reason that on sale in the shops where hunting knives. Remember in this country we have stopped the sale of these, because we are told that it is because they are readily available that knife crime has gone up. Why does'nt it happen there then?
My opinion is that we are soft on these people wether it be using knives or putting things on railway tracks.
No one will tackle the issues, in fact you do well to get a policeman out to you, if you need them.
Sad, but a fact.
Paul.

[Trev]

When my dad was a fitter on King George Dock in Hull, he was occassionaly called upon to help the P-Way gang repair the fences along the KGD branch here in Hull. As he described it, it was a never ending job. No sooner had they patched up the gaps, than the little buggers would cut holes in the fence again. Makes you wonder if it's all worthwhile.

There is a school of thought amongst road designers, that it's actually a waste of time putting up warning notices on the roads, the theory being that drivers would take more care if there was an element of danger involved in driving. In other words, not being told of potential hazards would make drivers drive more carefully. I wonder if the same theory would work if applied to the problem of trespass on the railway?