Smoking on train platform

chivers1977

Will just have to see what the magistrate decides I guess. Fingers crossed!

jimpix12

Tales like this make me so angry and fed up with living in this country.

OP, move to warmer climbs and your husband would likely be able to smoke wherever the hell he wants.


If you let him, that is.

robt_2

omelette451 wrote: »

Incidentally, the only train company not to ban smoking on platforms is Merseyrail. A huge mistake imo (especially given that platforms here are so much shorter than they are elsewhere so there's no way to avoid someone's smoke), but I have a feeling it's because all their staff smoke like chimneys and they don't want to cause industrial unrest by asking them to go outside.

Come on now!

The minimum length of a train on Merseyrail is three carriages and all platforms are long enough for six carriages minimum - that is hardly causing you to be unable to avoid others smoke!

And this is coming from a non-smoker .

Poppy9

This should be dealt with via a fixed penalty not wasting time and expense in issuing summons etc.

It's a bit like the London Congestion charge. If you ring up to pay after 10pm on the day they refuse payment and instead fine you and give you the right to appeal etc. Even if they charged double for after 10pm it would be so bad but a blooming fine.

omelette451

robt wrote: »

Come on now!
The minimum length of a train on Merseyrail is three carriages and all platforms are long enough for six carriages minimum - that is hardly causing you to be unable to avoid others smoke!
And this is coming from a non-smoker .

But why should I have to go right down to the dog-end of a platform just to avoid being poisoned? Especially when it's unnecessary even on enormous mainline platforms at places such as Crewe. And to pick out just one particular example, the staff 'garden' at Birkenhead North is right under the footbridge, and it is therefore impossible to cross the tracks without getting a noseful.

goldspanners

....and then the big smokey diesel train rolls into the station...

jimpix12

omelette451 wrote: »

But why should I have to go right down to the dog-end of a platform just to avoid being poisoned? Especially when it's unnecessary even on enormous mainline platforms at places such as Crewe. And to pick out just one particular example, the staff 'garden' at Birkenhead North is right under the footbridge, and it is therefore impossible to cross the tracks without getting a noseful.

You aren't being poisoned you prat. You're inhaling smoke from a cigarette for a few moments, the train pulls up and lets off 10x more fumes from their polluting engine. Get a grip.

I wish people like you were legally obliged to wear a big sticker on their forehead so all smokers could come over and exhale on your clothes. Nu Labour's latest idea?! Hope so.

And I hope I am not the only one who can see the hypocrisy in your signature.

omelette451

spunko2010 wrote: »

You aren't being poisoned you prat. You're inhaling smoke from a cigarette for a few moments, the train pulls up and lets off 10x more fumes from their polluting engine. Get a grip.

We've got electric trains round here, so no fumes or exhaust pipes. Now who's the prat?

goldspanners

omelette451 wrote: »

We've got electric trains round here, so no fumes or exhaust pipes. Now who's the prat?

does virgin trains not run a service through your area then? infact a lot of trains are diesel electric.

robt_2

goldspanners wrote: »

does virgin trains not run a service through your area then? infact a lot of trains are diesel electric.

Read the thread, Merseyrail is what is being talked about - which is 100% electric.

And for the record, Virgin Trains uses electric trains on the route to Liverpool bar two on a Sunday which are diesel, nor do Virgin Trains use a Merseyrail operated station.