Date: 21/07/2019

Historic steam trains - like the 'Harry Potter' Jacobite Express in Scotland - could be forced off the tracks unless they fork out millions to comply with tough new health and safety laws, a railway boss has warned. Heritage railway companies have been ordered to place bars over the drop-down windows of their 1950s-built Mark I former British Rail carriages to prevent excited passengers leaning out to take photographs while trains are moving. The new safety measures were ordered by regulator the ORR (Office of Rail and Road) following the tragic death of a railway commuter in 2016 on the Gatwick Express.

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Steam trains could be forced off the tracks by new tougher safety rules, heritage railway boss warns

Telegraph

Historic steam trains - like the "Harry Potter" Jacobite Express in Scotland - could be forced off the tracks unless they fork out millions to comply with tough new health and safety laws, a railway boss has warned.