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‘The violence is off the scale’: staff and passengers at risk as assaults on UK trains soar to record high

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Cases of abuse, spitting, head-butting and sexual harassment, have spiked as transport police numbers have dwindled When a train was halted outside Exeter St Davids station on Monday, rail staff leapt to one conclusion: there had been a violent incid…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:25 UTC.

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