Should airport-style security be introduced in UK’s railway stations?

Imagine you’re running late for your train. You know the doors will shut 30 seconds before departure – you still have time, you tell yourself.

The thing is, though, you don’t need to be at the platform 30 seconds before – it’s two hours, as you need to get through security first.

Airport security typically involves not only scanning your plane ticket, but also having your bag screened, your body patted down and walking through a metal detector.

And that’s all before you enter the plane; that’s just to get inside the airport. Catching a train, meanwhile, only involves walking into the station and flashing your ticket to staff at the barrier or scanning an e-ticket.

But commentators are calling for the UK’s railway system to introduce airport-style security in light of a knife attack on