Couples will often go to great lengths for a truly unique wedding photo, but some locations are a step too far. A British couple learned this the hard way and is now under fire for posing on live train tracks in North Yorkshire.
The unidentified couple is now unwillingly the face of a new campaign to educate people on rail safety.
In a Twitter post, the national Network Rail in Scotland called the photoshoot ‘plain stupidity’, and urged residents to practice basic rail safety at all times.
Plain stupidity. We can’t make it clearer.
Please, make sure you know the rail safety basics and pass that knowledge onto your loved ones. Lead by example and stay off the tracks. No ifs, no buts – no tears.https://t.co/tm5kBcRdnq pic.twitter.com/M7hkpL05Lu
— Network Rail Scotland (@NetworkRailSCOT) October 20, 2020
British Transport Police Superintendent Alison Evans explains that anyone walking across a railway line is putting themselves in danger.
“Every time someone strays onto the rail network they are not only putting themselves at risk of serious, life-threatening injury but also delaying essential journeys.
“Passenger and freight trains are still using the railway 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing much-needed services of transporting people and goods. Please, stay off the track”.
According to Network Rail and British Transport Police, there have been 5100 trespassing incidents over their summer months, and 1239 incidents recorded in September, their worst recorded month in the last five years.
Picture: Twitter / Network Rail Scotland
