Don’t fence us in
On mainland Europe, I’ve yet to see a single palisade lining a railway, even alongside main lines carrying 14-coach high-speed intercity expresses.
Yet here in Scotland, mile upon successive mile of high-security fences swathes the trackside.
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Hide AdTry the Airdrie to Bathgate line for such unscenic value, or the Perth-Dundee line.
These security fences do nothing at all to create customer attraction, nor railway enhancement.
On the otherwise splendid Borders line, they uglify our new railway.
Gordon Casely
Crathes, Kincardineshire