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


"A Woodcraft" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Paul Scott" <notvalidpmscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>"Dave" <d@xxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> Well they could just ask the Spanish who have already got such a
>>> kneejerk
>>> system set up. I was travelling there over the summer and it is exactly
>>> the sort of ridiculous farce that people have predicted in the rest of
>>> this thread. Despite the bombs in Madrid being planted on commuter
>>> trains,
>>> the security is uniquely limited to the long distance intercity
>>> services.
>>> People are still free to come and go at will onto the Cercanias local
>>> trains, yet if you are going long distance everything has to be scanned
>>> and your name has to be on the list.
>>>
>>> Dave
>
> So how does this work? Do all tickets have to be booked in advance?

They did on the services I was using. I didn't see any evidence of walk on
fare purchasing.


>
> Have they re-built their stations to segregate Inter-City from local
> traffic, or were they like that already? There are plenty of stations
> in the UK where such segregration would be challenging, to put it
> mildly.
>

The setup consists of a mobile x-ray machine, mobile metal detector "door
frame" and several of those posts with extending cords that are used to
direct queues. In one location this was put across a platform between the
entrance and the train, in several other locations it was just at the top of
the esculator leading down to the platform. It is designed to be moved from
platform to platform. However, the joke is that while you are getting
scanned on one platform, the adjacent platform and train could be unguarded.
All baggage going into lockers has to go through the same routine and you
must have a ticket to use them.


Dave

Dave


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