A Bristol City councillor is to ask city council leaders if nuclear trains, which pass by Bradley Stoke, are safe.
The issue has been highlighted since The Mirror managed to sneak a fake bomb on to a similar service in London.
Sue O’Donnell will raise the issue at a meeting later this month.
She said: “These trains were built to withstand accidents, but terrorism is a different matter. We should be questioning whether there is a need for them to pass through residential areas at all.”
Bristol West MP Steven Williams is also to raise the issue at Westminster, according to BBC Points West.
Greenpeace has also published timetables for the services in a bid to highlight, they say, how unsafe they are.
The trains travel, twice a week, through Parkway station and through Winterbourne - just a mile from BS32.
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1 Micheal J // Aug 26, 2006 at 8:54 am
I appreciate there may be concerns about this, but would you rather the waste was transported on the Motorway network?
Also, Sue O’Donnell asks whether there is a need to pass through residential areas. Seeing as the railways were built to serve centres of population I wonder what route how she would suggest for the train?
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