Trainspotter attacked @ Reading West

[allypally]

Why would you staff a station like Talsarnau with about 12 passengers a year that is a wooden hut on a .5 carriage long wooden platform?

[6rdfar90]

Yes, well obviously there are some limits... I think he probably meant like mainline stations should be staffed. And IMO they should be as well. Any station that has passengers boarding/leaving trains should have staff.

[superdrive1]

Yes, well obviously there are some limits... I think he probably meant like mainline stations should be staffed. And IMO they should be as well. Any station that has passengers boarding/leaving trains should have staff.

Yes, Mainline stations and any station with a large passenger flow using it.

[allypally]

They wouldn't anywhere near pay for themselves.

Talsarnau has people boarding and leaving trains.

So occasionally do Golf Links, Buckenham, Manea and other little used stations.

By your logic all would be staffed.

How do you define what is large enough to be staffed, or busy enough, and how do you deal with borderline?

[superdrive1]

What do I call busy, 50,000 people or more using the station each year is a busy station IMO and I would think a lot of stations have 50,000 or more people using them.

[6rdfar90]

Well, if they aren't staffed - then there should be at least some sort of security in place to make sure things like this dont happen. Any old tourist looking for train times at an unstaffed station could easily be mugged if someone who knows the area well enough knows a train wont be for a while, and there wont be any people around. All they have to do is to wait.

[superdrive1]

How about on all of Britain's train station's there's either staff or CCTV. Not nothing.

[allypally]

You're reacting reflexively to one incident.

I believe most incidents occur on staffed stations, not unstaffed.

[chester025]

Anyway back on topic...

I do hope the gent makes a speedy recovery, and that he continues photting/spotting!

[richard222]

Sorry to anyone for the stirring post.

Quick inspection says its unstaffed after 10:45 am

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/RDW.html

I will leave my thoughts on this out for courtesys sake and to stop littering this thread.

[hitch840]

Criminal scum who commit crimes of any description on railway property should be tied to the tracks and run over with a freight train!!!!

[doclivcm]

Criminal scum who commit crimes of any description on railway property should be tied to the tracks and run over with a freight train!!!!

I have to disagree with that as I wouldn't want any driver to have a one-under. Now on the other hand maybe using that remote-control nuclear train from the 80s would be better!!!

DOC

[Matloughe]

Just as an aside about staffing I know it is off topic slightly... All London Underground stations HAVE to be manned to be open; perhaps the same rule should be applied to Mainline stations IMHO and in the example of the station with only 12 passengers using it then why have it?

Again a la London Underground has closed little used stations such as York Road that had a few hundred people using it a day and cited the speed benefits as a justification to balance the removal of the service the ''Needs of the Many etc''

Again I hope this gentleman recovers.

Cheers,
~ Matloughe

[danielw2599]

How do you suppose we pay for staffing ALL stations? Would you guys be happy with a 150% fare hike to pay for it????

[allypally]

Why close them? A line like the Cambrian Coast where Talsarnau is located is covered in tiny request stop stations. They don't increase journey times by any significant amount, the linespeed is already only between 20 and 35 miles per hour, using modern 158 units that can stop quickly and take off again as required.

If you were to look at the crime statistics I would be very surprised if any of them had crime commited on them in recent memory.