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Riverwalk Wed 17-Jul-19 15:40:49

The window was a 'conductor's window', although there was no conductor on the train.

I think the safety issue is that no-one other than a conductor should have been able to open and look out. Schoolboys fooling around, wouldn't look at safety notices, and need to be protected.

It so easily could have been a minor, not a young man.

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Rosina Wed 17-Jul-19 15:24:06

I have just read about the young man who was killed when leaning out of a train window; evidently the railway company is to be fined £1,000,000. What is the purpose of a fine of this size, or indeed a fine at all? It will be funded by the fare paying public eventually. A terrible tragedy, an accident caused by a moment's thoughtlessness, but surely putting your head out of a moving train window is not something most people would do, and evidently this young man was a train enthusiast and had worked on preservation lines in his spare time. There was a warning notice on the door. You do begin to wonder how far measures must go to warn the public about dangerous possibilities, and how compensation or fines are relevant in a lot of cases.

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