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Scotrail keeping the alcohol ban in place for the foreseeable future

https://twitter.com/scotrail/status/...bUeeUXoHITRGkA
I was on a train to Croy last Saturday and there were groups of Rangers and Celtic fans on along with a smaller smattering of Spurs and Norwich fans. Pretty much every group was openly drinking and there wasn't a train guard/manager to be seen.

Not blaming the guard of course. It was a packed train and I wouldn't have fancied being the one to tell them to pack it in (particularly the group of legless Rangers fans who thought aiming a chant about Hitler at Spurs fans was hilarious but that's for another thread).

The point is that it is a ban that will likely be enforced when it's easy to enforce it. A couple of guys or someone on their own with a drink and a quiet word should sort the problem such as it is. The big groups engaging in unacceptable behaviour aren't going to listen to a solitary train manager asking them to stop drinking. In that situation it's unenforceable without Police intervention and how likely is that on a week to week basis? That essentially makes the ban meaningless. The solitary travelers who might have enjoyed a drink to pass the time and kept themselves to themselves will be both the most likely to comply and the easiest to target for enforcement. The groups on their way to football, rugby, gigs or nights out who tend to cause the most disturbance will just continue as they please knowing enforcement and even arrest and prosecution is highly unlikely.