Fixing the fences is the engineering choice to lower the death rate on
railways, ATC is the political solution to lowering the death rate on
railways.

I reckon the death rate of people getting through fences to access the
rails is in the noise compared with the incidents on crossings and the
like.

And at stations.

In the noise too unless your including the London underground different
scenario and I suppose if you discount all the women around southall and
hayes and harlington which distort the national figure;(

Fencing railways is to keep the railway in and not the public out ! its
on an old bit of rail legislation from 1800 odd!...

Railway tends to stray, does it?


Suppose they thought it might at one point;!..

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Tony Sayer