Sunday, September 09, 2007

The cost of trespassing on the railways?

To all those would-be trespassers at Kings Sutton: if you are mad enough to wish to trespass, do be aware that it's cheaper to do so at the south end of the down platform than at the north end of the same platform. Only £200 fine at the south, against a hefty £1000 at the north end.

This is the south end:


Here's the north end:


Trespassing is of course often infinitely more costly than the payment of a mere several hundred pounds, as a number of fatalities - particularly, sadly, of younger people - over the past months have emphasised only too well.
The folly of trespassing aside, however, it's odd that, while busily decomissioning the foot crossing at the north end of the station and installing a rather smart and grandiose (at least for the size of station) modular footbridge, Network Rail didn't see fit to make the two signs consistent. The least of their concerns, no doubt.

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