Re: Sunday Telegraph: Airport-style security checks to be introduced at mainline rail stations

Dave Spencer wrote:
>
> b) Will they have scanners at Tyndrum Lower, or Berney Arms, or
> Albrighton, or Eggesford?

Unfortunately the small number of passengers using these stations makes
it financially unviable to equip them to modern standards of security.
They will be closed to passenger traffic forthwith, and bus connections
provided to the nearest secure railhead.

Good job no-one takes bombs on buses, isn't it? oh, wait a minute....

OK, OK, there will be Permit to Travel machines at all these insecure
minor stations. Passengers will have to check themselves in, press
Button A if they're /not/ carrying a bomb, or Button B if they /are/
carrying a bomb, and then they will be allowed to travel forward.
Passengers carrying heavy or bulky bombs are asked to put them beneath
seats and /not/ on the overhead luggage racks or in the aisles.

Just as long as they're not carrying a can of lager, of course. :-)
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