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Train firm Northern will pipe in CLASSICAL MUSIC on platforms to try and stop anti-social behaviour
05.05.2023 - 12:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It is one of the most moving moments in film. Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano 2 played as the couple in the 1945 movie, Brief Encounter, realise their love is doomed while gazing into each others eyes at a railway station. The station was Carnforth and the actors, Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson.
Wagner hated trains and Mendelssohn said a trip on a locomotive was "agony on the nerves." But Dvorak was a trainspotter and Benjamin Britten wrote the music to a famous and cherished documentary "The Night Mail" capturing a train delivering post across the country.
The Age of Steam which was the setting for Brief Encounter, and inspired and upset some composers is long over. But rail operator Northern thinks this history history musical link might be a clever way of tackling anti-social behaviour on train platforms and stations - playing classical music.
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Northern is set to pipe classical music inspired by Handel, Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky into 23 stations across its network as part of measures to deter anti-social behaviour.
The plan follows a pilot scheme conducted at nine stations across the North of England in the past twelve months (Billingham, Shildon, Heighington, North Road, Orrell, Keighley, Hyde North, Ilkley and Newton Aycliffe) which saw a significant reduction in the number of loitering, graffiti and vandalism-related incidents during the trial.
Music will only be played at certain times of the day, which will vary from station to station to have the best impact on behaviour.
Mark Powles, customer and commercial director, at Northern, said: “Anti-social behaviour is a nuisance in its lightest form and nothing short of a criminal
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