"MIG" wrote in message
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Questions rather than answers:

1) If the railways ban smoking from certain premises or trains, is
there some kind of legal force or by-law behind it, such that it would
then be illegal so smoke there?

Its been discussed in uk.railway - it is believed that the existing railway
byelaws already allowed for the extension of the non smoking area to the
whole of stations.

2) Is it stated (however much it might be inferred) that the ban has
anything to do with the recent changes to the law?

SWT for example were, and are now, definitely explaining on signs and with
announcements that the ban is due to government legislation, without
elaboration on how they've extended it (as have others - see below)

I have noticed that other operators have chosen to ban smoking from
all their premises, enclosed or not, to coincide with 1 July. It's
probably a case of burying bad news (unless one finds it good).

I don't think its necessarily been buried, rather the explanation hasn't
been thorough enough. But it is standardised on all Network Rail stations,
don't forget the TOCs are only the station operators, not the owners...

Paul