WITHIN 200 yards of your office is a fully fledged waterfall. It descends on any passengers leaving or arriving at Blackburn Railway station. Every day it rains, water from a leaking roof falls on the ramp to the platform.
The repair is the responsibility of Railtrack, the company that owns all the tracks and stations. It has been reported many times by station personnel, none of who works for Railtrack.
When I buy a ticket to be told it's not the train operators' responsibility, it is as if I were being leaked on in a restaurant and told I must see the landlord.
If the profit-making Railtrack neglects to repair station leaks that the travelling public can see, what confidence can we have that they are maintaining the tracks on which our safety depends and which are out of sight of the public.
TONY HEYES, Sunny Bower Close, Blackburn.
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