A train is hardly out of place on a railway line. It is, however, when it is made of white fabric and attached to the back of a wedding dress.
Network Rail has criticised the “plain stupidity” of a pair of newlyweds who decided to get their post-ceremony photographs taken on a set of live tracks.
The bride and groom posed near Whitby, North Yorkshire, renewing fears that social media is behind a surge in people trespassing on the railways.
Between June and last month people illegally went on to lines 5,100 times, according to figures from Network Rail, the equivalent of 42 incidents a day. Last month 1,239 cases were recorded alone, the worst September in five years.
People are believed to have been
