You do get sockets for public use on trains alebit only on the good ones.

All this does is emphasise how sh1t the other ones are.

Was he charged?

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With the extortionate prices of train fares these day's there should be a phone vending machine on every station. These should be handing out free a fully charged phone for every punter to use on their journey, job done.

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red and blue till im dead.

it doesn't go into too much detail in the article, except that the reporting officer is a PCSO.

I wouldn't mind betting it went something like this:

1. PCSO flexes muscles and tells bloke to unplug phone, telling him what he's doing is illegal (almost certainly in a condescending tone)

2. bloke gets gobby and refuses in a "you can't make me, I know my rights" 6-year-old kind of way

3. PCSO overreacts and calls it in as an officer needing assistance

4. proper officers intercept the train in response to the assistance call and try to work out what's going on

5. bloke continues with attitude along the lines of "I'm not standing here talking to you - if you want to keep me here you'll have to arrest me"

6. officers left with little choice but to arrest

In short, PCSO and Joe Public need to grow up

I'm remaining neutral on this one

I have prepared one of my own time capsules. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Trains don't generate their own power. They use fuel which they convert to produce power. Plugging in to a trains socket will consume more fuel, which isn't free.