ScotRail has announced a huge investment to crackdown on staff abuse on Scotland's railways.
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Police officers may write to parents of young people causing trouble in the area in a bid to offer support.
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Clydebank taxi drivers have reacted to the news that stones will be removed from a local train station following a rise in antisocial behaviour in the town.
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Stones will be removed from a local train station following a rise in antisocial behaviour in Clydebank.
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Basic travel etiquette severely lacking among some travellers. We all need to learn to be better passengers. That's my conclusion from several eye-opening experiences travelling across Scotland and England by train and bus over the last month.
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A campaign targeting anti-social behaviour on Tyne and Wear Metro has been launched today, promoting the roll out of a new system for customers to report issues more quickly by sending a discreet text message. The campaign titled not big, not clever, not here is a response to feedback from customers who want to see more done to improve security on the network.
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Cumbria police have been focussing more on anti-social behaviour in the county recently, which has seen public awareness campaigns, more arrests, and on-foot patrols in towns and villages to address local concerns.
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Clydebank is now a priority area for transport cops amid a rise in anti-social behaviour at local stations.
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Security will be deployed on the majority of trains on the Tyne and Wear Metro to provide customer reassurance in the evenings and tackle anti-social behaviour where it arises. It will take the security presence on the Metro network to its highest ever level, with security personnel on board almost every single service from 19:00 every day.
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Train operator, Northern is set to pipe classical music inspired by Handel, Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky into 23 stations across its network as part of measures to deter anti-social behaviour.
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New security gates are to be erected at Queen Street Station as vandals have been ramming through automatic doors and entering during hours of closure.
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Trains operated by Northern were the target of almost 70 dangerous attacks in the last 12 months.
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ScotRail has confirmed the expansion of its Travel Safe Team following the train operators current recruitment drive. ScotRail is actively recruiting 24 Travel Safe Officers, three Travel Safe Supervisors, and one Safeguarding Manager. Once complete, this recruitment will make permanent the current temporary team of nine, adding 19 new posts to make it a team of 28. Following the selection process, ScotRail hopes to begin the phased introduction of the new team members in the autumn.
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A ScotRail worker says he refuses to drive trains through Clydebank to Balloch for fear of his life after gangs of youths commandeered the line.
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A crackdown on anti-social behaviour by football fans and others on trains and buses has been urged by the head of the body which helps co-ordinate 70 per cent of Scotlands public transport journeys.
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Trespass incidents and acts of vandalism on the railways have risen since last year.
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Rail staff could refuse to work on trains to and from Balloch this summer unless anti-social behaviour is curbed by the authorities, a union official has warned.

The RMTs regional organiser for Scotland, Mick Hogg, issued the warning last week and said that rising crime levels mean it could only be a matter of time before a rail worker is seriously injured or killed as a result of thugs using train services.
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High visibility patrols are taking place following a spike in anti-social behaviour.
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Trains overrun by teenagers, drunk or high on drugs; a ScotRail employee chased with a makeshift flame-thrower; another threatened with being stabbed just for asking to see a ticket.
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It comes after a ticket examiner was left traumatised trying to eject brawling teenagers from another ScotRail service last week.
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A ScotRail ticket examiner, confronted by a gang of teenage yobs beating up a boy on her train, alerts British Transport Police.
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The ticket examiner said she feels her safety is being jeopardised every day at work and that its taking its toll on her mental and physical health.
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Vandals have targeted a Highland beauty spot, prompting fears tourists could be put off the area. Nazi signs, foul language, immature drawings as well as ...
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A law banning unruly passengers from ScotRail is being considered by the Scottish Government, transport minister Jenny Gilruth told MSPs today.
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Mick Hogg outlined the need to have a second staff member on every train in Scotland to help improve safety.
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ScotRail is looking at long-term solutions to provide adequate shelter facilities at Burntisland after vandals badly damaged the existing structure.
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The British Transport Police have warned that girls attacking other girls on trains and stations has become a 'consistent trend' on some Glasgow train lines.
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'Be Kind' campaign under way to show that staff are more than just 'uniforms'.
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Unruly youths pose as emerging threat on buses and trains, a Scottish police chief has warned.
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Rail bosses have vowed to tackle anti-social behaviour problems on trains in and out of Largs.
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Patrols on Fife Circle trains have been stepped up after a rise in anti-social behaviour in recent weeks.
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Vandals break into Glasgow Shields Road depot causing approximately £500,000 damage to ScotRail's electric 'blue' trains 303009, 303043, 303080, new electric 'Juniper' trains 334005, 334011, 334032 and diesel train 158729.

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