Train windows

I have just read about the young man who was killed when leaning out of a train window; evidently the railway company is to be fined £1,000,000. What is the purpose of a fine of this size, or indeed a fine at all? It will be funded by the fare paying public eventually. A terrible tragedy, an accident caused by a moment's thoughtlessness, but surely putting your head out of a moving train window is not something most people would do, and evidently this young man was a train enthusiast and had worked on preservation lines in his spare time. There was a warning notice on the door. You do begin to wonder how far measures must go to warn the public about dangerous possibilities, and how compensation or fines are relevant in a lot of cases.