There’s no doubt the tracks are seriously under scrutinised. There’s nowhere near enough CCTV cameras to monitor any anti-social behaviour and for a country which prides itself on being one of the most scrutinised in the world, this is clearly a very poor state of affairs. Given every double decker bus in the UK has at least 11 CCTV cameras on board, it can’t be beyond anyone’s intelligence to install suitable technology along the Tracks of the Ironmasters.
Private enterprise is due to step in however and rectify the situation: and instead of employing the same tired apparatus that looks like it was invented in 1984, the firm which is thinking about tendering for the rights to scrutinise the tracks are being environmentally sensitive to the nature of the ecology.
Tree-cams; fern-cams, dead mouse cams, horse dung cams and bridge cams can all play their part in scrutinising the public to ensure that the iron masters tracks are kept untainted by errant humans, their dogs, horses and drinking habits.
drnickombe 