[Shaun]

Originally Posted by BBKing

I somehow gleaned that he was leaning out of the window at a station, otherwise it would be rather difficult to light, I suspect. It's a pretty desperate addiction that forces you to hang out of the window of a moving 125, surely?

Given the number of unstaffed stations, it's a fairly silly extension, since it's fundamentally not enforceable enough to act as a deterrent. For instance, a footbridge not at a station is presumably OK, or a road bridge over a station, or leaning against the station fence or [etc.]. Full of loopholes - at which point does the forecourt become the station - at my local stop they essentially merge into each other with no barrier.

The fact that it's a railway byelaw does let Charlie off, as he wouldn't have been voting on that (we can assume that he's either familiar with the primary smokefree legislation or not doing his job properly, but he might not be familiar with the extent of the simultaneous railway extension).

If you use the trains regularly (which I assume he does) you know they're all non-smoking and have been for a while now. Who was the last to go GNER? There's normally announcements too so there's no excuse.