Action call after rail attacks rise
The Scotsman: 20 Nov 2006
UNION leaders called today for action to halt a "disturbing" increase in assaults against railway workers after new evidence that official statistics did not show the true scale of the problem.
The Rail Maritime and Transport union said assaults, threats and verbal abuse more than doubled between 2001 and last year to more than 4700 incidents.
There had been a further rise this year, to over 5000, leading to union calls for a ban on alcohol on some services.