QUIRKY WORLD: Railway cameras to keep drunks off the tracks

JAPAN: A Japanese railway company is turning to cameras as a way to spot drunken behaviour and keep late-boozing patrons from tumbling onto the tracks, a spokesman said.

West Japan Railways (JR West) has installed nearly 50 closed-circuit television cameras at its Kyobashi train station in Osaka to stop accidents that frequently involve legions of late-drinking “salarymen”.

The suited city workers are well-served by extensive urban train networks that whisk them back home at the end of the night.