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IT'S A DANGEROUS GAME: The children putting lives at risk by playing on railway lines.(Features)

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From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Date: 20020619
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Byline: PAUL BARRY

AS the summer school holidays approach rail companies and the police are urging children to stay away from the tracks - not just to save the lives of the youngsters, but those of passengers and train drivers too.PAUL BARRY reports on some harrowing tales.

MANY artists have captured the glory of the British summer by painting children waving to steam trains passing through green countryside in the sunshine.

It was an image used to great effect in Edith Nesbit's novel The Railway Children, as two sisters and their brother waited daily to wave at the ...

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