Safer Stations

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TOM ap Rhys Pryce, the talented young solicitor brutally murdered last week, was followed from Kensal Green station, where a mugging had taken place on the platform shortly beforehand. The station is unmanned after 8.45pm.

Those travelling late at night, particularly women, urgently want to see a reassuring staff presence in the evening. Almost all Tube stations are staffed at night. However, those 14 or so Tube stations which are shared with and operated by mainline train companies are empty in mid to late evening.

Silverlink, the rail operator serving Kensal Green and most of the other Tube/rail stations, washed its hands of the problem in a statement this …