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RAIL ATTACK SENTENCE WELCOMED

11:00 - 08 August 2005

Regional train operator Wessex Trains has urged children not to play around railway tracks as it welcomed a 12-month custodial sentence for a youth following an attack on one of its drivers. On February 28, a train driver from Par depot in Cornwall was injured when a concrete block was thrown from a bridge into his cab window.

The court handed down a 12-month custodial sentence to the 18-year-old responsible for the assault at the beginning of this month.

Alan Wilson, managing director of Wessex Trains, said: "We are very thankful that our driver has now fully recovered and is back to work.

"We welcome this sentencing and hope that it reinforces the message that the railway is not a playground and that all actions have serious consequences."

Some arsehead near Taunton cracked the cab window of the King the other day by throwing stones

I think it was only six months, not twelve, for the b*s*a*d who threw a rock onto a train near Falmouth. Let's hope that his stay isn't too comfortable. Six years would have been more appropriate if the courts took crime more seriously - he could easily have killed the driver and/or others.