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News: Virgin Trains supports guide dog training

December 4, 2014 • admin
Virgin Trains and the British Transport Police have joined forces to assist a guide dog get acquainted with the railway environment. For most people, getting off and on a train will not be a question of shock and rarely something we pay any attention to. But for someone who’s blind or partially sighted this may prove a damaging and stressful exercise. This is the reason getting off and on trains is a vital step in the course of the training of guide dogs. Skippy is a 14-month-old Labrador guide dog with a slight phobia of high train steps. So as to help his trainer Zoe Aird, BTP Sergeant Jane Evans contacted Virgin Trains and asked if Skippy could spend slightly time practicing getting off and on a train carriage. The...
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News: Emergency vehicle provides faster response to railway incidents

May 14, 2014 • admin
A dedicated police response vehicle is getting used across south and west London to aid reduce disruption to passengers resulting from emergency incidents at the railway. The vehicle, which have been commissioned and funded by the Network Rail and South West Trains Alliance in partnership with British Transport Police, is the 1st of its kind for use full-time and follows successful trials in the course of the Olympics. It allows railway engineers, driven by and accompanied by BTP officers, to get to incidents using blue lights and sirens which helps to minimize response times and reduces the length of delays to passengers. The vehicle is getting used to answer incidents which are causing, or have the capability to cause, disruption at the Wessex route out of London Waterloo and has...
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